COVID-19 Advisory Board

COVID-19 Advisory Board
COVID-19 Advisory Board
Agency overview
Formed	November 2020
Dissolved	January 20, 2021
Jurisdiction	United States
Agency executives	Joe Biden, President of the United States ; Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States; Co-chairs, David A. Kessler ; Vivek Murthy ; Marcella Nunez-Smith
Website
	buildbackbetter.gov archived[2024][final]

The COVID-19 Advisory Board was announced in November 2020 by then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition.

It is co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts.

The goal of the advisory board is to create ideas and rules on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States during Biden's transition period. The board was dissolved when Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021 and was replaced with the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

Members

	Role	Education	Appointment
David A. Kessler	Former Commissioner of Food and Drugs Co-chair	Amherst College (BA) University of Chicago (JD) Harvard University (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Marcella Nunez-Smith	Yale School of Medicine associate dean for health equity research Co-chair	Swarthmore College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Vivek Murthy	Former Surgeon General of the United States Co-chair	Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MD, MBA)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Luciana Borio	Former Acting Chief Scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration	George Washington University (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Rick Bright	Former Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority	University of Kansas Auburn University, Montgomery (BS) Emory University (MS, PhD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Zeke Emanuel	Former Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center	Amherst College (BA) Exeter College, Oxford (MS) Harvard University (MD, PhD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Atul Gawande	Brigham and Women's Hospital professor of surgery	Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Celine Gounder	New York University School of Medicine assistant professor	Princeton University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MS) University of Washington, Seattle (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Julie Morita	Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (BS) University of Illinois College of Medicine, (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Michael Osterholm	Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy	Luther College (BA) University of Minnesota (MS, MPH, PhD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Loyce Pace	Executive Director and President of the Global Health Council	Stanford University (BS) Johns Hopkins University (MPH)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Robert Rodriguez	UCSF School of Medicine emergency medicine professor	University of Notre Dame (BA) Harvard University (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]
Eric Goosby	Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator	Princeton University (BA) University of California, San Francisco (MD)	November 9, 2020^[3]