Trump taps biotech investor Jim O'Neill for HHS deputy secretary

President-elect Trump has nominated biotech investor Jim O’Neill for deputy secretary of the Health and Human Services department.

The HHS deputy secretary oversees the day-to-day operations of all sub-agencies, whose missions include running the Medicare and Medicaid program, leading public health emergency preparedness, shaping federal research, and more. O’Neill would also oversee the development and clearance of HHS regulations, and work under Trump’s pick for HHS secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 

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