DHHS, Doj, VA, HUD Transition Leadership

By John Reichard, CQ HealthBeat Editor in The Commonwealth Fund Washington Health Policy Week in Review

Overseeing transition activities for the departments of Justice, Health and Human Services, Veterans Affairs, and Housing and Urban Development is Tom Perez, currently secretary of the Maryland Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation. He held various civil rights posts at the Justice Department during the Clinton administration and was director of the Office for Civil Rights at HHS under Shalala. From 2001 until last year, he was an assistant professor of law at the University of Maryland. He currently is an adjunct faculty member at the George Washington School of Public Health.
Named as a transition leader for bioethics issue was Jonathan D. Moreno, professor of medical ethics at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a visiting professor of biomedical ethics at the University of Virginia.