Angela Mattie
The secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, plays a significant role in every American’s access to health care and in the nation’s overall well-being.
Under the secretary’s leadership, the multiple agencies that constitute HHS oversee the financing of Medicare and Medicaid, conduct research to improve care quality, monitor health care fraud and abuse, and respond to pandemics.
I am a scholar of health care policy and former Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellow on the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. In my time as a fellow from 2000 to 2001, I witnessed how significant the HHS secretary’s role is in protecting and preserving the health of our nation.
The secretary’s direction influences America’s ability to prepare for health threats, take up childhood vaccines, enhance the water supply, and a host of other public health measures. Understanding how the department and its leader influences the health of the U.S. is especially important in today’s environment of...
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