拜登宣佈醫衛團隊名單

Biden announces health team

拜登宣佈醫衛團隊名單

US president-elect Joe Biden announced some nominations and appointments to his health team on Monday. In a release, Biden said he's nominating Xavier Becerra, attorney general of California, for Secretary of Health and Human Services.

美國當選總統拜登12月7日宣佈了醫衛團隊擬任名單，擬提名加州司法部長澤維爾·貝塞拉出任美國衛生與公衆服務部長。如果提名獲參議院批准，貝塞拉將成爲首位擔任衛生與公衆服務部長的拉丁裔美國人。

If confirmed, Becerra, a former US congressman from California, will be the first Latino to lead the Department of Health and Human Services.

貝塞拉在擔任加州司法部長前，曾擔任國會議員。

Anthony Fauci, a preeminent US expert on infectious diseases and an adviser to six US presidents, will serve as chief medical adviser on COVID-19 to Biden and continue in his role as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

安東尼·福奇將擔任拜登的應對新冠疫情首席醫療顧問，並繼續兼任美國國家過敏症和傳染病研究所所長。福奇是美國著名傳染病專家，已爲6位總統提供公共衛生政策諮詢。

Meanwhile, Biden said he has tapped Vivek Murthy to serve as US surgeon general, a post the research scientist held between 2014 and 2017, and picked Rochelle Walensky, chief of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

另外，拜登還提名研究科學家維瓦克·默希出任美國公共衛生局局長，他曾於2014年至2017年擔任該職務。麻省總醫院傳染病學主任、哈佛醫學院醫學教授羅謝爾·瓦倫斯基獲提名出任美國疾病控制和預防中心主任。