Rahul Gupta is the nominee for Director of National Drug Control Policy, United States.
Washington:
President Joe Biden on Tuesday (local time) announced his intent to nominate 11 individuals including two Indian-Americans to serve in key roles.
As per the White House statement, the nominated persons are - Gabe Camarillo, Alan Estevez, Jeff Lane Flake, Kent Doyle Logsdon, Lisa Wang, Chester John Culver, Rich Trumka Jr, James A Diossa, Terrence K Wright; with two Indian-Americans Rahul Gupta and Atul Gawande.
Rahul Gupta is the nominee for Director of National Drug Control Policy, while Atul Gawande is the nominee for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development.
Atul Gawande has four New York Times best-selling books to his credit.
Washington:
US President Joe Biden intends to nominate Indian-American surgeon and popular author Atul Gawande to a senior leadership position in the US Agency for International Development (USAID).
According to the White House, Biden intends to nominate Gawande for Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, USAID.
Atul Gawande has four New York Times best-selling books to his credit Complications, Better, The Checklist Manifesto, and Being Mortal. I m honored to be nominated to lead global health development at USAID, including for COVID. With more COVID deaths worldwide in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020, I m grateful for the chance to help end this crisis and to re-strengthen public health systems worldwide, Atul Gawande said in a tweet.
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Biden’s clean energy plan would cut emissions and save 317,000 lives Source: By Oliver Milman, The Guardian • Posted: Monday, July 12, 2021
A new report has found that a policy standard would be most effective to reach the goal of 80% renewable energy use by 2030
A plan to force the rapid uptake of renewable energy would swiftly cut planet-heating emissions and save hundreds of thousands of lives from deadly air pollution, a new report has found amid growing pressure on the White House to deliver a major blow against the climate crisis.
Of various climate policy options available to the new administration, a clean energy standard would provide the largest net benefits to the US, according to the report, in terms of costs as well as lives saved.