Tweet Photo: Daniel Meigs The White House announced Wednesday morning that Dr. James Hildreth, president of Nashville's Meharry Medical College, will join the Biden administration's 12-member Health Equity Task Force. The Harvard alum and infectious disease expert has been at the forefront of Nashville's COVID-19 response in recent months. "As the President of a historically Black medical school that was founded to eradicate health disparities between majority and minority communities, this work is a focus for me and my institution," says Dr. Hildreth in a statement. "I am committed to working with our national leadership to develop cohesive plans that will address these silent killers — illnesses like COVID-19 that impact our most vulnerable populations at alarming rates."