Prime example of a missing Surgeon General. This is a national emergency and Congress needs to return to DC. The Director of the CDC is filling in for someone who should have been making policy all along. This is tragic. All this could have been avoided.
The current nominee has exceptional credentials. Given the urgency of the need for a policy author it would take too much time to seek anyone else with the same qualifications.
In 2011 Dr. Murthy served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was ready for Surgeon General.
...Sure he has an impressive resume. (click here) Undergrad at Harvard. Yale MD/MBA program. Co-founder and president of Doctors for America. But we asked ourselves, what else does the young doctor do when he’s not busy saving lives at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaching at Harvard? His Facebook page tells us he enjoys listening to U2, hip-hop and Enya, as well as watching Glee, but what else should you know about him? Here’s what we found out....
...He pays it forward. Murthy was born in England, but his family immigrated to Miami, Florida, when he was just three years old. His father grew up in Hallegere village in the Mandya District of Karnataka in southern India. As a young undergraduate at Harvard, Murthy co-founded VISIONS Worldwide, Inc., a nonprofit organization that organized HIV/AIDS preventive education and empowerment programs in India and the United States. Two years later, he also co-founded Swasthya, a community health partnership to promote basic health education, clinical care, and social support in Sringeri, India....
He has done all this before. He is more qualified to handle Ebola and increase the expertise for a Third World victory over this deadly disease. The global community needs someone who can get this done and he is the most qualified.
The current nominee has exceptional credentials. Given the urgency of the need for a policy author it would take too much time to seek anyone else with the same qualifications.
In 2011 Dr. Murthy served on the U.S. Presidential Advisory Council on Prevention, Health Promotion, and Integrative and Public Health within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He was ready for Surgeon General.
...Sure he has an impressive resume. (click here) Undergrad at Harvard. Yale MD/MBA program. Co-founder and president of Doctors for America. But we asked ourselves, what else does the young doctor do when he’s not busy saving lives at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and teaching at Harvard? His Facebook page tells us he enjoys listening to U2, hip-hop and Enya, as well as watching Glee, but what else should you know about him? Here’s what we found out....
...He pays it forward. Murthy was born in England, but his family immigrated to Miami, Florida, when he was just three years old. His father grew up in Hallegere village in the Mandya District of Karnataka in southern India. As a young undergraduate at Harvard, Murthy co-founded VISIONS Worldwide, Inc., a nonprofit organization that organized HIV/AIDS preventive education and empowerment programs in India and the United States. Two years later, he also co-founded Swasthya, a community health partnership to promote basic health education, clinical care, and social support in Sringeri, India....
He has done all this before. He is more qualified to handle Ebola and increase the expertise for a Third World victory over this deadly disease. The global community needs someone who can get this done and he is the most qualified.
