Washington: US President Joe Biden announced nominated 11 individuals including two Indo – Americans to serve in key roles in his Government. The White House in a statement on Tuesday said that 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 Director of National Drug Control Policy and Atul Gawande is the Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, United States Agency for International Development. Rahul Gupta is a national and global thought leader and a driver of innovative public policies on health issues.

Dr Gupta serves as an advisor to several organizations and task forces on local, national and international public health policy. He also led the development of the State’s Zika action plan and its preparedness efforts during the Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak.

Atul Gawande is also founder and chair of Ariadne Labs, a joint center for health systems innovation at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, and of Lifebox, a nonprofit organization making surgery safer globally. During the Covid – 19 pandemic, he Co-founded CIC Health, which operates Covid – 19 testing and vaccination nationally, and served as a member of the Biden transition Covid – 19 Advisory Board.