COVID-19 Advisory Board

The **COVID-19 Advisory Board** was announced in November 2020 by then President-elect of the United States Joe Biden as part of his presidential transition.

It is co-chaired by physicians David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith, and Vivek Murthy and comprises 13 health experts.

The goal of the advisory board is to create ideas and rules on how to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States during Biden's transition period. The board was dissolved when Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021 and was replaced with the White House COVID-19 Response Team.

## Members

|scope="col" colspan="2"|Member|Role|Education|Appointment||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|data-sort-value="Kessler, David A."||David A. Kessler|Former Commissioner of Food and Drugs **Co-chair**|Amherst College (BA) University of Chicago (JD) Harvard University (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Nunez-Smith, Marcella"||Marcella Nunez-Smith|Yale School of Medicine associate dean for health equity research **Co-chair**|Swarthmore College (BA) Thomas Jefferson University (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Murthy, Vivek"||Vivek Murthy|Former Surgeon General of the United States **Co-chair**|Harvard University (BA) Yale University (MD, MBA)||
|data-sort-value="Borio, Luciana"||Luciana Borio|Former Acting Chief Scientist of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration|George Washington University (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Bright, Rick"||Rick Bright|Former Director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority|University of Kansas Auburn University, Montgomery (BS) Emory University (MS, PhD)||
|data-sort-value="Emanuel, Zeke" style="text-align: center;"||Zeke Emanuel|Former Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center|Amherst College (BA) Exeter College, Oxford (MS) Harvard University (MD, PhD)||
|data-sort-value="Gawande, Atul"||Atul Gawande|Brigham and Women's Hospital professor of surgery|Stanford University (BA, BS) Balliol College, Oxford (MA) Harvard University (MD, MPH)||
|data-sort-value="Grounder, Celine"||Celine Gounder|New York University School of Medicine assistant professor|Princeton University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MS) University of Washington, Seattle (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Morita, Julie"||Julie Morita|Executive Vice President of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, (BS) University of Illinois College of Medicine, (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Osterholm, Michael"||Michael Osterholm|Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy|Luther College (BA) University of Minnesota  (MS, MPH, PhD)||
|data-sort-value="Pace, Loyce"||Loyce Pace|Executive Director and President of the Global Health Council|Stanford University (BS) Johns Hopkins University (MPH)||
|data-sort-value="Rodriguez, Robert"||Robert Rodriguez|UCSF School of Medicine emergency medicine professor|University of Notre Dame (BA) Harvard University (MD)||
|data-sort-value="Goosby, Eric" style="text-align: center;"||Eric Goosby|Former United States Global AIDS Coordinator|Princeton University (BA) University of California, San Francisco (MD)||

## Infobox (government agency)

- **name**: COVID-19 Advisory Board
- **jurisdiction**: United States
- **image**: Seal of the President of the United States.svg
- **image size**: 140px
- **image caption**: Seal of the President of the United States Joe Biden
- **formed**: November 2020
- **dissolved**: January 20, 2021
- **superseding1**: White House COVID-19 Response Team
- **agency type**: Advisory board
- **chief1 position**: President of the United States
- **chief1 name**: Joe Biden
- **chief2 position**: Vice President of the United States
- **chief2 name**: Kamala Harris
- **chief3 name**: Co-chairs
- **chief3 position**: David A. Kessler
 Vivek Murthy
 Marcella Nunez-Smith
- **website**: archived