More recently, Donna Shalala came to the job after serving as chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She returned to academia to helm the University of Miami, and in 2018, she ran for Congress and was elected to represent Florida’s 27th District. (Shalala lost her seat in 2020.) Sylvia Mathews Burwell was the head of the White House Office of Management and Budget prior to her tenure at HHS and is now president of American University. The incumbent secretary, Alex Azar, served as general counsel and deputy secretary of the department in President George W. Bush’s administration and then was president of the US division of drug maker Eli Lilly and Company.
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