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Alex Azar is an American attorney, businessman, and former pharmaceutical executive who served as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021. He was also chairman of the White House Coronavirus Task Force in 2020 and deputy secretary of HHS under George W. Bush.
Jan 16, 2021 · Alex Azar, the Health and Human Services Secretary, resigned Friday evening. He cited the violent Capitol riot inflamed by President Trump, which left several dead or injured, in his...
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Jan 15, 2021 · Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar has turned in a resignation letter in which he complains about a tarnished legacy for his department and the administration after riots in the...
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Seminar moderator LDI Senior Fellow and Perelman School of Medicine Professor Kevin Volpp, pointed out that the audience was keenly interested in hearing more about Azar’s role in Operation Warp Speed because so much of the research and development behind the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines was done by Penn faculty researcherswho licensed the technologies t...
“I had a call at the end of March with Johnson & Johnson (J&J) because we were putting half a billion dollars in, and J&J was putting half a billion dollars in to get a vaccine going there. I asked when will we get vaccine? How much vaccine do we get for this half a billion dollars? ‘No, that’s not part of the deal,’ I was told. What price would we...
“We had one instance where when you’re pouring out of the bioreactor through a filter to do the filtration, it created a foam that created a hydrostatic barrier back up of the filter and ruined a whole lot. And these are the world’s leading manufacturing people, and they don’t know why that happens. You can’t predict it in advance. So, so much abou...
“And Esper was right. We have a lot of smart people at HHS, but the agency is not known for logistics, operations, procurement, moving freight and things like that. That’s not the core expertise. So, he committed all resources of the DOD, and I committed HHS, and we formed a partnership to do this. We needed to have the right people leading this an...
“We ended up deciding to invest in six molecules, six vaccines across three different platforms. So, we had the old standby traditional measles vaccine kind of platform, which would be protein sub unit vaccines, where you basically get the part of the protein that will cause the body to produce antibodies. And then in the bioreactor, you replicate ...
“Working with the Defense Department through all of this was just so remarkable. If we had an outbreak in Seattle and we didn’t have a clinical trial site there, the DOD could get us stood up within days. We would just move from Nashville to Seattle and start phase III trials there because we could chase the disease burden. It was impressive to see...
Former HHS Secretary Alex Azar recounts how he launched and led the COVID-19 vaccine project that produced emergency-use approval in record time. He explains how he overcame the challenges of industry, manufacturing, and regulation to achieve his biggest achievement in life.
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Jan 16, 2021 · Azar submitted his resignation letter on January 12, but plans to stay until January 20 to help the transition to Biden's team. He praised the HHS's achievements in the pandemic and the vaccine development, but criticized Trump's attacks on democracy.
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Jan 24, 2018 · The Senate voted 55-43 on Wednesday to confirm the nomination of Azar, the former head of pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly’s U.S. operations, to serve in the role vacated by Tom Price, M.D.
Jan 24, 2018 · Alex Azar, former president of the U.S. arm of Eli Lilly & Co., was confirmed Wednesday as the secretary of health and human services. In that role, he'll oversee the...
