United States Secretary of Health and Human Services

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Dept. of Health and Human Services

Established:	1953
Activated:	May 4, 1980
Secretary:	Michael O. Leavitt
Deputy Secretary:	Alex Azar
Surgeon General:	Richard Carmona
Budget:	Discretionary: .2 billion (2006) Mandatory: 3.5 billion (2006)
Employees:	67, 000 (2004)
Address:	200 Independence Avenue, S.W. Washington, D.C. 20201

The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Until 1979, there was one Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, uniting this department with the Department of Education, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Education.

Chronological list

Name	Term of Office	President(s) served under
Patricia Roberts Harris	August 3, 1979 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
Richard Schultz Schweiker	January 22, 1981 - February 3, 1983	Ronald Reagan
Margaret Heckler	March 9, 1983 - December 13, 1985	Ronald Reagan
Otis R. Bowen	December 13, 1985 - January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
Louis Wade Sullivan	March 1, 1989 - January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
Donna Edna Shalala	January 22, 1993 - January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
Tommy George Thompson	February 2, 2001 - January 26, 2005	George W. Bush
Michael Orkerlund Leavitt	January 26, 2005 – present	George W. Bush

 

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