Trump Chooses Women’s Health Leader for Acting HHS Secretary

President Donald Trump has named Dr. Dorothy Fink as acting secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services.

Fink comes to the role after leading the HHS’ Office on Women’s Health and is a physician with expertise in estrogen, menopause, diabetes, and bone health. Trump announced her role as part of a broader executive order on acting administration leaders.

Fink assumes the acting leadership role following the tenure of former President Joe Biden’s HHS secretary, Xavier Becerra, under whom the agency negotiated with drugmakers for lower prices for Medicare products and issued civil rights rules on transgender health ...