U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
Margaret A. Hamburg, Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
The Department of Health and Human Services is the U.S.Government’s principal agency for protecting the health of allAmericans and providing essential human services. The AssistantSecretary for Planning and Evaluation is the principal advisorto the Secretary on policy development, and is responsible formajor activities in the areas of policy coordination, legislationdevelopment, strategic planning, policy research and evaluation,and economic analysis. Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D. assumed the positionin 1997. Dr. Hamburg joined HHS in June 1990 as Deputy Commissionerfor Family Health Services. Prior to that she was Assistant Directorof the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.She also spent nearly six years as…
