Know Dr Vivek Murthy; The Indian-American who will co-chair Biden’s Covid task force

Dr Vivek Murthy is an Indian-American who will co-chair the coronavirus task force that US President-elect Joe Biden is set to announce Monday as his first core policy step towards fighting the pandemic. Also Read | UK to honour 21 heroes of Saragarhi who killed 200 with 9-ft bronze statue

Biden deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield stated that former surgeon general Vivek Murthy, 43, will chair the Covid-19 task force with David Kessler, a former Food and Drug Administration commissioner.

Murthy's family hails from Karnataka, he received his Bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, and pursued MD and MBA from Yale University. He completed his internal medicine residency at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and later joined the Harvard Medical School as faculty in internal medicine. Also Read | BigBasket Data breach: Details of 2 crore users leaked, company files complaint in Bengaluru He served as the 19th surgeon general under the Barack Obama administration from 15 December 2014 to 21 April 2017. He was later asked to step down by the Trump administration.  During his term as the surgeon general, Murthy had helped produce a report on how climate change has brought about a public health crisis. -PTC News