Vivek Murthy

Vivek Murthy
Vivek Murthy
	Official portrait, 2022
19th and 21st Surgeon General of the United States
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; March 25, 2021
President	Joe Biden
Deputy	Erica Schwartz; Denise Hinton
Preceded by	Jerome Adams
	In office; December 18, 2014 – April 21, 2017
President	Barack Obama; Donald Trump
Deputy	Sylvia Trent-Adams
Preceded by	Regina Benjamin
Succeeded by	Jerome Adams
Co-Chair of the COVID-19 Advisory Board
	In office; November 9, 2020 – January 20, 2021 Serving with David A. Kessler, Marcella Nunez-Smith
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Position abolished
Personal details
Born	Vivek Hallegere Murthy; July 10, 1977; Huddersfield, England
Political party	Democratic
Spouse	Alice Chen (m. 2015)
Children	2
Education	Harvard University (BA); Yale University (MD, MBA)
Awards	Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship
Uniformed service
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	U.S. Public Health Service Commissoned Corps
Years of service	2014–2017; 2021–present
Rank	Vice Admiral

Vivek Hallegere Murthy (born July 10, 1977) is an American physician and a vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps who has served as the 19th and 21st surgeon general of the United States under Presidents Obama, Trump, and Biden. Murthy is the first surgeon general of Indian descent, and, during his first term as surgeon general, he was the youngest active duty flag officer in federal uniformed service.

Murthy co-chaired President-elect Joe Biden's COVID-19 Advisory Board from November 2020 to January 2021, alongside former Food and Drug Administration commissioner David A. Kessler and Yale public health professor Marcella Nunez-Smith. On December 7, Biden announced Murthy would return to the role of U.S. surgeon general. The United States Senate confirmed Murthy to the role on March 23, 2021, by a vote of 57–43. In October 2022, Biden nominated Murthy to be the U.S. representative on the World Health Organization's executive board.

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