| Newton MA News and Politics Blog

Congratulations to Newton doctor Atul Gawande on his appointment to President-elect Joe Biden’s COVID Task Force. Gawande  is a surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a professor at Harvard Medical School and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as a staff writer for The New Yorker magazine.  He previously served as a senior advisor in the Department of Health and Human Services in the Clinton Administration.

The COVID-19 Advisory Board is a team of leading public health experts who will advise Biden and his transition team,