United States Secretary of Health and Human Services facts for kids

United States; Secretary of Health and Human Services
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	Incumbent; Sylvia Mathews Burwell; since June 9, 2014
Formation	August 3, 1979
First holder	Patricia Roberts Harris
Succession	Twelfth
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The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Chronological list

No.	Name	Portrait	Took Office	Left Office	President served under	Notable for
1	Patricia Roberts Harris	N/A	August 3, 1979	January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter	The first Secretary of Health and Human Services and first African-American woman to hold a cabinet position
2	Richard Schultz Schweiker		January 22, 1981	February 3, 1983	Ronald Reagan
3	Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler		March 9, 1983	December 13, 1985
4	Otis Ray Bowen		December 13, 1985	January 20, 1989		The first physician to become Secretary of Health and Human Services
5	Louis Wade Sullivan		March 1, 1989	January 20, 1993	George H. W. Bush
6	Donna Edna Shalala		January 22, 1993	January 20, 2001	Bill Clinton
7	Tommy George Thompson		February 2, 2001	January 26, 2005	George W. Bush	The first Secretary of Health and Human Services since the beginning of the War on Terrorism
8	Michael Okerlund Leavitt		January 26, 2005	January 20, 2009	George W. Bush
9	Kathleen Sebelius		April 28, 2009	June 9, 2014	Barack Obama
10	Sylvia Mathews Burwell		June 9, 2014	present	Barack Obama

The flag of the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, the predecessor to the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
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A gathering of five secretaries in June 2015