Gayle Smith speaks after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced her appointment as the new State Department Coordinator for Global COVID Response and Health Security on Monday, April 5, 2021. Alexander Drago/Pool/AFP/Getty ImagesThe Biden administration has tapped Gayle Smith, who helped lead the Obama administration’s Ebola response, to serve as the coordinator for Global Covid Response and Health Security, Secretary of State Tony Blinken announced in remarks Monday that failed to offer concrete details about US plans to share vaccines with international partners. Smith, who served in the Obama and Clinton administrations and leads the ONE Campaign, a global anti-disease and anti-poverty organization, said she faces two challenges. And the second is to ensure that we can prevent, detect, and respond to those future global health threats we know are coming. The ONE Campaign said Smith is “on temporary assignment to the State Department."

Source: CNN April 05, 2021 20:20 UTC