Crossing Divides: A Conversation with Former U.S. Secretaries Alex Azar ’91 and Donna Shalala

Alex Azar II ’91 served as secretary of U.S. Health and Human Services from 2018 to 2021, spearheading the department’s COVID-19 response and overseeing Operation Warp Speed, the public-private partnership to expedite COVID-19 vaccines. Donna Shalala, the longest-serving HHS secretary, from 1993 to 2001, worked to create, implement and oversee the Children’s Health Insurance Program and helped raise childhood immunization rates to record levels.

Please join Megan Ranney, Dean of the Yale School of Public Health, in conversation with Secretaries Azar and Shalala to discuss healthcare policy, public health challenges, their experiences in office, and their friendship across political parties.