Howard Koh

The Senate confirmed Dr. Howard Koh’s appointment as the 14th assistant secretary for health at HHS in 2009. The 60-year-old Koh came from the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, where he served as director of the division of public health practice, associate dean for public health practice and as the Harvey V. Fineberg professor of the practice of public health. From 1997 to 2003, Koh served as commissioner of public health for Massachusetts.