He’s one of several advisers the Biden team added to its coronavirus team on Friday.
Former Food and Drug Commissioner David Kessler, who served presidents from both parties in 1990-1997, will serve as Mr. Biden’s chief science adviser for the COVID-19 response.
Abbe Gluck, a prominent Yale law professor with government experience in New Jersey and New York City, will serve as general counsel.
The Biden team also added several new policy advisers and communications pros including Ben Wakana, a former spokesman for the Obama Department of Health and Human Services who later served as executive director of the Patients For Affordable Drugs, a nonprofit that pressured lawmakers to drive down the cost of prescription medicines.
UVa physician Cameron Webb joins Biden White House COVID team Photo: WINA
CHARLOTTSVILLE (WINA) – UVa physician and former 5th District Congressional candidate Dr. Cameron Webb is joining President-elect Biden’s White House COVID Response Team. Webb is no stranger to the White House since he worked as a White House Fellow in the Obama Administration in 2016 and through the transition to the Trump Administration. After that, he joined the UVa faculty where he has been an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences, and as director of health policy and equity at the UVa medical school.
Webb will be Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity on the new White House COVID team.