UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

'Dept. of Health and Human Services'

Logo of the Department of Health and Human Services
'Established:'	1953
'Activated:'	May 4, 1980
'Secretary:'	Michael O. Leavitt
'Deputy Secretary:'	Alex Azar
'Assistant Secretary for Health:'	ADM John O. Agwunobi
'Surgeon General:'	RADM Kenneth P. Moritsugu (Acting)
'Budget:'	Discretionary: $67.2 billion (2006) Mandatory: $573.5 billion (2006)
'Employees:'	67, 000 (2004)
'Address:'	200 Independence Avenue, S.W.Washington, D.C. 20201

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.
Until 1979, there was one Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, uniting this department with the Department of Education, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Education.

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Chronological list

Chronological list

No.	Name	Portrait	Term of Office	President(s) served under
1	Patricia Roberts Harris		August 3, 1979 - January 20, 1981	Jimmy Carter
2	Richard Schultz Schweiker		January 22, 1981 - February 3, 1983	Ronald Reagan
3	Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler		March 9, 1983 - December 13, 1985	Ronald Reagan
4	Otis Ray Bowen		December 13, 1985 - January 20, 1989	Ronald Reagan
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
8	Michael Okerlund Leavitt		January 26, 2005 – present	George W. Bush