11 Black Women To Know In Obama’s Cabinet
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Margaret Hamburg
Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration
Hamburg is the second woman and the first African-American to be nominated as the Commissioner of the FDA, under which she regulates food safety, pharmaceutical drugs, vaccines and other public health concerns. She previously served as New York City’s health commissioner and is recognized for her accomplishments in improving services for women and children, her needle-exchange programs to reduce the spread of HIV and the initiation of the first public health bio-terrorism defense program in the nation. But she is most celebrated for curbing the spread of tuberculosis by 46 percent in New York City over a five-year time span in the 1990s.
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