Speaker
Secretary Alex Azar
Secretary Alex M. Azar II
Alex Azar served as the 24th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) from 2018 to 2021, leading over 85,000 employees with a budget of more than $1.4 trillion—the largest budget of any cabinet department in the world. He has extensive healthcare experience in the senior-most levels of the U.S. government as well as the private sector, and has devoted the entirety of his career to protecting and enhancing the health of all Americans.  Among his many health initiatives, Secretary Azar has made a tremendous impact on kidney care and kidney patients across the country. After witn