New York’s new state health commissioner stepped into the role Wednesday, at a time when COVID-19 hospitalizations are on the rise in the state.
Mary Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner, spent 17 years developing AIDS prevention programs in Zimbabwe. She’s currently director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard University and a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
She replaces Howard Zucker, a key figure in former Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s pandemic response.
Zucker resigned in September after facing backlash for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, including the Cuomo administration’s decision to downplay the extent of
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