Webb to serve on White House COVID-19 Response Team as Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity
WASHINGTON (CBS19 NEWS) -- Dr. Cameron Webb will serve on the White House COVID-19 Response Team as the Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity.
He will join a team of experts to implement a COVID-19 response plan at the federal level.
The announcement was made Friday morning in a press release from the transition website for President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris.
Webb currently serves as an assistant professor of medicine and public health sciences at the University of Virginia School of Medicine.
Webb was recently defeated in Virginia's Fifth Congressional District election by Representative Bob Good.
The following on Webb from the release:
B. Cameron Webb, Senior Policy Advisor for COVID-19 Equity
Dr. B. Cameron Webb currently serves as Assistant Professor of Medicine and Public Health Sciences, and as Director of Health Policy and Equity at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. A general internist, Dr. Webb has worked clinically in the University’s COVID unit since the beginning of the pandemic. Additionally, he is the founding director of UVA’s Health Equity, Law and Policy Research (HELPR) Laboratory and is a core faculty member at the University’s Equity Center, an initiative for the redress of inequity through community-engaged scholarship. Prior to joining the faculty at UVA, Dr. Webb spent a year as a 2016 White House Fellow in the Obama-Biden Administration’s Office of Cabinet Affairs, where he served on the My Brother’s Keeper task force and the White House Healthcare team. Dr. Webb received his B.A. from the University of Virginia, his M.D. from Wake Forest School of Medicine, and his J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law.