Weeks after naming Nigeria’s Adewale Adeyemo as the deputy treasury secretary, US president-elect Joe Biden has appointed Nigerian-born Osaremen Okolo as one of his advisers on COVID-19.
Okolo, who is a daughter of Nigerian immigrants, was appointed on Thursday, December 31, as one of the members of the Biden-Harris COVID-19 response team.
With her appointment, the Nigerian-born American becomes one of the first 100 White House appointees that will work with the president-elect when he finally takes over the Oval Office on January 20.
Background
Okolo was born by Nigerian parents and raised in Massachusetts. She graduated from Harvard College in May 2017.
She concentrated primarily in the history of science (medicine and society focus) with an allied, joint concentration in African-American studies. She also obtained a secondary in Global Health and Health Policy.
According to The Street Journal, the Democrat served as a senior health policy adviser to U.S. Representative Jan Schakowsky of Illinois.
While working for Schakowsky, she drafted, negotiated, and managed the Congresswoman’s legislation, oversight, and policy across comprehensive health care and public health agenda.
Outside of all things health, Okolo spends time writing creatively, fanatically cheering on her Boston sports teams and loves Nigerian food.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng reported that Joe Biden received a dose of COVID-19 vaccine on live TV to build confidence in the newly developed vaccine among the US citizens.
Biden joined a list of other top leaders in the US who have taken the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine among the outgoing vice president Mike Pence and speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Through a post on his Twitter handle on Monday, December 21, night, Biden said he decided to take the vaccine on live TV to show Americans the jab was safe to take.
Source: LegitNG
