Donna Shalala
Donna Shalala
Donna Edna Shalalawas the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services under President Bill Clinton from 1993 to 2001. She was the president of the University of Miami, a private university in Coral Gables, Florida, from 2001 through 2015. Previously, she was the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison from 1988 to 1993. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, by President George W. Bush in June 2008. Shalala currently serves as the...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPublic Servant
Date of Birth14 February 1941
CountryUnited States of America
Comprehensive protection of personal medical records is what Congress called for in the law, and it's what American patients and their providers want and need,
All kinds of people are getting very sick because they're taking two kinds of drugs they shouldn't take together, for instance, ... It's a particular problem for senior citizens who are having trouble reading the fine print.
I have always hired people of different ages. Young people and older people. People in their 70s and in their 20s. People who are fully capable of talking back to me.
will inform public policy at the state and national levels.
Well, it took everybody a while to build relationships of trust, whether it was the White House staff with the cabinet agencies.
We must not lose sight of the fact that it will take further action by public health officials and local communities to reduce the health effects attributed to tobacco use,
We want to do everything as possible to help our community and to help these young people stay on track with their plans for a college education. It's the right thing to do,
Higher education is one of few areas where this country competes with the rest of the world and wins. The best of American higher education outstrips any in the world. Look where the rest of the world goes for higher education, for graduate degrees. They come here.
But for me, it is when a student has died. I find the death of a young person the most difficult and painful of times. To explain it to other young people, to see a bright future snuffed out, is just awful. I am haunted by those deaths.
You go to college not only for the latest knowledge but also to meet people from different backgrounds. That's the genius of the American higher-education system compared with the Europeans'. We don't simply skim the elite.
The economic dimension is very clear. I was at a dinner party, a mother got up, who's a very distinguished scientist, and said she had to get home and help her daughter with her homework. The two waiters, their faces changed. They were working their second jobs, they couldn't get home to help their kids with homework.
I get to work at about 7:30 or 8 unless I have a breakfast meeting.
We can't wait for everybody in this country to get good health insurance, ... When you really want to close a health care gap and you do not have a single health care system, you go to every part of the country and have everybody pull in the same direction.
We're actually asking you to be the eyes and ears of the Medicare system,