Claude Earl Fox, III, MD, MPH
Administrator, Health Resources and Services Administration
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Claude Earl Fox, M.D., M.P.H., was appointed as
the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration
on May 12, 1998. HRSA, with a $4.6 billion budget for Fiscal Year
2000, leads the nation's efforts to open access to health care
for all Americans, including poor, uninsured and isolated individuals
and families, through an array of grants to state and local governments,
health care providers and health professions training programs.
HRSA supports 607 community health centers; funds
services for people living with HIV/AIDS through the Ryan White
CARE (Comprehensive AIDS Resources Emergency) Act; assists states
and health care organizations improve services to mothers and
children; oversees the national system that allocates organs,
tissue and bone marrow for transplant; and works with academic
health centers and other training programs to enhance the diversity
and distribution of the nation's health care workforce.
From March 1997 until this appointment, Dr.
Fox served as HRSA's acting administrator, where he has been instrumental
in many departmental initiatives. He was involved in the development
of the Administration's Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
to help extend coverage to children whose families earn too much
to qualify for Medicaid but too little to afford private insurance;
the Presidential Initiative to Eliminate Racial Disparities in
Health; and the development of Healthy People 2010, the nation's
health agenda for the new millennium.
Local, state and federal service have distinguished
Dr. Fox's career as a public health care advocate. He came to
HRSA from the HHS Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion,
where he was deputy assistant secretary for health from Nov. 1995
to March 1997. He previously served as HHS regional health administrator,
overseeing federal health and human service programs in Pennsylvania,
Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware and the District of
Columbia. He has also enjoyed a distinguished public health career
at the state and local levels, including tenure as the state health
officer in Alabama from 1986 to 1992 and deputy state health officer
in Mississippi, 1983 to 1986.
Born on Nov. 8, 1946, Dr. Fox was reared in Charleston,
Miss. He received his M.D. degree from the University of Mississippi
School of Medicine in 1972. His first clinical experience was
at a local health department in Charleston, a recipient of HRSA
funds. He earned a master of public health degree at the University
of North Carolina and served pediatric residencies at Johns Hopkins
Hospital in Baltimore and at the University of Mississippi Medical
Center in Jackson. Dr. Fox is licensed to practice medicine in
Maryland, is board certified in preventive medicine and public
health, and board qualified in pediatrics.
Dr. Fox, who resides in Baltimore, Md., also has
two grown daughters who live in Alabama.
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