Former surgeon general Jerome Adams joins Purdue University

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) — Former U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams is joining Purdue University aft being a person of the nation’s aboriginal COVID-19 effect arsenic portion of erstwhile President Donald Trump’s administration.

Purdue officials announced Thursday that Adams would beryllium a statesmanlike chap and the university’s archetypal enforcement manager of wellness equity initiatives, on with module positions successful the nationalist wellness and wellness attraction engineering programs.

Adams was Indiana’s authorities wellness commissioner nether then-Gov. Mike Pence. Trump picked him arsenic surgeon wide successful 2017. He continued successful that presumption until aboriginal this year.

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