--- title: Alex M. Azar | TIME description: Alex M. Azar II, a Republican, served as the 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 until 2021. canonical: https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/ og:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates og:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:url: https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 300 og:image:height: 300 og:image:alt: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. og:type: profile twitter:card: summary twitter:title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates twitter:description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Alex M. Azar ## Alex M. Azar Alex M. Azar II, a Republican, served as the 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 until 2021. ## Alex M. Azar * ![Kaiser Permanente nurses and healthcare professionals hold placards on a picket line outside of Sunnyside Medical Center in Clackamas, Ore., on Jan. 13. The health care workers were picketing over what they said were critically low staffing levels.](https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltc8382def043d1234/698a3d87011682c6ec98318f/usa-nurses-staffing.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1:1) Jun 5, 2023 ### [How to Solve the U.S. Nursing Shortage Crisis](https://time.com/6284104/nursing-shortage-crisis-immigration-reform/) Former U.S. Secretaries of Health Alex Azar and Kathleen Sebelius argue that to address the nursing ... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/","name":"Alex M. Azar"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/"},"name":"Alex M. Azar","jobTitle":null,"description":"Alex M. Azar II, a Republican, served as the 24th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services from 2018 until 2021.","url":"https://time.com/author/alex-m-azar/","worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```