Howard Alan Zucker is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services focused on science, technology, and medicine. He received his B.S. degree from McGill University and his M.D. from George Washington University School of Medicine at age 22, becoming one of America’s youngest doctors.

Dr. Zucker holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School focused on genetic engineering and public policy where he was a James Kent Scholar for academic excellence. He has served as a White House Fellow for Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy G. Thompson and has been involved with issues of health policy, both domestically and internationally.  Dr Zucker presently is Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health focused on science, technology, and medicine at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Council for Emerging National Security Affairs, a “high-level expert” for NATO on public health/emergency response regarding potential biological, chemical and/or nuclear events, and on the faculty at The National Institutes of Health. Working on a public-private partnership with an educational technology company, Dr. Zucker spearheaded a major public health / health literacy initiative for women in Afghanistan which he presented at the United Nations and on Voice of America. He is presently enrolled in the Kennedy School of Government and Harvard School of Public Health’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative Executive Education Program. Recently he presented at The President’s Council on Bioethics and at the Pontifical University Regina Apostolorum in Rome regarding a morally unproblematic solution to the issue of human embryonic stem cell research.