HEALTH · NY · 2014-2021
Howard Zucker
State Health Officer / Commissioner / Secretary · New York
On the record
COVID-era commissioner; resigned amid Cuomo nursing-home death scandal
SEVERITY · RESIGNED
Background
Howard Zucker occupied the State Health Officer / Commissioner / Secretary office in New York for 7 years (2014–2021). Took office after Nirav Shah; succeeded by Mary Bassett. Departure context: COVID-era commissioner; resigned amid Cuomo nursing-home death scandal. Same-year political environment (2014): Governor Andrew Cuomo; Attorney General Eric Schneiderman; Secretary of State Cesar Perales.
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Others who held this office in New York
- James McDonald (2023-present)
- Mary Bassett (2021-2023)
- Nirav Shah (2011-2014)
- Richard Daines (2007-2011)
- Antonia Novello (1999-2007)