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– A year after Trump’s White House announced it would coordinate its response to the coronavirus, Deborah Birx has found a new job, and a lot of it. The George W. Bush Institute said Friday that Birx will join as a principal investigator focused on health disparities, Politco reports. A public health official for four decades, she will also work on other global health initiatives. He had worked with the Bush Institute to reduce cervical cancer among women living with HIV in Africa when he was in the federal government. In a statement, according to Hill, Birx said she is “delighted to work with the amazing people and impactful programs of the Bush Institute.” Birx retired when the Biden administration took office. He was not asked to stay when his partner, Anthony Fauci, was.
According to a regulatory dossier, Birx also joined the board of directors of an investment company in the Bay Area. Innoviva receives copyrights from some GlaxoSmithKline drugs, which are lucrative. Birx made no comment on this position. And a Texas company said it also hired Birx as chief scientific and medical adviser for Reuters. ActivePure technology manufactures products that it claims reduce the presence of coronavirus on surfaces and in the air. After serving as global AIDS coordinator under President Obama, Birx became a national figure when Trump installed her in the White House task force. Trump made it worse as he pressed for the nation’s economy to reopen rapidly during the pandemic and its assessment remained gloomy. Democrats and others criticized Birx for not rejecting his suggestions to avoid the virus, such as ingesting disinfectants. (Read more stories by Deborah Birx.)