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Noun: Secretary of Health and Human Services
  1. The person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of Health and Human Services
    "the first Secretary of Health and Human Services was Patricia Roberts Harris who was appointed by Carter"
     
  2. The position of the head of the Department of Health and Human Services
    "the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services was created by Congress in 1979"

Type of: secretary, secretaryship

Part of: United States Cabinet, US Cabinet

Encyclopedia: Secretary of Health and Human Services