Sylvia Mathews Burwell

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Sylvia Mathews Burwell
Sylvia Mathews Burwell official portrait.jpg
22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
In office
June 9, 2014 – January 20, 2017
President Barack Obama
Deputy Bill Corr
Mary Wakefield (Acting)
Preceded by Kathleen Sebelius
Succeeded by Tom Price
Director of the Office of Management and Budget
In office
April 24, 2013 – June 9, 2014
President Barack Obama
Deputy Brian Deese
Preceded by Jeffrey Zients (Acting)
Succeeded by Brian Deese (Acting)
White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy
In office
January 20, 1997 – October 21, 1998
President Bill Clinton
Preceded by Harold Ickes
Succeeded by Maria Echaveste
Personal details
Born Sylvia Mary Mathew
(1965-06-23) June 23, 1965 (age 51)
Hinton, West Virginia, U.S.
Political party Democratic
Spouse(s) Stephen Burwell
Children 2
Education Harvard University (BA)
Worcester College, Oxford (BPhil)

Sylvia Mary Mathews Burwell (born June 23, 1965) is an American executive who served as the 22nd United States Secretary of Health and Human Services. President Barack Obama nominated Burwell on April 11, 2014 after the resignation of Kathleen Sebelius. Burwell's nomination was confirmed by the Senate on June 5, 2014 by a vote of 78-17. She resigned at the end of the Obama administration. Previously she was the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2013 to 2014. In January 2017 she was announced as the next President of American University.

A West Virginia native, Burwell first worked for the United States government in Washington D.C. during the Presidency of Bill Clinton. She helped form the National Economic Council in 1993. She later served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, Deputy White House Chief of Staff to Erskine Bowles and finally Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

She was president of the Walmart Foundation beginning in January 2012, and she was previously the president of the Global Development Program of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. While at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, her program focused on combating world poverty through agricultural development, financial services for the poor, and global libraries. She was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Director of the Foundation before its reorganization in 2006. She came to the Foundation in 2001, after the end of the Clinton Presidency.

Early life and education[edit]

Mathews was born and raised in Hinton, West Virginia, a small town with a population of approximately 3,000.[1] She is the daughter of Cleo (née Maroudas) Mathews, a teacher and Hinton mayor from 2001 to 2009, and Dr. William Peter Mathews, an optometrist.[1][2] Her father presided over the local Episcopal Church when there was no minister.[1] Her maternal grandparents, Vasiliki (Mpakares) and Dennis N. Maroudas, were Greek immigrants, as were her paternal grandparents.[3][4][5] Her grandparents owned a sweet shop in Hinton.[1] Mathews has one older sister, four years her senior.[1]

Mathews showed an interest in politics while still in grades school, getting involved her best friend's father's campaign for county commissioner and Jay Rockefeller's first campaign for governor.[6] Mathews served as student body president and played on the basketball team.[1][7] She graduated as valedictorian of her high school class.[1] In 1982, she was a Youth For Understanding exchange student in Japan.[8] While still in college, she served as an intern for West Virginia Congressman Nick Rahall,[9] as governor's aide to Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, and worked as a researcher on the Dukakis/Bentsen campaign.[10][11] Mathews received a bachelor’s degree in government, cum laude, from Harvard University in 1987.[9][12] She then headed to Oxford University where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and in her spare time a rower.[7][9][12] She graduated from Oxford with a second bachelor's degree in philosophy, politics and economics.[9][12]

Career[edit]

Early Career and the Clinton White House[edit]

Mathews began her career in 1990 as an associate at New York consulting firm McKinsey & Company.[12][13][14][15] In 1992, Mathews joined Bill Clinton's presidential campaign and led the economic team for the president elect. Following Clinton's inauguration with Robert Rubin, Mathews helped set up the National Economic Council (NEC).[12] She served as Staff Director of the NEC from 1993 to 1995.[12][13] While Mathews was at NEC, the White House pushed for healthcare reform. Mathews was among those in the administration who advocated for finding ways, beyond just legislation, to curb healthcare costs.[16] When Rubin became Secretary of the Treasury in 1995, Mathews became his Chief of Staff.[12][13] Mathews testified before a Senate Committee during the Whitewater investigations regarding her search of Vince Foster's garbage and the fate of the documents she discovered.[17] Mathews told the committee she had been looking for an indication as to why Foster had committed suicide and denied ordering any documents destroyed.[18][19]

In 1997, Chief of Staff Erskine Bowles recruited Mathews for deputy chief of staff after being impressed with her intelligence during an Oval Office meeting.[20][21] Mathews became one of two Deputy Chief of Staffs, serving alongside John Podesta.[13] She was deputy chief of staff for policy, giving her the task of keeping the White House focused on its agenda amidst the impeachment of Clinton.[9] Bowles later praised her as smart, hardworking, skilled at getting people to work together, saying "I've never known one person who does all those things as well."[7] Bowles resigned in 1998 at which point Podesta was named chief of staff, and Mathews moved to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) where she took the role of deputy director under Jack Lew.[12][13] Mathews remained at OMB for the remainder of Clinton's presidency, during a time of three budget surpluses.[12][13]

Charitable foundations and other private sector activities[edit]

In 2001, Mathews relocated to Seattle, Washington to work for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the largest philanthropic organization in the United States, as an executive vice president.[1][12][13] The following year she became chief operating officer of the Foundation.[13] The Foundation reorganized in 2006, naming Mathews president of the Foundation's Global Development Program.[13][22] Mathews was involved in awarding grants to improve health outcomes in the developing world, including stopping the spread of HIV and other diseases and making contraception more readily available.[16]

She served on the board of the University of Washington Medical Center from 2002 to 2005. During that time, the board oversaw an upgrade to the medical center's electronic medical records and system for tracking patient outcomes. The board was also tasked with setting up a compliance program to fix a Medicare Billing irregularity which had resulted in a settlement with federal investigators.[16] She was a Director of MetLife and Metropolitan Life Insurance Company from January 2004 to April 2013.[23] Mathews also served on the boards of Council on Foreign Relations and the Nike Foundation Advisory Group.[24][14][25]

In 2005, Mathews was chosen by the Wall Street Journal as one of The 50 Women to Watch — 2005 worldwide for her work with the Gates Foundation.[4][dead link][26] In 2008, known as Syliva Mathews Burwell following her 2007 marriage, she was named Obama/Biden Transition Agency Review Lead for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.[1][27] Burwell remained with the Gates Foundation until 2011. Burwell officially joined the Wal-Mart Foundation, which focuses on ending hunger in the United States, as the organization's president in January 2012.[a][12][29] Burwell relocated to Bentonville, Arkansas for the position.[1]

Office of Management and Budget Director[edit]

Kathryn Ruemmler, Jack Lew, Sylvia Mathews Burwell and Alyssa Mastromonaco update President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden on the government shutdown, October 1, 2013

On March 3, 2013, President Barack Obama nominated Burwell to be the Director of the White House Office of Management and Budget.[30] A confirmation hearing was held on April 10.[31][32] Burwell's nomination received bipartisan support, culminating in the U.S. Senate confirming Burwell as Director by a 96-0 vote.[33] With her confirmation, Burwell became only the second woman to serve as OMB Director, the first being Alice Rivlin who held the position from 1994 to 1996.[12]

Burwell entered the job at a time when conservatives wanted decease spending and defund Obama's signature healthcare legislation, the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare.[7] Although Congress tried to negotiate a Continuing Resolution to fund the government pending negotiation of the larger budget, it became clear on September 30, 2013 that no temporary agreement would be reached.[34] Without an agreed upon Budget from Congress, Burwell as Director was tasked with initiating United States federal government shutdown of 2013, the first U.S. federal government shutdown in 17 years.[35] Burwell sent a memo advising agencies and executive departments to shutdown, including the closing of national parks, visitors’ centers and even the “panda-cam” at the National Zoo.[35] The shutdown lasted 16 days.[15] Once the government reopened, Burwell helped negotiate a two-year budget deal to avoid future shutdowns.[15]

Health and Human Services Secretary[edit]

On April 11, 2014, Obama nominated Burwell to be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, succeeding Kathleen Sebelius, who announced her resignation the day before.[36] At the time of her nomination, Obama praised Burwell as a "proven manager."[37] The Senate confirmed Burwell as Secretary on June 5, 2014 by a vote of 78-17.[37][38][39] She was sworn into office on June 9, 2014.[24] As of 2014, the Secretary of Health and Human Services oversaw the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which included the equivalent of 77,000 full-time employees and management of several agencies and programs including: Medicare and Medicaid, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[36] At the end of her tenure, Burwell received praise from Democratic and Republican senators.[40]

Ebola epidemic response[edit]

With an Ebola epidemic devastated West Africa in 2014, Burwell became taking daily meetings on July 28, 2014 as part of the efforts of the United States government, including Burwell and the Department of HHS, to prevent further spread of the disease.[41][42][43] Starting on September 30, other Obama administration officials became giving daily public briefings while Burwell took less of a public role, although she did take part in a number of public meetings.[41] In the fall of 2014, the first known death from Ebola in the United States occurred.[42] The Obama administration proposed devoting $6 billion to fight the spread of Ebola, including $2 billion for the State Department and USAID.[44] The plan included provisions to better prepare U.S. hospitals and to support global health initiatives to contain the disease in Africa.[44] Congress allocated $5.4 billion to fight Ebola in response to the Obama administration request.[45] Burwell and other Obama administration officials sought to assure the public that the chances of a full outbreak in the American health system was prepared to deal with Ebola cases and the chances of a full outbreak in the United States were low.[46]

Zika response[edit]

In response to the 2016 spread of the Zika Virus, in February the Obama administration requested Congress appropriate $1.9 billion to fight the spread of the disease.[47] Congress did not initially take action, leaving Burwell too direct the Department of Health and Human Services to reprogram $589 million in funds previously designated as part of the response to Ebola, to fight the spread of the Zika.[47][48] Of the initial Zika funding, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) received $222 million to lead the domestic fight against the virus with the National Institutes of Health and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority splitting $152 million for the domestic effort. In response to Congressional complaints that the money was not being spent fast enough, Burwell informed Congress that without further funding the CDC's funding to fight Zika would be depleted by September 30, 2016.[48] After Burwell moved funding from other HHS programs, Congress finally appropriated $1.1 billion to fight the spread of Zika in the United States.[47] By the end of September 2016, the United States reported 23,000 cases in the territory of Puerto Rico, 3,000 cases in the states, and 21 babies were born in the United States with microcephaly tested positive for Zika.[47]

The Affordable Care Act[edit]

Rural Council meeting in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building of the White House, Feb. 3, 2016 (from left to right: Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, President Barack Obama, and Burwell.

Burwell's tenure as HHS secretary began ahead of the Affordable Care Act's second open-enrollment period for healthcare insurance, in November 2014.[49] In preparation of the enrollment period, Burwell hired additional staff to coordinate operations.[49] The first open-enrollment period, which occurred during Secretary Sebilius' tenure, was marred by technical difficulties with the Healthcare.gov website.[50] In preparation for the second enrollment period, the HealthCare.gov website underwent various testing actions.[50][51] The Secretary noted the website had been reconfigured, reducing the number of screens from over seventy to just over a dozen website pages, in an effort to make the application process smoother.[50][51]

Because of her position as Secretary of HHS, Burwell was the named party in multiple lawsuits related to the Affordable Care Act.[52][53] One month into her tenure, the Supeme Court decided Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby, where the court struck down the implementation of the Affordable Care Act's contraception mandate as violating Hobby Lobby's religious freedom.[54] The Supreme Court also decided King v. Burwell, a case in which the Court upheld the Affordable Care Act's subsidies for healthcare plans purchased on federal exchanges.[52][53]

In July 2016 Burwell began touring, giving speeches on the success of the Affordable Care Act and its potential for the future ahead of the 2016 elections.[53] The election resulted in Republicans winning control of the Presidency and Congress, having campaigned to repeal the law.[55] Burwell continued to advocate for the Affordable Care Act, arguing it was "woven into the fabric of our nation."[55] Since its inception, the law had led to coverage for 20 million more people and Burwell argued the complexity of the law meant that repealing any part would have effects throughout the healthcare system.[55][56] Burwell and the Department of HHS devised the "Coverage Matters" campaign to increase public support for the law and to boost enrollment.[56][57]

American University[edit]

Less than a week after leaving her position as HHS Secretary, American University announced Burwell would serve as the university's next President, its school's highest leadership position, effective in June, 2017.[40][58] She will be American's 15th President but the first woman to assume the role.[58]

Personal life[edit]

Matthews met lawyer and Seattle native Stephen Burwell in 2005 during her time working for the Gates Foundation.[1][9][59] Burwell proposed in Bellepoint Park, a park Mathews visited often as a child in Hinton, and the pair married in Seattle in 2007.[1][59] The couple has two children.[1][60] During Burwell's tenure as Secretary of Health and Human Services, her husband stayed home to care for their children.[61] Even after leaving to pursue her education and career, Burwell has maintained strong ties with her hometown of Hinton.[1]

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ Burwell was paid through Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. where she had the title of vice president.[28]

References[edit]

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