Rachel Levine

Rachel Levine interests me as a figure who carried real clinical weight into public office. A Harvard-trained pediatrician and psychiatrist who rose to U.S. Assistant Secretary for Health and led the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, she bridged two notoriously brutal worlds, medicine and federal government, and survived both. Whatever one's politics, that combination of frontline care and administrative command is uncommon and demanding. I read a Scorpio's tenacity in that trajectory. I tend to respect people who hold visible, contested ground with conviction, and her career, rooted in small-town Massachusetts, strikes me as exactly that kind of disciplined, purpose-driven public service.

Rachel Leland Levine ( lə-VEEN; born October 28, 1957) is an American pediatrician who served as the United States assistant secretary for health, the admiral in charge of the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, from 2021 until 2025.

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Name (English)

Rachel Levine

Name (Japanese)

レイチェル・レヴィン

Reading

れいちぇる・れゔぃん

Born

October 28, 1957 (age 68)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Rooster

Origin

Wakefield, Massachusetts, United States

Blood type

Private

Height

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Agency

Private

Occupation

politician / pediatrician / psychiatrist / university teacher

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Harvard College

Spouse

Private

Children

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Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

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• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rachel%20Levine

Tags

• Massachusetts
• politician
• pediatrician
• psychiatrist

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.