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Mr Murthy, 43, is currently one of the co-chairs of the COVID-19 advisory board of the transition. He has been a close associate of Mr Biden on coronavirus issues.

Two eminent India-Americans, including former US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, are among the potential Cabinet picks in the next Biden-Harris Administration, according to media reports.

Mr. Murthy, who as of now is the top Indian-American counsel to President-elect Joe Biden on COVID-19, is a possible pick for the post of Secretary of Health and Human Services, while Stanford University Professor Arun Majumdar may get the post of Secretary of Energy, The Washington Post, and Politico said in their reports on Tuesday that specifies a rundown of likely picks for different Cabinet-level situations in the Biden organization.

Mr. Murthy, 43, is presently one of the co-seats of the COVID-19 warning leading group of the progress. He has been a nearby partner of Mr. Biden on Covid issues.

Also, Mr. Majumdar, a teacher of mechanical designing at Stanford who filled in as the principal head of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy, has been a top consultant to Mr. Biden on energy-related issues, the reports said.

“The workplace, which is a hatchery for beginning energy advances, has appreciated bipartisan help in Congress, which may look good for his odds of being affirmed by the Senate,” detailed The Washington Post.

Among other expected names for energy, a secretary is Ernest Moniz, the previous secretary of energy; Dan Reicher, Stanford University researcher and Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, previous appointee secretary of energy.

For supplanting Alex Azar as Secretary of Health and Human Services, two other potential names are Mandy Cohen, secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, and Michelle Lujan Grisham, New Mexico lead representative.

Mr. Murthy was one of the general wellbeing specialists who informed Biden oftentimes about the pandemic during the mission, the reports said.

Mr. Murthy turned into the nineteenth US Surgeon General toward the finish of 2014, somewhat over a year after his selection by President Barack Obama.

His assignment had been held up in the Senate for a little more than a year, to a great extent as a result of his view that firearm savagery represents a general wellbeing danger.

During his residency, he gave a milestone report on medication and liquor enslavement, calling it “an ethical test for America” and setting it among reports his archetypes had created to cause to notice other significant general wellbeing dangers, for example, tobacco use, AIDS, the requirement for actual action.

Since leaving the public authority, he has composed and revolted against forlornness.

He was a bad habit naval commander in the US Public Health Service’s appointed corps and is prepared in inner medication.

Mr. Majumdar is the Jay Precourt Provostial Chair Professor at Stanford University, an employee of the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science and Engineering (by civility), and co-Director of the Precourt Institute for Energy, which incorporates and arranges examination and training exercises over each of the seven Schools and the Hoover Institution at Stanford.

He is likewise a workforce in the Department of Photon Science at SLAC.

In October 2009, Mr. Majumdar was selected by President Obama and affirmed by the Senate to turn into the Founding Director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), where he served till June 2012 and helped ARPA-E become a model of greatness and development for the public authority with bipartisan help from Congress and different partners.

In the wake of leaving Washington, DC and prior to joining Stanford, Mr. Majumdar was the Vice President for Energy at Google, where he made a few energy innovation activities, particularly at the crossing point of information, processing, and power matrix.