Eric Adams announced today that Dave Chokshi will stay on as New York City’s chief health official through March 15, a sign the mayor-elect seeks to maintain continuity with Mayor Bill de Blasio’s pandemic response against a backdrop of surging Covid cases.
Ashwin Vasan, president of mental health nonprofit Fountain House and co-chair of the Adams transition team’s health committee, will then take over as health commissioner, Adams said. In the interim, Vasan will serve as senior advisor of public health. Throughout Adams’s mayoral campaign and on his transition website, Adams highlighted Fountain House as a model for how to treat people experiencing mental illness.
“We are at a critical
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