Former U.S. Surgeon General and Indiana State Health Commissioner Dr. Jerome Adams is joining Purdue University.
Purdue announced Adams will be joining the school as a presidential fellow and the university’s first executive director of health equity initiatives. He’ll also teach in the public health and healthcare engineering programs.
Adams was Indiana’s health commissioner from 2014-2017 under then-Gov. Mike Pence.
Former President Donald Trump then picked him as surgeon general in 2017.
Adams helped oversee the administration’s early response to the coronavirus pandemic and stepped down earlier this year after the Biden administration took over.