Rachel Levine: podcast appearances and interviews

Rachel Leland Levine is a pediatrician and a four-star admiral in the United States Public Health Service. She served as the assistant secretary for health from 2021 to 2025 and was in charge of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps during that period. Levine is also a professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. Her previous roles include serving as the Pennsylvania physician general from 2015 to 2017 and as secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Health from 2017 to 2021. Levine is one of the few openly transgender government officials in the United States and is the first to hold an office requiring Senate confirmation. On October 19, 2021, she became the first openly transgender four-star officer in the United States' eight uniformed services. In 2022, Levine was named as one of USA Today's women of the year, an award recognizing women who have made significant societal impacts.