Hub at Johns Hopkins December 20, 2022
Becerra champions health care workers who pursue their mission with energy and spirt in seventh installment of the university’s Health Policy Forum series
Xavier Becerra, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, has some advice for health care workers and health policy makers: If you are going to do it, do it with gusto.
“There’s a word in Spanish—ganas. If you look it up in the dictionary, it means ‘desire’ in English. But for me, it means guts, grit, and game all packaged into one,” Becerra said Thursday during a Johns Hopkins Health Policy Forum virtual conversation with School of Nursing Dean Sarah Szanton. “And I learned that from my parents. They would tell me hazlo con...