The United States Secretary of Health and Human Services is the head of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, concerned with health matters. The Secretary is a member of the President's Cabinet.

Until 1979, there was one Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, uniting this department with the Department of Education, which is now headed by a separate Secretary of Education.

Secretaries of Health and Human Services
Name Term of Office President(s) served under
Patricia Roberts Harris August 3, 1979 - January 20, 1981 Jimmy Carter
Richard Schultz Schweiker January 22, 1981 - February 3, 1983 Ronald Reagan
Margaret Mary O'Shaughnessy Heckler March 9, 1983 - December 13, 1985 Ronald Reagan
Otis Raymond Bowen December 13, 1985 - January 20, 1989 Ronald Reagan
Louis Wade Sullivan March 1, 1989 - January 20, 1993 George H. W. Bush
Donna Edna Shalala January 22, 1993 - January 20, 2001 Bill Clinton
Tommy George Thompson February 2, 2001 - present George W. Bush