Referring to a “Dr. Heidi” in a Truth Social post, Trump called Overton a smart and respected “rockstar” who would deliver on his priorities of faster cures, innovation, lower drug prices and more wins for Kennedy’s Make America Healthy Again movement.
As a medical doctor and deputy director of the White House Domestic Policy Council who has worked on several of Trump’s second-term health initiatives, Overton has become a trusted figure in his administration and a champion of the Republican president’s goals.
Overton has been critical of abortion pills and, if confirmed, would be positioned to roll back FDA rules that made the pills more accessible. U.S. abortion opponents have expressed frustration that the administration hasn’t moved to stem the flow of abortion pills prescribed online, a situation they view as undermining state abortion bans.
In recent months, she has appeared with the president to unveil major projects, including some of his “most favored nation” deals with drug companies to lower prices to those of other developed countries and his recent vaccine order, which sought to split the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three separate immunizations.
Overton attended medical school at the University of New Mexico and has a doctorate degree in clinical investigation from Johns Hopkins University, according to her LinkedIn profile. Before joining Trump’s second administration, she served as chief policy officer at the conservative think tank America First Policy Institute.
