Introduction: Health Policy and the Biden Administration

Joe Biden takes office as president of the United States in the midst of a global pandemic, immense economic and social dislocation, recurrent reminders of racial injustice, acrimonious partisan divisions, and disquieting threats to American democracy. After the tumult of the Trump years, Biden will try to restore normalcy to Washington. But he comes to the presidency at a time that is anything but normal, with myriad challenges that will immediately confront his administration.