Background
Nirav Shah was born in Wisconsin.[1] He earned a bachelor's degree in Biology and Psychology from the University of Louisville, a law degree from the University of Chicago, and an MD from the University of Chicago.[2] Shah worked as an attorney, as director of the Illinois Department of Public Health, the director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as Principal Deputy Director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and as a professor.[3]
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U.S. Senate
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