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Heidi Overton, MD, PhD, is a preventive medicine physician and Senior Policy Advisor in the White House Domestic Policy Council, having served in both the 45th and 47th Trump administrations. She holds a PhD in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and founded the Children's Defense Institute, a nonprofit focused on pediatric health and wellbeing.