New York’s state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s TFILE - Dr. Mary Bassett, New York City's health commissioner, addresses the media during a news conference in New York, Aug. 8, 2015. Bassett will resign Jan. 1, 2023 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University’s T.H. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)ALBANY, N.Y. -- New York's state health commissioner will resign Jan. 1 after 13 months in the job to return to Harvard University's T.H. Bassett, a former New York City health commissioner, became the state health commissioner on Dec. 1, 2021, taking over for Howard Zucker. Before becoming state health commissioner, Bassett worked at Harvard, where she was director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights and a professor at the T.H.

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