A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee, without any background or expertise in medicine or public health chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.
He is William R. Steiger, a specialist in education and Latin American history, whose family has long ties to President Bush and Vice President Cheney. Since 2001, Steiger has run the Office of Global Health Affairs in the Department of Health and Human Services with no background in the subject.
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