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Secretary of Health and Human Services of Massachusetts

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ105626312 ↗
Source-derived summary

The secretary of health and human services of Massachusetts is the head of the Massachusetts Executive Office of Health and Human Services, and serves as an advisor to the governor of Massachusetts. Its current secretary is Kathleen E. Walsh, who has been serving since January 25, 2023.

Duties

The secretary oversees 12 agencies and MassHealth, with a combined budget of US$24 billion and 22,000 public employees, as of 2021.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Secretary of Health and Human Services of Massachusetts” as government position. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023, 2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Secretary, Health and Human can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as government position. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q105626312. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023 and 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Secretary of Health and Human Services of Massachusetts” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.