Health and social policy

Executive Order 13987: Organizing and Mobilizing the United States Government To Provide a Unified and Effective Response To Combat COVID-19 and To Provide United States Leadership on Global Health and Security

President: Joseph R. Biden Jr.

Created White House COVID-19 response leadership and directed a government-wide pandemic strategy, public briefings, equity work and international coordination.

Status: Revoked. Is Executive Order 13987 still in effect? No. Executive Order 13987 was revoked. See Federal Register record. EO 14148 revoked this order.

A globe connects public-health dashboards, laboratory work, medical care and emergency workers around a government building.
Pandemic coordination and health security, illustrated symbolically; not a record of completed agency actions. EO Explained · site-generated editorial illustration · not documentary evidence.

What does Executive Order 13987 do?

A response coordinator was assigned to align federal pandemic work, including agency strategy, public reporting and international health-security coordination.

Later primary evidence reviewed September 24, 2026: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14155 expressly revoked this order. Official source 1 · Official source 2. The cited steps do not establish every downstream effect.

Administration position: The order’s findings and policy rationale were the Biden administration’s positions. This guide distinguishes them from implementation records and judicial rulings.
SignedJanuary 20, 2021
Lead officialsCOVID-19 Response Coordinator, HHS and National Security Council
Express timingStrategy within days; ongoing coordination

Before and after

Before the order

Pandemic response was divided among agencies and the outgoing administration’s task-force structures.

After the order

The administration published a national COVID strategy and used the coordinating structure through the emergency; later preparedness institutions absorbed functions before EO 14148 revoked the order.

EO 14155 expressly revoked this order.

Who had to do what

Agency / officeActionTiming / position
Response CoordinatorCoordinate federal pandemic responseDuring emergency
AgenciesImplement national strategy and data reportingOngoing
National Security CouncilCoordinate global health-security workOngoing

What happened next

EO 13987 signed.

National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response released.

Federal COVID-19 public-health emergency ended.

EO 14148 revoked EO 13987.

Later primary evidence reviewed: EO 14148 expressly revoked this order. EO 14155 expressly revoked this order.