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  1. Rochelle Walensky

    Rochelle Walensky

    American medical scientist

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  1. Early life and education. Walensky was born Rochelle Paula Bersoff in Peabody, Massachusetts, [5] to Edward Bersoff and Carol Bersoff-Bernstein. Her family is Jewish. [6] She was raised in Potomac, Maryland. [7] [8] Walensky graduated high school from Winston Churchill High School in 1987.

  2. Jul 10, 2021 · Birth Name: Rochelle Paula Bersoff. Place of Birth: Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S. Date of Birth: April 5, 1969. Ethnicity: Ashkenazi Jewish. Rochelle Walensky is an American physician-scientist. She has been Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, since January 20, 2021.

  3. Aug 28, 2023 · Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Former CDC Director and Administrator of ASDR. In April, ten weeks after becoming CDC director, I declared racism a serious public health threat that directly affects the well-being of millions of Americans and, as a result, affects the health of our entire nation. It was important to me to bring my clinical ...

  4. Apr 30, 2021 · On December 7 of 2020, when President Biden's transition team announced that Rochelle P. Walensky was slated to become the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the medical and public health communities cheered the choice.

    • Elizabeth Evitts Dickinson
  5. Jul 7, 2023 · We were very worried about the race and ethnicity divides. But ultimately some of the real challenges were in the rural-urban divide, and we can talk about whether politics had something to do...

  6. Apr 8, 2021 · According to the CDC, the ratio of Blacks and Latinx Americans who are hospitalized are around three times that of whites, and death ratios are around two times higher. And in that harsh truth,...

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  8. In a March 29 interview with MedPage Today, Walensky discussed accomplishments and challenges during her CDC tenure. One example of a challenge was communicating COVID-19 guidelines that changed as scientists learned more and the virus mutated.

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