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Jun 16, 2023 · Cohen may be the last CDC director to be appointed without Senate confirmation (Congressional approval for a CDC director will be required starting January 2025, per requirements in the...
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Jul 11, 2023 · Mandy Cohen/Twitter. Atlanta CNN —. As scientists and staff badged into the headquarters of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Tuesday, the agency’s new director stood ...
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Walensky’s supporters point to her success in overseeing the vaccination of millions of Americans against Covid, the successful effort to control the mpox outbreak of 2022, and her efforts to improve the CDC. But her critics, including many Republicans in Congress, see Walensky as responsible for confusing public health messaging that didn’t help e...
Walensky was appointed in December 2020 by then-President-elect Biden. As the head of Massachusetts General Hospital’s infectious disease division and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, Walenksy was widely respected in public health circles for her work, including decades of HIV research. But her lack of experience navigating a fede...
Both the Covid and mpox crises raised fundamental questions about the way the CDC functions within the federal government. Allegations from lawmakers that the nation’s premier public health agency has been compromised by political pressure did not end with the Trump administration, they just started to come from Republicans. At the same time, publi...
Jul 26, 2023 · By Helen Branswell. Reprints. CDC Director Mandy Cohen Cliff Owen/AP. T he new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Mandy Cohen, is only two weeks into her new job. But...
May 5, 2023 · For Immediate Release: Friday, May 5, 2023. Contact: Media Relations. (404) 639-3286. CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky announced today her intent to depart the agency at the end of June.
Jun 20, 2023 · By Mike Stobbe. Published 2:01 PM PDT, June 20, 2023. NEW YORK (AP) — The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic.
Aug 1, 2023 · NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer talks with Dr. Mandy Cohen, the new director of the CDC, about her vision for the agency in the wake of COVID and how to prepare for fall surges of flu and COVID.
