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Jan 17, 2024 · Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC. Role at CDC In this role, Dr. Houry is responsible for establishing, strengthening, and maintaining collaboration and coordination across CDC's national centers including infectious diseases, chronic disease, environmental health, injury ...
Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC. In this role, she is responsible for establishing, strengthening, and maintaining collaboration and coordination across CDC’s national centers including infectious diseases, chronic disease, environmental health, injury prevention, and ...
- A New Culture at The CDC
- Prioritizing Action and Outreach
- Improving Staff Morale
Walensky came on as director in January 2021 after long saying the agency needed to move faster and communicate better. In April, she called for an in-depth review of the agency, and the initial public announcements came in August. “My goal is a new, public health action-oriented culture at CDC that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, communi...
Houry said she knows CDC has a reputation for being an academic-focused agency. One of the main criticisms it faces is that it is too focused on data analysis at the expense of action. Experts have said the agency was too slow to recognize the extent of the coronavirus’s spread in the early days of the pandemic and continuously issued confusing and...
She said the lines are targeting specific diseases and can’t be shifted. But if instead of a budget line on Lyme disease, a line on malaria, it could be combined into an all-encompassing tropical disease unit. Another concern is agency morale. CDC employees have been enormous strain since 2020, and Houry said she hopes the reorganization can take s...
May 11, 2023 · AMA Update welcomes Deb Houry, MD, MPH, chief medical officer and deputy director for program and science at the CDC, to discuss the end of the public health emergency (PHE) and what it means for physicians and patients.
Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the Acting Principal Deputy Director of CDC. Since 2014, Dr. Houry served as director of the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC). In this role, she led innovative research and science-based programs to prevent injuries and violence and to reduce their consequences.
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Debra Houry, MD, MPH, is the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC. In this role, she is responsible for establishing, strengthening, and maintaining collaboration and coordination across CDC’s national centers including infectious diseases, chronic disease, environmental health, injury prevention, and ...
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As new acting principal deputy director for the CDC, alumna Dr. Debra Houry (MD/MPH ’98) is well positioned to make an impact on important public health concerns. In this role Houry is second in command to Director Rochelle Walensky, who is the spokesperson and lead scientist for the CDC.
