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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. Walensky has led CDC through a transition to greater normalcy across the country, after two years of COVID-19 related closures and waves of dangerous, new ...
Dec 21, 2023 · Former CDC chief Rochelle Walensky nailed the diagnosis. But the standing ovation from a roomful of doctors, medical students, and other members of the Massachusetts General Hospital community at a special event held recently was as much about where she’d been and what she’d learned about pandemics as her diagnostic acumen.
Dr. Rochelle Walensky served as the 19th Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-23), Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School (2012-2021) and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021). Dr. Walensky is an infectious disease clinician whose research has focused on infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS policy, including cost ...
Aug 23, 2022 · Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, speaks during the COVID Federal Response Hearing on Capitol Hill on June 16, 2022 in Washington, DC.
April 3, 2024 – The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) faces challenges such as communicating public health policies to the public, modernizing data collection, and having limited governmental authority to collect data, according to Rochelle Walensky, CDC director from 2021–2023 and current Menschel Fellow at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Dec 13, 2023 · Rochelle Walensky says the CDC needs better access to timely data to shape public health policies and advice December 13, 2023 – Figuring out the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines as the pandemic raged—often with inadequate data—was one of the major challenges Rochelle Walensky faced as director of the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Dec 8, 2020 · When Dr. Rochelle Walensky began her career at The Johns Hopkins Hospital in the mid-1990s, finding ways to take on the HIV/AIDS epidemic was an urgent medical priority. That challenge motivated ...
