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Dec 9, 2020 · President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Dr. Rochelle Walensky to be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Politics December 9, 2020 4:00 PM ET
- ‘The Need For Change’
- ‘The CDC Alone Can’T Fix This’
- Restoring Confidence
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...
Dec 7, 2020 · Dr. Rochelle Walensky is President-elect Joe Biden's pick to head the CDC. Here, she speaks at a 2006 HIV conference in Washington, D.C. Chris Greenberg/Bloomberg via Getty Images. Updated at 2:15 ...
Rochelle Paula Walensky (née Bersoff; born April 5, 1969) is an American physician-scientist who served as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023 and had also served as the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in her capacity as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023.
Dec 8, 2020 · Published 5:05 PM EST, Tue December 8, 2020. Link Copied! Dr. Rochelle Walensky has been selected to serve as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Susan Walsh/AP. CNN ...
May 5, 2023 · May 5, 2023, 9:48 AM PDT. By Rebecca Shabad. WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who has played a vital role in the administration's pandemic response over the past two years, is leaving as ...
Jan 20, 2021 · FILE - In this Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2020 file photo, Dr. Rochelle Walensky, speaks during an event in Wilmington, Del., to announce President-elect Joe Biden’s health care team. Walensky, 51, an infectious-diseases specialist formerly at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, became CDC director on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2021.
