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- The CDC's current Director is Mandy Cohen who assumed office on July 10, 2023.
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May 5, 2023 · Dr. Rochelle Walensky is stepping down as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, citing the nation's progress in coping with COVID-19.
May 5, 2023 · WASHINGTON — Dr. Rochelle Walensky, who has played a vital role in the administration's pandemic response over the past two years, is leaving as director of the Centers for Disease Control and...
- ‘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...
May 5, 2023 · Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is leaving her government post, the agency and President Joe Biden announced Friday. Walensky’s last day on...
Jun 27, 2023 · June 27, 2023 4:04 PM EDT. D r. Rochelle Walensky became director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in January 2021, a fraught time in the country’s public health...
Jun 16, 2023 · Dr. Mandy Cohen, former secretary of the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services, will replace outgoing CDC director Rochelle Walensky. Bryan Anderson/AP. President Biden has...
Jan 5, 2022 · As director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Walensky’s job is to protect the nation, and by extension the world, from threats like this one.