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The new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) opened his term Thursday with a speech emphasizing data-based science and the CDC’s duty to intervene in public health crises. According to the Washington Post, Robert Redfield Jr. is a longtime AIDS specialist, focusing...
WASHINGTON, July 7 (Xinhua) -- Brenda Fitzgerald, health commissioner of the U.S. state of Georgia, was named as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Department of Health and Human Services said Friday. In making the announcement, Health and Human ...
Tom Inglesby, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who co-wrote a report on how to improve the CDC's operations and pandemic response, told the Post. Congressional action will be required for some issues the CDC could pursue, including greater authority to mandate state ...
Days after being tapped to helm the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Dr. Robert Redfield predicted the AIDs epidemic can be defeated within the next three to seven years and the challenges of the opioid crisis can also be brought “to its
Now a new CDC director is arriving to a mammoth task: reasserting the agency while the pandemic is in its deadliest phase yet and the nation’s largest-ever vaccination campaign is wracked by confusion and delays. “I don’t know if the CDC is broken or just temporarily injured,”...
As global health threats evolved, the CDC didn’t Aug. 20, 2022 Walensky starteda reorganization effortdesigned to make the agency more nimble and improve its communications. Cohen was raised on Long Island in New York. Her mom was a nurse practitioner. Cohen has a medical degree fr...
After an outcry among some Senate Democrats, the salary of thenew directorof the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Robert Redfield, MD, will be reduced by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), according to media reports. ...
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky talks to “CBS This Morning” about the new guidelines for fully vaccinated Americans. Walensky weighs in on the timing of the decision and the "honor system" for enforcement.