I would like to know the background of the guy in Charge of the CDC,is he another Obama lackey?
Worked for WHO and also a big nanny state guy. Bloomberg’s health director.
There’s some interesting info on this Dr. Freiden, head of the CDC, on Hot Air in the “Sunday Talking Heads” thread. Look at postings by Jaibird...
He/she has a link to a site that shows this guy bitching about sequestration “cuts” to the vaccine program and blames it all on The Pubs in Congress....
Sounds like an O’bozo shill to me....
RE: I would like to know the background of the guy in Charge of the CDC,is he another Obama lackey?
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Dr. Tom Frieden is the Director of the Center for Disease Control.
See his background here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Frieden
BRIEF BACKGROUND:
Frieden graduated from Oberlin College (BA), Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons (MD) and Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health (MPH).
He completed training in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center and sub-specialty training in infectious diseases at Yale University.
Frieden’s work on tuberculosis in New York fostered public awareness and helped improve public funding (city, state and federal) for TB control.
The epidemic was controlled rapidly, reducing overall incidence by nearly half and cutting multidrug-resistant tuberculosis by 80%. The city’s program became a model for tuberculosis control.
From 1996 to 2002, Frieden was based in India, assisting with national tuberculosis control efforts. As a medical officer for the World Health Organization on loan from the CDC, he helped the government of India implement the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Program (RNTCP)
The 2008 RNTCP status report estimates the nationwide program resulted in 8 million treatments and 1.4 million saved lives.[12] While in India, Frieden worked to establish a network of Indian physicians to help India’s state and local governments implement the program[13] and helped the Tuberculosis Research Center in Chennai, India, establish a program to monitor the impact of tuberculosis control services.
Frieden served as head of the New York City DOHMH from 2002–2009. The agency employs more than 6,000 people with an annual budget of $1.5 bil
On 15 May 2009 the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services named Dr. Frieden the 16th director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR); he assumed his position on 8 June 2009 from the acting head, Richard E. Besser.