Posted on 03/28/2025 4:33:12 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands at a crossroads. After years of pandemic fallout, opioid deaths, and declining public trust, the agency needs bold, decisive leadership. What it doesn’t require is another physician at the helm.
In recent years, the CDC has almost exclusively been led by physicians, clinicians whose primary training, instincts, and oath revolve around caring for individual patients. But medicine and public health, though deeply related, are fundamentally different. Medicine treats individuals. Public health protects populations. Leading the CDC is less about diagnosis and more about infrastructure, logistics, and prevention. It is a job that requires not just clinical insight but engineering—designing robust systems that stop crises before they begin.
That’s what makes the nomination of the agency’s acting director, Susan Monarez so significant. She isn’t a medical doctor, and that’s a good thing because, instead, she has spent those decades developing the skills and known-how to operate with the population first. In lieu of spending years focusing on the individual patient, she has vast experience within the scientific and strategic core of public health and government. She has helped stand up national biodefense policy at the Department of Homeland Security, guided innovation at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and most recently, helped to launch and lead as Deputy Director President Biden’s high-risk, high-reward health initiative, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health or ARPA-H.
Not only does she have deep scientific expertise, but she has a relatively rare experience coordinating across agencies, managing complex systems, and translating public health ideas into operational outcomes, exactly the kind of leadership the CDC needs now.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
will link below to the resignation letter of Trump’s initial nominee. 😔
Dr. David Weldon’s Official Letter of Withdrawal of Nomination to Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
The New York Times ^ | March 13, 2025 | David Weldon M.D.
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This is going to be the incredibly shrinking CDC...
Lol.
If Time is for her it almost has to be a bad pick. Did Walz or Cotten recommend her?
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