New Director of the CDC
According to a Reuters report, Obama has designated Dr. Richard Besser as acting director of the CDC.
Dr. Besser was originally trained as a pediatrician and infectious diseases expert and will be replacing Dr. Julie Gerberding, the high-profile CDC head who announced her resignation quietly last week. Dr. Gerberding was known as an effective communicator but she fought many controversies during her six years as CDC head. She led an unpopular restructuring of the Atlanta-based agency and was accused of acting too slowly to protect people housed in trailers after the 2005 hurricanes from chemical fumes.
Dr. Besser has been director of the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, which is responsible for public health emergency preparedness and emergency response and he helped coordinate the agency's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
The CDC has recently been helping other agencies, notably the U.S. Food and Drug Administration track a series of outbreaks of food poisoning, most recently involving salmonella in peanut products that has made nearly 500 people ill in 43 states.
The Director of the CDC is an important job and we hope he is up to the challenge.
Dr. Besser was originally trained as a pediatrician and infectious diseases expert and will be replacing Dr. Julie Gerberding, the high-profile CDC head who announced her resignation quietly last week. Dr. Gerberding was known as an effective communicator but she fought many controversies during her six years as CDC head. She led an unpopular restructuring of the Atlanta-based agency and was accused of acting too slowly to protect people housed in trailers after the 2005 hurricanes from chemical fumes.
Dr. Besser has been director of the Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response, which is responsible for public health emergency preparedness and emergency response and he helped coordinate the agency's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005.
The CDC has recently been helping other agencies, notably the U.S. Food and Drug Administration track a series of outbreaks of food poisoning, most recently involving salmonella in peanut products that has made nearly 500 people ill in 43 states.
The Director of the CDC is an important job and we hope he is up to the challenge.
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