The Biden administration announced Friday that Mandy Cohen, a physician and former North Carolina health secretary, will be the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Lawmakers have scrutinized the agency’s operations, with Congress holding two hearings this month that reviewed CDC’s decisions during the pandemic.
GOP lawmakers and some public health experts have criticized CDC officials for relying on remote work in 2022 and into 2023, saying the scattered workforce complicated efforts to transform the agencywhich has headquarters in Atlanta — following the pandemic. Walensky often worked from her Boston-area home during her two-year-plus tenure.“We need a culture change at the CDC, and that is not going to happen over Zoom,” said Sen.
One CDC official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the news media, said he and colleagues are “cautiously curious” about the new director, and “hopeful she will be as good” as news stories have suggested. But morale is low. “We’ve been so battered since 2020. People are just tired. And weary.
Cohen most recently has been a senior executive at Aledade, which works with independent primary care practices and health centers on improving care delivery.Some CDC staff and alumni bristled this month at reports of Cohen’s planned selection, lamenting that her career had been more focused on managing health-care programs such as Medicare and Medicaid than on traditional public health, including fighting outbreaks and infectious diseases.
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