.CDCdirector appoints Mary Wakefield, nurse administrator and former head of HRSA, to helm a major revamp of CDCgov and its multibillion-dollar budget.
"I think she's uniquely positioned to understand how you navigate that relationship," Burke said of Wakefield.
He described Wakefield as someone who knows"when somebody is trying to play her." But he also said she doesn't take herself too seriously. He recalled a kitschy animatronic singing fish on her office wall, a nod to her love of fishing. And the time she declined to fly on Air Force Two from Washington, D.C., to North Dakota, choosing to take a commercial flight"like a regular person.
The work ahead for Wakefield could be a stress test of her belief in the human value of public policy. Walenskythe changes she hopes to implement at the CDC won't happen overnight, and it's likely they won't be easy. "Health policy as a focal area of my work before, now felt of very little consequence," Wakefield wrote at the time in the Journal of Forensic Nursing.the Wakefield Act
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