Rochelle Walensky

Rochelle Paula Walensky is an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to her appointment at the CDC, she was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. Walensky is an expert on HIV/AIDS.

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‘It’s an incredible place’: CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on how she hopes to reform her battered agency

Monkeypox is presumed to have spread within the US, and nine cases have now been identified in seven states, according to the director of the CDC, Rochelle Walensky.