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Rochelle Walensky
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Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention | |
Assumed office January 20, 2021 |
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President | Joe Biden |
Preceded by | Robert Redfield |
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Rochelle Paula Bersoff
1969 (age 51–52) Peabody, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Education | Washington University (BA) Johns Hopkins University (MD) Harvard University (MPH) |
Rochelle Paula Walensky (born 1969) is an American medical scientist. 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 AIDS and HIV.
In December 2020, Walensky was nominated to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Biden administration, replacing Robert R. Redfield.

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