Dr. Mandy Cohen will be the new director of the CDC
Dr. Mandy Cohen, secretary of the state Department of Health and Human Services, speaks during a briefing on the coronavirus pandemic at the Emergency Operations Center in Raleigh, North Carolina, on May 26, 2020.June 16, 2023 12:35 PM EDT
“Dr. Cohen is one of the nation’s top physicians and health leaders with experience leading large and complex organizations, and a proven track-record protecting Americans’ health and safety,” Biden said in a statement., 54, who last month announced she was resigning effective June 30. Walensky, a former infectious disease expert at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, took over at the CDC in 2021—about a year after the pandemic began.
Cohen was raised on Long Island, New York. Her mom was a nurse practitioner. Cohen got has a medical degree from Yale and a master’s in public health from Harvard. In 2017, she took the health and human services job in North Carolina. A top adviser to Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper, Cohen was the face of her state’s response to the coronavirus, explaining risks and precautions while wearing a gold chain adorned with a charm of the Hebrew word for “life.”
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