Dr. Mary Wakefield tasked to lead charge improving Centers for Disease Control
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has selected Dr. Mary Wakefield to update and streamline the Agency. Dr. Wakefield is an Obama administration veteran and has been chosen by CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, to head a major overhaul of the agency and “win over wary career CDC scientists, combative members of Congress, and a general public that in many cases has stopped looking to the agency for guidance.”
The appointment of Dr. Wakefield has won broad approval based on her previous tenure at the Centers for Disease Control.
The Centers for Disease control has set priorities of improving data acquisition relating to healthcare and infectious disease, disseminating accurate and timely information to the public, and improving CDC response to public health issues. Dr. Wakefield will be tasks with overseeing this process and system change.
