MedPage Today December 2, 2024
— Combatting new or re-emerging disease threats, agency reorganization could be on the agenda
Former representative Dave Weldon, MD (R-Fla.), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to run the CDC, will have his work cut out for him, one infectious disease expert says.
Anne Schuchat, MD, former principal deputy director of the CDC, said that among the critical duties for Weldon, should he be confirmed by the Senate, will be:
- Assuring high-quality, nimble, and expert support to state and local public health authorities
- Protecting Americans from new and re-emerging threats (both infectious and noninfectious, natural and man-made, arising at home or abroad)
- Modernizing data systems and capacities for public health
- Sustaining or where needed improving high-quality scientific expertise, in-house and through...
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