WASHINGTON (June 16, 2023)—On Friday President Joe Biden named Mandy Cohen as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Cohen, an internal medicine physician, served as health secretary in North Carolina from 2017-2021, where she was front and center of the state's COVID-19 response. Cohen may be the last CDC director to be appointed without Senate confirmation, as Congressional approval will be required for the director position starting in January 2025.
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Jeffrey Levi, a professor of health policy and management, is an expert on how policy decisions impact public health. For 10 years, he was executive director of Trust for America’s Health, where he led annual assessments of the preparedness of states and the federal government. He is available to comment on the appointment of Cohn to run the CDC.