The CDC is in Crisis – Can its New Leader Save It?
July 2023
Nature
Once regarded as the gold standard for public-health agencies, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) faces an unprecedented crisis, fueled by chronic underfunding and anger about the agency’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But now the agency has a new leader to try to put things right: Mandy Cohen, a physician who served as North Carolina’s health secretary until the end of 2021, started her tenure as CDC director on Monday.
