Welcome to R. Frieden, M.D., M.P.H., new CDC Director/ATSDR Administrator

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Please join me in welcoming our new CDC director and ATSDR Administrator, R. Frieden,

M.D., M.P.H. He’s been the Commissioner of the New York City Department

of Health and Mental Hygiene since January 2002. Actually, he is coming BACK to

CDC. He became a CDC EIS Officer in 1990; he spent 5 of his years at CDC

in India working on tuberculosis control, and he worked for CDC for a total of

12 years.

Dr. Frieden is a consummate innovator. He’s had dramatic success in

New York City using policy approaches to reduce tobacco use and eliminate

trans-fats in restaurant meals, to name just a couple of examples. I know

CDC will be in great hands with Dr. Frieden; I look forward to working with him

during this transition and welcoming him when he arrives in early June.

I also look forward—once he’s here—to returning to my previous position as

Director of the Coordinating Office of Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency

Response, rejoining my colleagues there, and continuing to prepare our agency

and our nation against urgent threats to the public’s health.

It has been my great pleasure and honor to hold the CDC Director/ATSDR

Administrator position these past few months, and I thank all of you for your

tremendous support, hard work, and unending enthusiasm as I learned on the

fly. I’m grateful for this opportunity to get to know and work with so

many of you from all across CDC and ATSDR. What has impressed me most is

your passion and commitment—in every corner of CDC I have seen people

passionate about their work and about what we are all here to do: improve

and protect the health of the people everywhere.

I strongly encourage your support of Dr. Frieden as he rejoins CDC. He

will need your terrific professionalism and dedication as he leads us into the

challenges of health reform, improving the daily health and wellness of all

people, and strengthening the public health infrastructure, from funding to

staffing to science. This is a tremendously exciting time for public

health. The opportunities and challenges are tremendous. Under Dr. Frieden’s

leadership, we can and will make a difference.

E. Besser, M.D.

Acting Director, CDC, and

Acting Administrator,

ATSDR