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CDC Director, MD and disease detective. Putting science into action for safer, healthier people.

Joined December 2011

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    One year later, still affects us all. Read why

  2. A Miami woman grapples with a positive diagnosis. Read her story :

  3. I’m grateful for the opportunity I’ve had to work with everyone at CDC. After Friday 1/20, Please follow me .

  4. Watch : Things healthcare providers can do to make care convenient for patients with high blood pressure.

  5. Communication has been critical to CDC response since it began: 76 million web page views and 60 travel health notices in last year.

  6. We’ve seen 26,045 CDC Info inquiries and 6,144 clinical inquiries from healthcare providers since CDC’s response began a year ago.

  7. CDC’s response one year later: 2,314 staff working on response with 1,125 globally deployed. 102, 952 specimens processed by labs.

  8. Powerful story via : “I live in Miami, I'm pregnant, and I tested positive for the virus.”

  9. I will be signing off from this profile on Friday, 1/20. Please follow me on my personal profile .

  10. My thoughts on the State of Public Health 2017, via APHA .

  11. Great opportunity for public health agencies and organizations: PHAP host site applications open until 1/19.

  12. We increasingly understand that can affect families and health, social services and educational systems.

  13. New CDC study shows a striking gap in health between rural & urban Americans. Learn more to protect you/your family.

  14. CDC activated its response nearly a year ago. Learn more.

  15. Nearly 48K women died of prescription opioid overdose b/w 1999 & 2010. Join next on 1/17 1PM.

  16. Fundamentally, Americans are healthier and safer because of the work CDC has done over the last eight years.

  17. Learn what patients with can do to help delay or prevent diabetes-related kidney failure.

  18. Get involved! Nominate a local immunization champion for the CDC Childhood Immunization Champion Award.

  19. “Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

  20. Hundreds of CDC staff members continue to work intently to protect pregnant women from .

  21. CDC’s Winnable Battles set ambitious but achievable goals that we could measure. Looking back w.

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