Scourge of Tobacco and Trans Fats Chosen for CDC

摘要

As a young epidemic intelligence officer assigned to New York City by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) nearly 2 decades ago, Thomas R. Frieden documented a serious outbreak of drug-resistant tuberculosis. Within 2 years, he was directing the city's successful efforts to contain the fast-growing outbreak, developing a program that became a model for TB control. Now Frieden, who has been New York City's health commissioner since 2002, is returning to CDC as its director. In a sense, he will be both an insider and an outsider, for despite his dozen years as a CDC employee working in New York City and later in India on TB control, he was never assigned to the agency's sprawling headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia.