Politico: White House set to tap Obama veteran Mandy Cohen to lead CDC

[brooklynite]

President Joe Biden plans to appoint former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, three people with knowledge of the matter told POLITICO.

Cohen, an Obama-era health official well known in Democratic policy circles, would replace outgoing CDC chief Rochelle Walensky, who is slated to leave the agency at the end of the month.


The White House declined to comment, and the people with knowledge of the matter, granted anonymity to discuss personnel moves, cautioned that the decision is not finalized. Cohen did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But Biden is expected to formally announce Cohen’s selection later this month. She had also met in recent days with White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and Health Secretary Xavier Becerra to discuss the job.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/06/01/white-house-expected-to-tap-obama-veteran-mandy-cohen-to-lead-cdc-00099770

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1. What a ridiculous simplistic article. To read it, one would think she had no qualifications beyond

administrative roles and was thus lacking medical, epidemiological, and other necessary credentials for that job. For heaven's sake, Politico doesn't even give any information on her background credentials/training/qualifications. As I've come to expect when Politico and some other media are discussing prominent women, they don't even refer to her as Dr. Cohen.

But this is Dr. Mandy K. Cohen, MD, MPH:
She is an internal medicine physician with a Master's Degree in Public Health and considerable very relevant experience, albeit more administrative than academic. Her background seems more holistic/comprehensive with respect to having an overview of medicine--which may well be a big positive. I see no red flags in terms of her assuming the Directorship of CDC-- based on what I have been able to find thus far.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Cohen

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2. Cohen was excellent during Covid here in NC

She presents very well. Her news conferences were excellent, her leadership solid.