The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency is urging the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats.
FILE - This 2003 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a female Aedes albopictus mosquito acquiring a blood meal from a human host. Dengue, a tropical illness caused by a virus, is spread by Aedes mosquitos, a type of warm weather insect that is expanding its geographic reach because of climate change, experts say.
CDC director Dr. Mandy Cohen speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in New York, Monday, Nov. 25, 2024. “We need to continue to do our global work at CDC to make sure we are stopping outbreaks at their source,” Dr. Mandy Cohen, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, said in an interview Monday with The Associated Press. “We need to keep that funding up. We need to keep the expertise up. We need to keep the diplomacy up.”Cohen, 46, will be leaving office in January after about 18 months in the job. President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nightThe CDC, with a $9.
Trump said during the campaign that he wants to convert many federal agency positions into political appointments, meaning those employees could be hired and fired by whoever wins the election. Cohen said there’s reason to be proud of the agency’s work in recent years. The CDC has built partnerships to improve the availability of testing for different infections and to watch for signs of disease outbreaks byThe day after the Nov. 5 election, Cohen emailed CDC employees to urge them to keep going.She said she’s not aware of any wave of worried CDC scientists heading for the doors because of the election results.
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