Biden selects Mandy Cohen as CDC Director

President Biden plans to select former North Carolina health secretary Mandy Cohen to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), replacing Rochelle Walensky, who is stepping down on June 30. Cohen, a Yale- and Harvard-trained internal medicine physician and public health expert, worked closely with senior Biden officials during the Obama administration. The next CDC director faces enormous challenges, including reforming a sprawling agency to make it more responsive to the next pandemic and communicating the latest science on public health threats to Americans at a time of extreme political divisions and fading trust in government.