New York — the Disease control and prevention centers Five high -level departure shook on Tuesday in the latest disturbances of the country’s best public health agency.
The departure was announced at a meeting of senior leaders in the agency. the Atlanta -based disease control center He has twenty centers and offices. The heads of five of them step down, and this follows three other trips in recent weeks. This means that nearly a third of the agency’s senior management will leave or leave recently.
The departure – described as retirement – publicly not announced. The Associated Press confirmed the news with two officials of the Disease Control Center, which were not allowed to discuss it and spoke on the condition of anonymity.
The ads come a day after the White House announced that they are nominated Suzan Monares To be the director of the Disease Control Center. But it is not clear how clear, if any, the leaders ’decision to leave. The Trump administration withdrew earlier this month its candidacy for a former Congress member in Florida, Dr. David Wildon, before the Senate session.
The latest departure includes:
– Leslie Ann Dofin, which supervises the Public Health Infrastructure Center and more than 500 employees. This center coordinates CDC, strategy, and technical assistance to health, state and regional departments.
Dr. Karen Rimli, who heads the National Center for Ethnic Disadvantages and Development Disabilities. At the beginning of the year, the center had more than 220 full -time employees.
Sam Bosner, who heads the Science Office. More than 100 employees at the Disease Control Center work on the research and science policy, and publish the weekly report of the disease and deaths.
-Berbra Lubar, which runs the 65 -person Politics, Performance and Performance Office.
– Lendris Liburd, Head of the Health Rights Office, with about 40 employees. Liburd took over the role in 2020, as part of an attempt to address the number of non-proportional deaths for the Covid-19 epidemic on the black, Latin and Americans.
In addition: Kevin Griffis, President of CDC Communications, left last week. Robin Billy, the agency’s chief operational, left late last month. Likewise, Dr. Nairrav Shah, a former deputy director at the Disease Control Center, who last year was the sound agency’s sound on the advanced influenza epidemic in animals that also fell ill at least 70 people in the United States
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