On Monday, Trump’s administration called the fresh nominee for managing American control and disease prevention centers after withdrawing from the previous candidate, Dr. David Weldon.
Susan Coller Monarez is currently a director who is the director of CDC and can be raised to manage the agency if he is confirmed by the Senate.
Why does it matter
Monarez spent almost two decades on various roles throughout the government, in the American Health and Social Welfare Department, the Internal Security Department and in the Bureau of Policy of Science and Technology of the White House.
Among her roles, HHS Monarez served in Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, Health Resources and Services Administration-where was the founder of the Hrsa Center of Innovation-A recently as deputy director of the Agency for Health Project (ARPA-H).
At ARPA-H Monarez, he developed and introduced over $ 2 billion in programs and projects addressed to challenges related to healthcare and care, and conducted “designing strategy of innovation of data innovation and architectural data systems, including pioneering possibilities of including comprehensive AI”, according to its website LinkedIn.
She developed AI projects and machine learning, focusing on several key challenges for public health and population, according to Her biography of CDC: price accessibility and availability, extension of access to behavioral and mental interventions, solving the opioid epidemic, solving health problems in mother’s incidence and mortality, and improving donation programs and organ transplantation in the country.
Greater trend
White House at the beginning of this month withdrew the nomination Among Weldon, his initial choice of CDC, when it became obvious that the former Congresmen from Florida could not gather sufficient support from other Republicans to be confirmed in the Senate.
The Senate Health Committee, controlled by GOP on March 13, just a few minutes before the planned interrogation in the Weldon nomination, that he cancels the trial after several Republicans issued concerns about his opinion from the vaccine.
On the plate
“The Americans lost confidence in CDC due to the political and catastrophic prejudice of improper management,” wrote President Trump on his social media platform, Truth Social, announcing a fresh nomination. “As an amazing mother and a devoted public official, Dr. Monarez understands the importance of the protection of our children, our communities and our future.”
Monarez has a doctorate but would be “the first non -physician to manage the agency for over 50 years”, according to.
Other population and public health leaders applauded the nomination.
“He has a strong reputation as a solid researcher and expert in the field of infectious diseases,” said The Times Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of American Public Health Association. “He clearly understands public health and the role of government public health. I believe that the public health community can cooperate with it in a positive way.”
“Susan has a long, outstanding story as a data -based, effective civilian,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, professor of epidemiology and director of the Pandemic Center at Brown University School of Public Health, said CNN. “I am glad that it will lead CDC.”
“Dr Monez understands the critical roles of technology and data in the necessary transformation of public health in the US,” said Lisa Bari, general director of Civitas Networks for Health, in LinkedIn Post. “Changes are clearly planned for the future of CDC, HHS in general and other HHS agencies. Dr. Monarez and other agency bosses who have been nominated, I hope they will cooperate to create a stronger and more efficient HHS, which results in better health and results for all Americans.”