Trump Administration Taps Brenda Fitzgerald To Lead The Centers For Disease Control & Prevention

Brenda Fitzgerald, M.D., has been appointed by the Trump administration to lead the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Dr. Fitzgerald formerly served as the Commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health.

The appointment of Dr. Fitzgerald - an advocate of vaccines - breaks a small trend of vaccine skepticism coming from some of the current administration's more recent appointments. Thus far, the appointment has been welcomed with acceptance, most notably from the United States Department of Health & Human Services secretary Tom Price, M.D., as well as Tom Frieden, M.D., the former CDC director of . . .