Julie Gerberding
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Julie Louise Gerberding is an American infectious disease expert who was the first woman to serve as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As of May 2022, she is the CEO
Gerberding as CDC director
Julie Gerberding speaking at the HealthierUS summit in April 2004.
Tom Frieden
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Thomas R. Frieden is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a global initiative working to prevent epidemics and cardiovas
Julie Gerberding
…Gerberding resigned as CDC director effective on January 20, 2009, Barack Obama's inauguration day, to enable Obama's appointment for CDC director, Tom Frieden, to assume his position. In December 2009, Gerberding became president of Merck's vaccine division. In December 2014, the company announced her appointment…
Thomas Frieden official CDC portrait
Frieden is decontaminated after visiting Ebola treatment unit in Liberia, August 2014