Rochelle Paula Walensky

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Rochelle Paula Walensky, M.D., M.P.H., (b. 4 April 1969) is the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Early life

Rochelle Paula Bersoff was born in Peabody, Massachusetts to Edward Bersoff and Carol Bersoff-Berstein. She was reared in Potomac, Maryland where she graduated Winston Churchill High School.

Education

• Walensky earned her B.A. in biochemistry and molecular biology from Washington University in St. Louis in 1991.
• Walensky was awarded her M.D. at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore in 1995.
• Walensky obtained her M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston in 2001.

Publications

Walensky is a very active writer. She is listed as a co-author of 310 articles by the PubMed service of the National Library of Medicine.