Rochelle Paula Walensky

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Rochelle Paula Walensky, B.A., 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. Johns Hopkins University receives very large contributions from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and is noted for its fervent promotion of male circumcision to prevent HIV infection.
• Walensky obtained her M.P.H. at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston in 2001. The Harvard School of Public Health is known for its pro-circumcision bias.

Adult life

• Walensky served on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School since 2001.
• Chief of the division of infectious diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital from 2017 to 2020.
• Worked to improve HIV screening and care in South Africa.
• Chair of the Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council at the National Institutes of Health from 2014 to 2015.
• Member of the US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents since 2011.
• Co-director of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2011

Director of the CDC

Walensky was appointed as Director of the CDC by President-elect Joe Biden and assumed office on 20 January 2021. The COVID19 pandemic was raging and had been terribly mishandled so she inherited an agency that was in a real mess.

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. A scan of the abstracts of the articles did not produce one showing advocacy of male circumcision.

Personal life

Wllensky is married to Loren D. Walensky, M.D., Ph.D., who is a pediatric oncologist. They are a Jewish family who are members of Temple Emanuel in Newton, Massachusetts. They have three sons who presumably are circumcised in accordance with the Abrahamic covenant and Jewish practice.