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{{Construction Site}}[[File:Rochelle Walensky, CDC Director (cropped).jpg|thumb|Official portrait, 2021]]'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''', M.D.{{BA}}, {{MD}}, M.P.H.{{MPH}}, (b. 4 April {{LifeData|1969-04-04}}) is the Director of the [[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]].

==Early life==Rochelle Paula Bersoff was born in Peabody, Massachusetts {{USSC|MA}} to Edward Bersoff and Carol Bersoff-Berstein. She was reared in Potomac, Maryland {{USSC|MD}} where she graduated [https://www2.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/schools/churchillhs/ Winston Churchill High School]. ==Education==* Walensky earned her B.A. {{BA}} in biochemistry and molecular biology from [https://wustl.edu/ {{UNI|Washington University in St. Louis] |WUSTL}} in 1991.* Walensky was awarded her M.D. {{MD}} at [https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/ 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. {{MPH}} at [https://www.hopkinsmedicinehsph.harvard.org/somedu/ Harvard School of Public Health] in Boston in 2001.The Harvard School of Public Health is known for its pro-circumcision bias.<ref>{{REFweb |url=https://circumcision.org/cultural-and-medical-bias/ |title=Cultural and Medical Bias |last=Goldman |first=Ronald |init=R |author-link=Ronald Goldman |publisher=[[Circumcision Resource Center]] |date= |accessdate=2022-09-09}}</ref> == Adult life ==* Walensky served on the faculty of the [https://hms.harvard.edu/ Harvard Medical School] since 2001.* Chief of the division of infectious diseases at [https://www.massgeneral.org/ Massachusetts General Hospital] from 2017 to 2020.* Worked to improve HIV screening and care in South Africa.* Chair of the [https://www.oar.nih.gov/about/oarac Office of AIDS Research Advisory Council] at the National Institutes of Health from 2014 to 2015.* Member of the [https://clinicalinfo.hiv.gov/en/news/hhs-panel-antiretroviral-guidelines-adults-and-adolescents-welcomes-new-panel-members US Department of Health and Human Services Panel on Antiretroviral Guidelines for Adults and Adolescents] since 2011.* Co-director of the [https://mpec.massgeneral.org/ 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. so she has announced plans to completely revamp and reorganize the federal agency.<ref>{{REFnews |title=Dr. Rochelle Walensky Knows the CDC Made 'Dramatic Mistakes.' Now She's Trying to Fix Them |url=https://time.com/6207887/cdc-covid-19-revamp-rochelle-walensky-interview/ |last=Park |first=Alice |init= |author-link= |publisher=Time Magazine |website= |date=2022-08-23 |accessdate=2022-09-13 |format= |quote=What we’re talking about is a culture change. We’re talking about timeliness of data, communication of data, and policies guidance. Reorganization is hard, but I think this is even harder than that.}}</ref>

Walensky is a very active writer. She is listed as a co-author of [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Walensky+RP 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 ==Walensky is married to Loren D. Walensky, {{MD}}, {{PhD}}, who is a pediatric oncologist. They are a Jewish family who are members of [https://www.templeemanuel.com/ Temple Emanuel] in Newton, {{USSC|MA}}. They have three sons who presumably are [[circumcised]] in accordance with the [[Abrahamic covenant]] and [[Brit Milah|Jewish practice]]. == Does Walinksy have circumcision bias? ==There are three primary sources of [[bias]]:# Being American.# Being Jewish.# Personal. Walensky is both American and Jewish. She is married to a Jewish American man who is most likely circumcised. She has three sons who are most likely [[circumcised]] because of being American, Jewish, and having a probably circumcised father who may have [[adamant father syndrome]], so she definitely has two sources of bias and very likely has a third source of bias.