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Mandy Cohen to Be Appointed CDC Director, White House Says

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By Riley Griffin and Jeannie Baumann

June 16, 2023 at 3:45 PM UTC

Updated on

June 16, 2023 at 4:39 PM UTC

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President Joe Biden said he intends to appoint former North Carolina health chief Mandy Cohen as the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The White House’s sign-off on Cohen comes just two weeks before the scheduled departure of CDC Director Rochelle Walensky at the end of June, following the termination of the US Covid-19 public health emergency. Bloomberg News reported earlier that Cohen had been formally selected.