Rochelle W. — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Inducted into the National Academy of Medicine in 2021
Current Fellow at Harvard University Business School, Kennedy School, and T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Served as the 19th Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (2021-2023)
Former Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (2012-2021)
Former Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital (2017-2021)
Conducted research on mathematical model-based approaches to global HIV prevention, screening, and care
Received her M.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine (1995) and M.P.H. from Harvard School of Public Health (2001)

Biography

Dr. Rochelle Walensky is an American physician-scientist who served as the 19th Director of the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from 2021 to 2023. In this capacity, she also served as the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry.