CDC/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The Trump administration will appoint prominent HIV/AIDS researcher Robert Redfield to lead the CDC, administration officials announced Wednesday [3-21-18] amid new scrutiny of controversies surrounding his earlier research and views. Redfield, a clinical scientist and former Army doctor who co-founded the Institute of Human Virology at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, has been leading a massive HIV treatment program and a global program funded by the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief. He previously served on former President George W. Bush’s HIV/AIDS advisory panel and in various advisory roles at NIH. The appointment comes nearly two months after former CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald resigned following a POLITICO investigation that revealed she had traded tobacco, drug and food stocks while leading the country’s top public health agency.”
–Brianna Ehley, “Trump administration taps AIDS researcher to lead CDC,” Politico.com, Mar. 21, 2018 6:29pm