Rochelle Walensky
Director, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Administrator, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry
Rochelle P. Walensky is director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Her pioneering research helped advance the national and global response to HIV/AIDS and she is recognized internationally for her work to improve HIV screening and care. Walensky has served on the frontline of the COVID-19 pandemic and conducted research on vaccine delivery and strategies to reach underserved communities. An expert on equitable distribution of testing, prevention, and treatment, she was professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital. Walensky served as advisor to the World Health Organization and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS.
