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Rochelle Walensky, the Glossary

Rochelle Paula Walensky (née Bersoff; born April 5, 1969) is an American physician-scientist who served as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2021 to 2023 and served as the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry in her capacity as the director of the U.S.^[1]

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Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Massachusetts General Hospital faculty
Scientists from Maryland

African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry

The Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) is a federal public health agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Anne Schuchat

Anne Schuchat (born 1960) is an American medical doctor. Rochelle Walensky and Anne Schuchat are Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Ashish Jha

Ashish Kumar Jha (born December 31, 1970) is an Indian-American general internist physician and academic who served as the White House COVID-19 response coordinator from 2022–2023. Rochelle Walensky and Ashish Jha are Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni.

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Atlanta Black Star

The Atlanta Black Star is the largest black-owned digital publication in the United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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BET

Black Entertainment Television (BET) is an American basic cable channel targeting Black American audiences.

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Biochemistry

Biochemistry or biological chemistry is the study of chemical processes within and relating to living organisms.

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Birth name

A birth name is the name given to a person upon birth.

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Black Twitter

Black Twitter is an internet community largely consisting of the Black diaspora of users on Twitter, focused on issues of interest to the black community.

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Boston.com

Boston.com is a regional website that offers news and information about the Boston, Massachusetts, region.

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Brigham and Women's Hospital

Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH or The Brigham) is the second largest teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School and the largest hospital in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the national public health agency of the United States.

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CNBC

CNBC is an American business news channel owned by NBCUniversal News Group, a unit of Comcast's NBCUniversal.

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Coaching

Coaching is a form of development in which an experienced person, called a coach, supports a learner or client in achieving a specific personal or professional goal by providing training and guidance.

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COVID-19

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a contagious disease caused by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

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Debra Houry

Dr. Rochelle Walensky and Debra Houry are 21st-century American physicians and 21st-century American women physicians.

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Doctor of Medicine

Doctor of Medicine (abbreviated M.D., from the Latin Medicinae Doctor) is a medical degree, the meaning of which varies between different jurisdictions.

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Fox News

The Fox News Channel (FNC), commonly known as Fox News, is an American multinational conservative news and political commentary television channel and website based in New York City.

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Great Barrington Declaration

The Great Barrington Declaration is an open letter published in October 2020 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns.

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Harvard Medical School

Harvard Medical School (HMS) is the medical school of Harvard University and is located in the Longwood Medical Area in Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health is the public health school of Harvard University, located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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Health Affairs

Health Affairs is a monthly peer-reviewed healthcare journal established in 1981 by John K. Iglehart; since 2014, the editor-in-chief is Alan Weil.

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HIV/AIDS

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is a retrovirus that attacks the immune system.

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Internal medicine

Internal medicine, also known as general internal medicine in Commonwealth nations, is a medical specialty for medical doctors focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of internal diseases in adults.

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Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

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Johns Hopkins Hospital

The Johns Hopkins Hospital (JHH) is the teaching hospital and biomedical research facility of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (JHUSOM) is the medical school of Johns Hopkins University, a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, Johns, or JHU) is a private research university in Baltimore, Maryland.

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Loren D. Walensky

Loren David Walensky is an American physician-scientist and pediatric oncologist at the Dana–Farber Cancer Institute since 2003 and a professor of pediatrics at the Dana–Farber/Harvard Cancer Center. Rochelle Walensky and Loren D. Walensky are 21st-century American physicians, American medical researchers, Harvard Medical School faculty, Jewish American scientists, Jewish physicians and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine alumni.

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Mandy Cohen

Mandy Krauthamer Cohen (born September 17, 1978) is an American internist, public health official, and healthcare executive serving as the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since July 10, 2023. Rochelle Walensky and Mandy Cohen are 21st-century American physicians, 21st-century American women physicians, American medical researchers, American women medical researchers, Biden administration personnel, Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni and Jewish physicians.

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Maryland

Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

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Mass General Brigham

Mass General Brigham (MGB) is a not-for-profit, integrated health care system that engages in medical research, teaching, and patient care.

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Massachusetts General Hospital

Massachusetts General Hospital (Mass General or MGH) is a teaching hospital located in the West End neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts.

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Molecular biology

Molecular biology is a branch of biology that seeks to understand the molecular basis of biological activity in and between cells, including biomolecular synthesis, modification, mechanisms, and interactions.

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National Institutes of Health

The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

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Newsweek

Newsweek is a weekly news magazine.

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Newton, Massachusetts

Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Nirav D. Shah

Nirav Dinesh Shah (born 1977) is an American epidemiologist, economist and attorney. Rochelle Walensky and Nirav D. Shah are 21st-century American physicians.

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Organizational communication

Within the realm of communication studies, organizational communication is a field of study surrounding all areas of communication and information flow that contribute to the functioning of an organization.

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Peabody, Massachusetts

Peabody is a city in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Physician-scientist

A physician-scientist (in North American English) or clinician-scientist (in British English and Australian English) is a physician who divides their professional time between direct clinical practice with patients and scientific research.

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Politico

Politico (stylized in all caps), known originally as The Politico, is an American political digital newspaper company.

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Potomac, Maryland

Potomac is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.

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Presidential transition of Joe Biden

The presidential transition of Joe Biden began on November 7, 2020, and ended on January 20, 2021.

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Professional degrees of public health

The Master of Public Health (MPH), Master of Science in Public Health (MSPH), Master of Medical Science in Public Health (MMSPH) and the Doctor of Public Health (DrPH), International Masters for Health Leadership (IMHL) are interdisciplinary professional degrees awarded for studies in areas related to public health.

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Public health

Public health is "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".

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Robert R. Redfield

Robert Ray Redfield Jr. (born July 10, 1951) is an American virologist who served as the Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry from 2018 to 2021. Rochelle Walensky and Robert R. Redfield are American medical researchers, Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and HIV/AIDS researchers.

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SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant

Omicron (B.1.1.529) is a variant of SARS-CoV-2 first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) by the Network for Genomics Surveillance in South Africa on 24 November 2021.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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The Boston Globe

The Boston Globe, also known locally as the Globe, is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Wall Street Journal

The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.

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Tom Frieden

Thomas R. Frieden (born December 7, 1960) is an American infectious disease and public health physician. Rochelle Walensky and Tom Frieden are Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Tuskegee Syphilis Study

The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rochelle_Walensky

Also known as Rochelle P. Walensky, Rochelle Paula Walensky.

, Supreme Court of the United States, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Tom Frieden, Tuskegee Syphilis Study, United States Congress, Washington University in St. Louis, Winston Churchill High School (Maryland).

Rochelle Walensky, the Glossary

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Directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Massachusetts General Hospital faculty

Scientists from Maryland

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