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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 08:25 AM Mar 2018

Exclusive: AIDS researcher favored to be next CDC chief

Source: Politico




By DAN DIAMOND and BRIANNA EHLEY 03/16/2018 08:33 PM EDT

Robert Redfield, an HIV/AIDS expert at the University of Maryland Medical Center, is being vetted by the Trump administration to run the CDC, five individuals with knowledge of the situation tell POLITICO.

Redfield emerged this week as the favored choice to replace former CDC Director Brenda Fitzgerald, who resigned in late January after POLITICO reported she had traded tobacco, drug and food stocks while heading the public health agency.

The Trump administration had been eyeing multiple candidates for the role. HHS did not respond to an immediate request for comment Friday evening.

Redfield, a pioneering researcher who co-founded the Institute of Human Virology, also served on President George W. Bush's advisory council on HIV/AIDS and was an adviser to the NIH during his administration.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2018/03/16/aids-researcher-cdc-chief-robert-redfield-468669

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Exclusive: AIDS researcher favored to be next CDC chief (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
I'm shocked! cannabis_flower Mar 2018 #1
What's Wrong With This Guy?.... global1 Mar 2018 #2
Sounds qualified at first glance....also surprised he is not nominating Jenny McCarthy. nt Lucky Luciano Mar 2018 #3
He initially seems too qualified for a Trump nomination. Is his degree from Liberty? nt Gore1FL Mar 2018 #4
I'm pretty sure jayschool2013 Mar 2018 #5
Not surprising when you think on it... ret5hd Mar 2018 #6
He's obviously overqualified. nt sweetroxie Mar 2018 #7
I found it. Check his Wiki page jmowreader Mar 2018 #8
Im surprised he didnt pick an anti-vaxer nt Flaleftist Mar 2018 #9
If you google further locks Mar 2018 #10

cannabis_flower

(3,764 posts)
1. I'm shocked!
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 08:30 AM
Mar 2018

Is Trump actually nominating someone who seems like they might be qualified for the job? I'm actually surprised he didn't nominate Jenny McCarthy or some other antivax idiot!

ret5hd

(20,435 posts)
6. Not surprising when you think on it...
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 09:42 AM
Mar 2018

What's the one thing a germ-a-phobe wants handled properly?

Maybe the CDC for one.

jmowreader

(50,453 posts)
8. I found it. Check his Wiki page
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 01:12 PM
Mar 2018
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_R._Redfield

Redfield is the first to determine HIV could be spread by heterosexuals, and he was aligned with a right-wing HIV group. Trump’s view is probably that HIV is your punishment for choosing the wrong sex partner, so this doctor should fit right in.

locks

(2,012 posts)
10. If you google further
Sat Mar 17, 2018, 10:50 PM
Mar 2018

Redfield has a long and outstanding history of research, prevention of HIV/AIDs, and support of AIDS agencies around the world. In the 1990s he was appointed to Bush's very conservative AIDS Advisory Council. He was very influenced by a conservative evangelical group that promoted abstinence, not using condoms, blaming AIDS victims, and promoting "turning to Jesus" as the only way to
stop the AIDS epidemic. That group seems to have faded away completely and in the NYTimes article Redfield is highly recommended by Kathleen Kennedy Townsend for all the good work he has done. Sure seems to be better than the crazies Trump has been appointing. Let's hope he won't cut the CDC's budget again as its prevention and control of diseases and epidemics is so badly needed around the world.

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