Rochelle Walensky Quotes

born 1969 United States

Rochelle Paula Walensky (née Bersoff; born April 5, 1969) is an American physician-scientist who is the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the administrator of the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Prior to her appointment at the CDC, she was the Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

United States
Physicians
Scientists

Also known as: Walensky

Random Rochelle Walensky quote

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"We will put the pedal to the metal for as long as we can under my leadership. My hope is I will leave them in a place where everyone recognizes that this needs to move"

"In a pandemic, you don’t have time to wait. You have to take action to help people. We haven’t been able to be as nimble as we’ve needed to be"

"We wanted to acknowledge the limitations of the methods that we had and give out the data that we had so that people could see how the vaccines were performing"

We want to make sure we get the answer right, but when we know the answer, we shouldn’t wait to convey it to others, I think people within the agency recognize the need for change"

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Rochelle Walensky (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.