“When I came here [to] the premier public health agency of the world… I thought I was coming down here to use data to make an impact on public health. And you’re telling me what I really am is, I’m a medical historian.” To Redfield, “The culture of the agency is not a response agency. It’s a ‘we collect data, and tell you what happened.’… And most of the people at CDC, which I respect, but they’ve [been] lull[ed] into feeling like they’re in academic medical science, an Emory [University] II.” And still, in 2022, Redfield believed that “we don’t have an integrated system [for public health
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