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For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman.
In recent weeks,
several prominent public health experts have resigned from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
citing concerns about the agency's shift away from science-based decision-making.
Among them was Dimitri Duskalakis,
who until recently directed the CDC's National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
He's here today to tell us more about what's going on at the CDC and what concerned experts are doing to try to keep America healthy.
Thanks so much for joining us today.
Thanks for having me.
So to start, could you tell me a bit about your former role at the CDC and what you did there?
I actually, in my five years at CDC, had seven separate roles.
So I will just focus on the last two years where I was the center director for the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
So, you know, CDC is made out of centers.
That's what Centers for Disease Control and Prevention mean.
And so the National Center for Immunization Respiratory Diseases, which we'll call NCIRD for short,