AIDS researcher Redfield named CDC director

A leading AIDS researcher will be the next director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the federal government’s top public health agency. Dr. Robert Ray Redfield Jr., who rose to prominence in the 1980s as a top researcher into the emerging AIDS epidemic, was named to the post by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar.

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