The CDC Museum will be closed October 28th through November 22nd while we install our new temporary exhibition "Health Is a Human Right: Achieving Health Equity." The museum will reopen on November 25th. Please visit our Upcoming Exhibitions page for more information
Past CDC Directors/Administrators
2021 – 2023:
Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH
2018 – 2021:
Robert R. Redfield, MD
2017 – 2018:
Brenda Fitzgerald, MD
2009 – 2017:
Tom Frieden, MD, MPH
2002 – 2009:
Julie L. Gerberding, MD, MPH
1998 – 2002:
Jeffrey P. Koplan, MD, MPH
1993 – 1998:
David Satcher, MD, PhD
1990 – 1993:
William L. Roper, MD, MPH
1983 – 1989:
James O. Mason, MD, Dr.PH
1977 – 1983:
William H. Foege, MD, MPH
1966 – 1977:
David J. Sencer, MD, MPH
1962 – 1966:
James L. Goddard, MD, MPH
1960 – 1962:
Clarence A. Smith, MD, MPH
1956 – 1960:
Robert J. Anderson, MD, MPH
1953 – 1956:
Theodore J. Bauer, MD
1952 – 1953:
Justin M. Andrews, ScD
1947 – 1951:
Raymond A. Vonderlehr, MD
1944 – 1946:
*Mark D. Hollis, ScD
1942 – 1943:
*L.L. Williams, MD
(MCWA Director)
*Malaria Control in War Areas (MCWA) Executive Officers; MCWA headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia. CDC continued the work of MCWA and grew to become the nation’s lead public health agency.