Thomas R. Frieden is an American physician who served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene from 2002 to 2009, where he led the city's tobacco control program and pioneered its restaurant trans fat ban, and as Director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017, where he oversaw the response to the 2014 West Africa Ebola epidemic. In 2017 he founded Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative that partners with governments to prevent cardiovascular disease deaths and to strengthen epidemic prevention. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Notable ForDirected the U.S. CDC from 2009 to 2017 and New York City's health department from 2002 to 2009, cutting adult smoking prevalence and pioneering the city's trans fat ban; founded Resolve to Save Lives in 2017. 1 Connections
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Directed the CDC from 2009 to 2017.
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Concepts and Practices Developed
Thomas Frieden authored A Framework for Public Health Action: The Health Impact Pyramid, American Journal of Public Health, 2010, while CDC Director, the documented origin of this named framework.
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- In Branch: Public Health
- Associated With: United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Institutions Founded: Resolve to Save Lives
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