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Thomas Frieden

Also Known As Tom Frieden

Public Health Leader

Citation Formats

General Reference

Health and Wellness Atlas. "Thomas Frieden." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/thomas-frieden.

APA Style

Health and Wellness Atlas. (n.d.). Thomas Frieden. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/thomas-frieden

BibTeX

@misc{healthandwellnessatlas-thomas-frieden,
  author = {Health and Wellness Atlas},
  title = {Thomas Frieden},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dev-health.interactiveatlas.org/figures/thomas-frieden},
  note = {Accessed August 30, 2026}
}

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.

Facts

Birth Year

1960 1

Birth Date

1960-12-07 1

Nationality

American 1

Notable For

Directed 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

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