Disease prevention and the CDC. Interview by C. Burns Roehrig.
As director of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta, William L. Roper, MD, leads the agency of the U.S. Public Health Service responsible for promoting health and preventing disease, injury and premature death. Before coming to CDC in March of 1990, Dr. Roper, a pediatrician, served as a health care adviser for two presidents throughout the 1980s and as head of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) from 1986 to 1989. Reflecting recently on the various roles he has played, Dr. Roper spoke with C. Burns Roehrig, MD, editor of The Internist: Health Policy in Practice about the CDC and its efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS, hepatitis and other diseases.
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