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Dr. Richard Besser ’81, former acting director of the CDC, reflects on COVID-19 and his career since Williams

Dr. Richard Besser ’81 said he met his wife during his “first outbreak,” a befitting idiosyncrasy for the CEO ofthe largest philanthropic health organization in the United States, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Besser’s career spans almost four decades, including as former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention under President Barack Obama and later as ABC’s chief medical correspondent.

By David Shakirov, Staff Writer | April 8, 2020