“I never expected that when I am trying to run to be an aid to somebody, that they would actually be turned off by my very existence,” Walensky added.Ĭounting her time at Massachusetts General during the pandemic, “it was 3 1/2 years at that pace - an extraordinary pace,” she said. But it also wasn’t something she expected when she took the job - her first time running a government public health agency. “That (the threats) wasn’t the straw that broke the camel’s back,” she emphasized. She said she had looked for a quiet moment to withdraw from a job that gave her a sense of pride and accomplishment but also led to criticism, protests outside her home and threats of violence. Walensky, 54, described her time at the agency as intense, but stopped short of saying she was burned out. “I did what I came to do - which was get us through the darkest days of a pandemic,” she said in an interview with The Associated Press.
She resigned as the pandemic’s national public health emergency was winding down. Rochelle Walensky surprised many in public health circles last month by announcing her departure after two years and five months - one of the shortest tenures for a CDC director in recent decades. NEW YORK - The outgoing head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday her reasons for stepping down were complicated, driven in part by a desire to take a break from the frenetic pace of the job during a pandemic.ĭr.
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