In brief
Jeffrey Koplan spent decades inside the CDC — on HIV in the blood supply, on Bhopal, on syphilis — before becoming director. The anthrax letters of 2001 arrived on his watch.
He later founded Emory’s Global Health Institute. The career is public health as a long-distance run, not a single outbreak.
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