Thomas R. Frieden is an American infectious disease and public health physician. He serves as president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a $225 million, five-year initiative to prevent epidemics and cardiovascular disease. - Wikipedia

Dr. Tom Frieden served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Commissioner of the New York City Health Department. His work made New York City’s tuberculosis control program and overall health department models for the world, established effective programs in India, and improved morale, effectiveness, and impact at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Dr. Tom Frieden’s influential publications have identified the what, how and why of action to improve health.

Dr. Tom Frieden is a physician with advanced training in internal medicine, infectious disease, public health, and epidemiology. Over the past 25 years:

As Director, led the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) work that ended the Ebola epidemic, launched initiative that will prevent 500,000 heart attacks and strokes, sounded the alarm and accelerated progress addressing the epidemic of opioid use, and increased effective action on the front lines to find and fight winnable battles and protect and improve health in the United States and around the world (2009-2017).

As the first Director of International Health Programs of Bloomberg Philanthropies, designed and launched the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, a program that has prevented more than 35 million deaths around the world (2006-2009, pro bono).

As Health Commissioner, led health transformation in New York City, increasing life expectancy by 3 years, preventing more than 100,000 deaths from smoking, and spurring national and global action on, among other areas, better epidemiologic understanding and control of public health problems including HIV, tobacco control, nutrition, as well as the integration of health care and public health. Reorganized to increase revenues and optimize health impact (2002-2009).

Guided the Indian tuberculosis control program to improve diagnosis and treatment rapidly, creating the largest and fastest expanding effective tuberculosis control program in the world and saving at least 3 million lives (1996-2002).

Led control of the largest outbreak of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis ever to occur in the United States by creating a tuberculosis control program that is a model for the United States and the world, with intensive community outreach, clinical excellence, effective integration of health care and public health, ongoing analysis and publication of key epidemiologic and program aspects, and rigorous accountability (1990-1996). For more information visit: www.DrTomFrieden.net

President and Chief Executive Officer, Resolve to Save Lives, an initiative housed at Vital Strategies. 2017 – present

Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 2009 – 2017

Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene, New York City. 2002 – 2009

Director, Global Health, Bloomberg Philanthropies. 2006-2009 (pro bono)

Medical Officer, Tuberculosis Control, Southeast Asia Regional Office, World Health Organization (seconded from the CDC). 1996 – 2002

Assistant Commissioner of Health and Director, Bureau of Tuberculosis Control, New York City Department of Health (seconded from the CDC). 1992 – 1996

Assistant Clinical Professor of Public Health (Epidemiology)

Columbia University School of Public Health. 1993 – 2002.

Medical Supervisor. Psychiatry program for homeless men. 1988 – 1989.

Community Organizer. Center for Health Services. Vanderbilt University. 1982. Selected Awards and Honors:

Honorary Doctorate of Science, New York University, 2017 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 2017

MedShare Humanitarian Award, 2017

CDC Foundation announced Tom Frieden Future Leaders Fund, 2017

Campaign for Tobacco Free-Kids Champion Award, 2016

Courageous Leadership Award, National Rx Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit, 2016

Modern Healthcare and Modern Physician, 50 Most Influential Physician Executives in Healthcare

Arthur P. Gold Foundation Humanism in Medicine Award, 2015

New England Journal of Medicine Shattuck Lecture, 2015

Honorary Doctorate of Science, Oglethorpe University, 2015

TIME - 100 Most Influential People, 2014

Harvard School of Public Health Julius B. Richmond Award, 2014

American Society for Clinical Pathology Patient’s Advocate Award, 2013

Morehouse College, Innovative Creative Entrepreneurial Award, 2013 Honorary Doctorate of Science, Oberlin College, 2012 Honorary Doctorate of Public Service, Tufts University, 2011

Elected as member of the National Academy of Sciences, 2009

Prize for Public Service Innovation, Citizens Budget Commission, 2009

Milton and Ruth Roemer Prize for Creative Local Public Health Work, APHA, 2008

American Diabetes Association's Distinguished Service Achievement Award, 2008

The New York Observer’s 100 Most Powerful People in New York, 2008

New York 1’s New Yorker of the Year 2006

Governing Magazine’s Public Official of the Year 2005 Award

Distinguished Service Award. Douglas (Tennessee) Community Health Council, 1982

Distinguished Service Award. New York Psychiatric Hospital, 1978 Certification

Board Certified, Infectious Diseases. 1992 - 2002

Board Certified, Internal Medicine. 1989 - present

Diplomate, National Board of Medical Examiners. 1987

New York State Medical License. 1986 - present Selected presentations available online

Resolve to Save Lives (Program Launch, September 2017)

Zika (National Press Club, May 2016)

The cough heard 'round the world (National Press Club, September 2013)

What do you do when your best shot fails? (TEDMED, April 2012)

A Public Health Approach to Infectious Disease Prevention and Control for the 21st Century (Kinyoun Lecture, November 17, 2011) ¹⁾

By Mark Crudele - Aug 24, 2018 - ABC News' Morgan Winsor contributed to this report.

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Tom Frieden turned himself in to authorities in New York City on Friday to face charges that he groped a woman he knew last year, according to law enforcement officials.

Frieden, who was also the New York City Health Commissioner, allegedly grabbed the woman's butt during a gathering at his Brooklyn apartment last October.

The unidentified 55-year-old woman reported the incident in early July, and Frieden surrendered to authorities at the New York Police Department Friday morning, law enforcement officials told ABC News.

Frieden, who was charged with forcible touching, sex abuse and harassment, was scheduled to appear in court in Brooklyn for his arraignment Friday afternoon.

“This allegation does not reflect Dr. Frieden’s public or private behavior, or his values over a lifetime of service to improve the health around the world,” a spokesperson for Frieden told ABC News on Friday.

Frieden is currently the president and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives, a $225 million global health initiative that aims to prevent 100 million deaths from cardiovascular disease and to prevent epidemics.

Jose Castro, the president and CEO of Vital Strategies, the New York-based nonprofit that houses the Resolve to Save Lives initiative, released a statement in support of Frieden, saying he has the “highest ethical standards personally and professionally” and there have been “no incidents of workplace harassment.” Castro continued “Vital Strategies greatly values the work Dr. Frieden does to advance public health and he has my full confidence.”²⁾

ABC News By Christina Carrega - Jun 4, 2019

Former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Tom Frieden avoided jail time on Tuesday after pleading guilty to groping a longtime family friend in New York.

Frieden, who is also the former New York City health comissioner, turned himself in to police in August 2018 after the woman reported that he had grabbed her butt without her permission inside his Brooklyn apartment, court documents said.

Frieden admitted details of the October 2017 incident to Brooklyn Criminal Court Judge Edwin Novillo. Frieden was facing up to a year in jail for misdemeanor forcible touching, third-degree sexual abuse and second-degree harassment charges, prosecutors said.

A representative for Frieden declined to comment on the case. Frieden's defense attorney, Laura Brevetti, also declined to comment outside of court.³⁾

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