Georgia is privileged to host “the world’s preeminent epidemiological agency,” U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Georgia) told the Rotary Club of Atlanta of the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

“All of us, regardless of our political stripes, are proud of the CDC,” Ossoff said. “I grew up full of pride at this amazing organization which helped to eradicate smallpox and containing so many global operations is based here in our home state. The CDC has been under a destructive and inexplicable and unjustified, sustained political attack now and for many, many months.”

Several leaders in Georgia global health sector were present for Ossoff’s Rotary talk on Aug. 11, including Judy Monroe, president of the CDC Foundation; John O’Carroll, CEO of the Task Force for Global Health;

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