Rochelle Walensky is stepping down as the head of the Centers for Disease Control after a rocky tenure overseeing the Biden administration’s response to the pandemic.

Walensky has been in the role since Biden’s first day in office and will depart in June, weeks after the pandemic emergency orders lapse. “The end of the COVID-19 public health emergency marks a tremendous transition for our country, for public health, and in my tenure as CDC Director,” Walensky said in a letter to President Joe Biden announcing her resignation. 

Walensky received criticism for her response to the pandemic and the country’s reopening, the New York Post reported: 

During her tenure, Walensky advocated against the “serious public health threat” of racism.  

“Yet, the disparities seen over the past year were not a result of COVID-19,” she wrote in 2021. “Instead, the pandemic illuminated inequities that have existed for generations and revealed for all of America a known, but often unaddressed, epidemic impacting public health: racism.”

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