China Names New Disease Control Chief

What’s new: Shen Hongbing, an epidemiologist and oncologist, was named the new chief of China’s Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC), the agency said Tuesday.

Shen, 58, succeeds Gao Fu, who led the China CDC from 2017 and reached retirement age last year.

Shen is an expert in molecular epidemiologic studies. He holds a bachelor's degree in preventive medicine and a master's in epidemiology from Nanjing Medical University. He earned his Ph.D. in epidemiology and health statistics in 1999 at Shanghai Medical College.