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Politico: CDC Director bought tobacco stock shares after taking over this public health agency

“The Trump administration’s top public health official bought shares in a tobacco company one month into her leadership of the agency charged with reducing tobacco use — the leading cause of preventable disease and death and an issue she had long championed.

The stock was one of about a dozen new investments that Brenda Fitzgerald, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, made after she took over the agency’s top job, according to…” Read the full article here.

Source: Politico, Trump’s top health official traded tobacco stock while leading anti-smoking efforts – by Sarah Karlin-Smith and Brianna Ehley, 1/30/2018

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Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert
Jackie Gilbert is a Content Analyst for FedHealthIT and Author of 'Anything but COVID-19' on the Daily Take Newsletter for G2Xchange Health and FedCiv.

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