--- description: Frieden served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017 and is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. He is the author of the forthcoming book,The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own (MIT Press, September 30, 2025). title: TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Tom Frieden ## Tom Frieden Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close _Frieden served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017 and is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. He is the author of the forthcoming book,_[**_The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own_**](https://theformulaforbetterhealth.net/) _(MIT Press, September 30, 2025)._ ## Tom Frieden Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close *  Sep 30, 2025 ### [The Invisible Diseases Killing Americans](https://time.com/7320560/invisible-diseases-killing-americans/) "Surveillance is the superpower that allows public health to succeed," writes former CDC director Dr... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Jun 16, 2025 ### [Former CDC Director: RFK Jr. is Wrong about Vaccines](https://time.com/7294477/former-cdc-rfk-wrong-vaccines/) “If Kennedy truly wants to restore trust, he should let scientists do science—and let ACIP do its vi... [IDEAS](/section/ideas/) *  Mar 22, 2017 ### [History Proves the Dangers of Underfunded Health Programs](https://time.com/4707951/ex-cdc-official-history-proves-the-dangers-of-underfunded-health-programs/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Feb 4, 2015 ### [Vaccines Can Prevent Measles From Being a Disease of the Future](https://time.com/3696139/measles-outbreak-2015-cdc-says-vaccinate/) [HEALTH](/section/health/) *  Nov 20, 2014 ### [Tom Frieden: What I'm Thankful For](https://time.com/3595596/tom-frieden-time-for-thanks-ebola/) Meta: null ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Organization","@id":"https://time.com/","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/","name":"Home"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/author/tom-frieden/","name":"Tom Frieden"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Person","@id":"https://time.com/author/tom-frieden/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/author/tom-frieden/"},"name":"Tom Frieden","jobTitle":null,"description":"Frieden served as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from 2009 to 2017 and is currently President and CEO of Resolve to Save Lives. He is the author of the forthcoming book,The Formula for Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your Own (MIT Press, September 30, 2025).","url":"https://time.com/author/tom-frieden/","sameAs":["https://x.com/DrFriedenCDC"],"worksFor":{"@type":"Organization","name":"TIME","url":"https://time.com/"}}] ```