Dr. Charlotte Kent

Defender of Science/Clear Language Communicator/MMWR Editor-in-Chief/Public Health Leader

Dr. Charlotte Kent is the editor-in-chief of the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the voice of the CDC. Under her leadership, the MMWR has been a primary source of factual, unbiased science related to the domestic and international COVID-19 response. Since January of 2020, the MMWR has published >250 reports on COVID-19 which have been cited >7,000 times and have appeared in >35,000 media stories (>75% have Altmetric scores over 222 and are in the top 1% of all publications). Dr. Kent records weekly podcasts highlighting the weekly report’s major scientific findings in a clear-language accessible approach. In a year when science was often under attack, Dr. Kent defended and prevented compromise of the scientific integrity of the MMWR.

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