Dr Tom Frieden, director of the US CDC from 2009-2017, helped Mayor Mike Bloomberg establish the Bloomberg Initiative to Reduce Tobacco Use, which has helped countries take actions that will prevent 40 million deaths. He is president and chief executive of Resolve to Save Lives and a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations
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