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CDC director Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH, a Washington University alum, is the 2022 Gerald Medoff Visiting Professor in the Department of Medicine. Walensky discussed the pandemic with William G. Powderly, MD, the J. William Campbell Professor of Medicine and co-director of the Division of Infectious Diseases. Their conversation on March 3, 2022 centered on domestic and global challenges facing public health officials as we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic.