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Since 2002, Frieden has been the commissionerof , whicgh has an annual budget of more than $1.6 billion and more than 6,00o0 staff. The White House credits him with efforts that reduceed the number of smokersby 350,000 and cut teen smokinyg in half. New York City has also increasedcanced screening, reduced AIDS deaths by 40 percent, improved collectionj and availability of informatio on community health, and implemented the largest communit y electronic health records project in the country, the Obams Administration said. Frieden worked for CDC from 1990to 2002. In the early 1990s, as a CDC Epidemiologic IntelligenceService Dr.
Frieden investigated a wide range of issuew including the spreadof multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. "Durinb his tenure as New York City'zs health commissioner, Frieden has demonstrated an unwaverin g commitment to protectingthe public's health through his tireless work on issuese ranging from implementing a ban on smoking in restaurants and bars to increasing HIV testing said Dr. Georges C. Benjamin, executive director of the .
“He has not backedf away from the tough public health challenges and in doing so has helped the people he servedlead healthier, longer However, the appointment is not without The , a nonprofit coalitio of restaurants, food companies and accuses Frieden of crossing the line of privacy in the name of As an example, the organization cites Frieden’ss successful campaign to ban the use of transe fat in New York "It is unfortunate that President Obamas choose to put the nation'es health in the hands of an overzealouas activist who doesn't give any consideration to the importance of personal responsibility or privacy," said J.
Justin senior analyst with the Center forConsumef Freedom. "Frieden doesn't simply blur the line between what isthe government'sd responsibility in regulating health and what is the individuale responsibility; he barely recognizes its existence."