The Trump administration is considering appointing Robert Redfield, an HIV/AIDS expert at the University of Maryland Medical Center, as its next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to multiple reports.

Redfield would take on the role after Brenda Fitzgerald, who resigned in January explaining that she had intractable financial conflicts in health technology companies. Her resignation also came after Politico reported that she had invested in tobacco stocks.

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