“We need a CDC director that will actually stand up to crazy, stupid things being said that undermine faith in immunization,” he said. That all comes amid proposed budget cuts to the CDC that have led to staff cuts and weakened some public health programs. I don’t want to be the CDC director just for Americans that believe in vaccines. I want to be the CDC director for Aaron Siri and people that have concerns about vaccines,” she said. “In order to be a Black woman who gets this, she had to come in with an absolutely perfect pedigree,” she said.