Robert Redfield was picked by President Donald Trump to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2018.<br />Prior to that, Redfield was a well-known AIDS researcher and favorite of Christian conservatives.<br />Redfield has helped implement sweeping plans to fight HIV and opioids in the US, while pushing to tackle Ebola abroad.<br />But confronted by the increasingly global coronavirus outbreak, CDC and Redfield’s actions are now under intense scrutiny.
