Dr. Nirav D. Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, leaves after a press conference about COVID-19 at Maine Emergency Management Agency in Augusta. Derek Davis/Staff Photographer
Dr. Nirav Shah, who led the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention through the COVID-19 pandemic, is leaving Maine to take a high-level federal post, Gov. Janet Mills announced Thursday.
Shah has been appointed Principal Deputy Director at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Shah will assume the new role, second in leadership under U.S. CDC Director Rochelle Walensky, in March.
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