While there have been clear successes in areas like smoking and teen pregnancy, other areas have seen little change or even gotten worse. Frieden set a list of priorities he called "winnable battles" shortly after he was named to lead the CDC in 2009. The list included smoking, AIDS, obesity and nutrition, teen pregnancy, auto injuries and health care infections. Critics argued that those were relatively easy goals — smoking and teen pregnancy rates were already trending down before Frieden arrived. —Failure to reduce obesity rates for toddlers and older children.

Source: Fox News December 05, 2016 17:59 UTC