(Reuters) -The U.S. Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC) on Monday introduced plans to revamp itself, with Director Rochelle Walensky hiring an outdoor senior federal well being official to conduct a one-month evaluation.

James Macrae, an affiliate administrator within the Division of Well being and Human Companies, will be part of CDC on a one-month project from April 11 to hearken to and have interaction with the company’s COVID-19 response actions, Walensky mentioned in an e mail to her colleagues.

Macrae will present Walensky perception into how CDC’s applications might be strengthened.

She has additionally requested three senior officers at CDC to collect suggestions on the company’s present construction and solicit ideas for strategic change.

The evaluation follows criticism for its response throughout the pandemic, from delays in creating a coronavirus check initially to its steerage over masking, isolation and quarantine being known as complicated. [nL1N2TE1EH]

“As we have challenged our state and native companions, we all know that now could be the time for CDC to combine the teachings discovered into a technique for the longer term,” Walensky mentioned in a separate assertion.

Walensky mentioned the evaluation will permit CDC to develop new techniques and processes, with a eager deal with the company’s core capabilities like public well being workforce, laboratory capability and speedy response to illness outbreaks.