Nirav Shah announced Monday he will throw his name into an already crowded field of Democrats vying for the Blaine House.

Shah led the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention from 2019 to 2023, appointed by Gov. Janet Mills, after he had ...

Shah is running as a Democrat. As an attorney, economist, public health leader, and former head of the Maine CDC, Shah says ...

The former director of the Maine CDC is running for governor, hoping his leadership throughout the pandemic will fuel a ...

Another well-known name has joined the already long list of Democratic candidates running for governor in 2026.

In addition to serving as director of the Maine CDC, Shah, a Democrat, was a top federal health official in the Biden ...

Dr. Nirav Shah, Maine’s former Center for Disease Control and Prevention director and former principal deputy director of the ...

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Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control who delivered insight and delight as the 2022 Bates Commencement speaker in May, will become the No. 2 leader at the U.S. Centers for ...

Nirav Shah, who lives in Brunswick, was the public face of Maine's response to the COVID pandemic and also held the ...