CDC chief urges focus on health threats as agency confronts political changes

The outgoing head of the nation’s top public health agency urged the next administration to maintain its focus and funding to keep Americans safe from emerging health threats. “We need to continue to ... Read More

Fearing Violent Threats, CDC Medical Experts Are Scared To Talk About Vaccine Safety

"I have many that won't speak about vaccines now and have removed their names off of papers," said former CDC chief medical officer Debra Houry. Read More

Fired CDC Head Will Say RFK Jr. Put Politics Over Policy

Susan Monarez will offer new details on her ouster as head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention at a congressional hearing, including that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read More

Ousted CDC chief warns that RFK Jr. is politicizing public health

Susan Monarez, who was recently fired as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, warned Thursday that Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was actively seeking to undermine the ... Read More

Three ways ex-CDC chief says that Trump team is sidelining science

Susan Monarez testifies at tense Senate hearing that scientific integrity is being quashed at US health agency. Read More

Former CDC Director Rochelle Walensky warns agency headed for a crack-up under RFK Jr.

The former head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control warned Friday that the nation’s public health agency is in troubled water under U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read More