As President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to lead the CDC, Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida and a physician, is positioned as an important anti-vaccine ally for Robert F. Kennedy Jr., ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has selected Susan Monarez as his new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monarez, a scientist whose previous work looked at using artificial ...

Dr. Susan Monarez, who was sworn in as director of the CDC on July 31, is being ousted. Monarez was President Donald Trump's second pick to lead the CDC; the nomination of Dr. Dave Weldon was ...