The David J. Sencer CDC Museum at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia. Widespread, chaotic layoffs at the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Editor's Note (10/15/25): On Wednesday a federal judge in California temporarily halted the September 10 layoffs of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco granted the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Visible bullet holes in the CDC's venerable building speak volumes of the unfolding crisis. Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images News via ...

Days after hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, former CDC officials are warning it has left the agency more unprepared to keep Americans healthy and safe.

Our country’s public health system is ailing. With layoffs and leadership changes at the CDC, changing vaccine guidelines, a government shutdown, and declining public trust—where do we go from here?

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. Many health experts became alarmed last week when they ...

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 ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced Monday he is hiring two former top officials from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) who were pushed out by Health and Human Services ...

The CDC's current crisis has been building since Trump's first week in office and boiled over after Kennedy fired the agency's newly appointed director. When you purchase through links on our site, we ...

As former surgeons general of the United States, we are gravely concerned by the recent developments surrounding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The firing of the CDC director, the ...