In the first CDC all-staff meeting since layoffs began, interim leadership briefs staffers on ACIP overhaul, timeline for Susan Monarez to become director.

She was formally nominated in March after President Donald Trump withdrew his initial pick, former Rep. David Weldon.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the ...

Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next CDC director.

U.S. President Donald Trump's nominee for director of the CDC was pulled into political contention over U.S. vaccine policy on Wednesday, describing the medications as "life-saving" and telling a ...

The Senate health committee voted on partisan lines Wednesday morning to approve President Donald Trump’s nominee for Centers ...

A new group of seven outside CDC vaccine advisers met for the first time on Wednesday after HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed the previous 17 advisers.

One response: For the first time, the president's pick for CDC director will require Senate confirmation. Republican lawmakers had pushed for the change , which became law in 2023.

US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent move to replace a federal panel of vaccine advisers should help restore Americans’ trust in the US Centers for Disease ...