Trump picks new CDC nominee, acting director Susan Monarez

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Why Susan Monarez is the right choice to lead the CDC

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) stands at a crossroads. After years of pandemic fallout, opioid deaths, and declining public trust, the agency needs bold, decisive leadership. What it doesn’t require is another physician at the helm. In recent years, the CDC has almost exclusively been led by physicians, clinicians whose primary training, instincts, and oath revolve around caring for individual patients. But medicine an…

Who is Susan Monarez, Trump's new pick for CDC director?

She has a doctorate in microbology and immunology, but she would be the first CDC director in more than 70 years without a medical degree.

RFK Jr. Defends Trump’s Pick to Lead CDC After Critics Lash Out on X

by Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense: Critics called out Susan Monarez, Ph.D., for her work in biosecurity agencies and her failure so far to criticize childhood vaccines. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he “handpicked’ Monarez because she is a “longtime champion of MAHA values, and a caring, compassionate and brilliant microbiologist and […]

Trump nominates establishment official Susan Monarez as CDC director

Trump has nominated Susan Monarez, a longtime bureaucrat, to lead the CDC. Monarez has been involved in ‘organ donation programs’ and previously worked at an agency that promoted ‘next-generation vaccines.’

Trump to nominate acting CDC Director Monarez to lead role; Dr. Oz vote coming

Finance Committee ready to send nomination to full Senate, ranking member says.