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 ...

NIH Director Jayanta "Jay" Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, has been tapped as the CDC's acting director, according to a Trump administration official. He becomes the CDC's third director of President Trump's ...

In government, the practice is generally known as “dual-hatting,” which is when one official takes on the responsibilities of more than one job simultaneously. Donald Trump has embraced the tactic ...

Public health experts and former federal staffers are uneasy over National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay ...