Donald Trump announcedThursday that he's nominating Dr. Erica Schwartz to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

#Schwartz, who served as Trump's deputy surgeon general during his first term,
is a Coast Guard rear admiral.
She received her medical degree from Brown University and also holds a law degree from the University of Maryland.

She currently serves as the Coast Guard's director of health, safety and work-life, overseeing the branch's system of 41 clinics and 150 sick bays, among other responsibilities.

She has also instituted anthrax and smallpox vaccination policies, overseen disaster responses and responded to the Ebola crisis. 

Last year, then-CDC director Susan #Monarez was ousted from her job less than a month after the Senate confirmed her.  
National Institutes of Health Director Dr. Jay #Bhattacharya has been serving as acting CDC director since then.

Trump also said he's naming
Sean #Slovenski to be CDC deputy director and chief operating officer,
and Dr. Jennifer #Shuford to be CDC deputy director and chief medical officer.

Dr. Sara #Brenner will also be Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s senior counselor for public health, Trump said. 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-nominates-erica-schwartz-cdc-director/

„I was fired for holding the line on scientific integrity, but this line does not disappear with me“ since then even more integrity disappeared

https://youtube.com/shorts/7TOZK7qj4Hk #cdc #rfk #usa #monarez

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC and Me

I served for 29 days as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Senate confirmed me to ensure that unbiased evidence serves our nation’s health, and for doing that, I lost my job. America’s children could lose far more.

During my first week as CDC director, a gunman opened fire on our Atlanta headquarters on Aug. 8. Investigators recovered more than 500 shell casings at the scene and more than 180 rounds struck CDC campus buildings. Officer David Rose was killed.

https://www.wsj.com/opinion/robert-f-kennedy-jr-the-cdc-and-me-b4ca2eaa #Monarez #cdc

White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-director-susan-monarez-.html

#HackerNews #WhiteHouse #CDCdirector #Monarez #Resignation #NewsPolitics