The Department of Health and Human Services has granted an exemption to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to hire a new class of its disease detectives, multiple CDC officials said ...

President Donald Trump has nominated microbiologist Susan Monarez to be the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Monarez replaces former U.S. Congressman Dave Weldon, ...

The CDC Foundation, an Atlanta-based nonprofit that bolsters the work of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, laid off 32 people Thursday — adding to about 90 workers who lost ...

Measles cases have been confirmed in at least 24 states, CDC data shows. The U.S. has recorded the highest number of measles cases since 2019, according to new Centers for Disease Control and ...

Several parts of CDC — mostly those devoted to health threats that aren’t infectious — are being spun off into the soon-to-be-created Administration for a Healthy America, the agency ...

Officials at the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) struggled to find records belonging to Dr. Tom Shimabukuro, the director of the CDC’s Immunization Safety Office, while trying to ...

NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a “senior data analyst” at HHS named David Geier.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is facing major changes, with five senior leaders stepping down Tuesday. These exits follow three other recent departures, meaning that as ...

The departures were announced at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices the heads of five of them are stepping down, and that follows three ...

A sign with the CDC logo is displayed at the entrance to the agency's headquarters in Atlanta, on Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Miguel Martinez/Atlanta Journal-Constitution via AP)(AP/MIguel Martinez ...

Prior to joining CDC and being named acting director, Monarez served as the deputy director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), which is tasked with funding innovative ...

Monarez, a biosecurity expert, has been serving as the CDC’s acting director since January. She came from another federal agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. In a social ...