But, earlier that morrning, the hearing was canceled after Trump withdrew Weldon's nomination. The CDC is the nation's leading science-based, data-driven service organization that protects the ...

Former congressman Dr. Dave Weldon blames pharmaceutical industry lobbying for contributing to the withdrawal of his nomination as director of the CDC, as some Republicans may have voted against him.

The president's pick will be the first CDC director to undergo the Senate confirmation process after a change passed by Congress in 2022 . Any nominee will face tough questions over a range of health ...

Trump’s nominee for the top CDC role would join the agency at a time of great turmoil and uncertainty for medical research.

President Donald Trump has named Susan Monarez as his nominee for the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), calling the candidate "a dedicated public servant.

A White House official confirms that President Donald Trump will nominate Susan Monarez, the acting director of the U.S.

President Trump announced Susan Monarez is to be elevated from her role as acting CDC director, after nominee David Weldon was withdrawn earlier this month.

Susan Monarez was the deputy director for the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health since January 2023.

But Weldon rejected studies that found no causal link between childhood vaccines and autism, and accused the CDC of short-circuiting research that might show otherwise. “My big sin was that as a ...