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NIH director Bhattacharya tapped

NIH's Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting CDC director

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

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US NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC

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NIH Director Will Be Acting CDC Chief; O’Neill to Be Nominated NSF Director

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NIH director temporarily steps in to run CDC

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also take on the temporary role of acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration...

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NIH director Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of COVID lockdowns, to temporarily run CDC

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NIH director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya to take over as acting head of CDC

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Controversial NIH director now in charge of CDC, too, in RFK Jr. shake-up

Kayla Hancock, director of Public Health Watch, a nonprofit advocacy group, went further in a public statement, saying, “Jay Bhattacharya has overseen the most chaotic and rudderless era in NIH history, and for RFK Jr. to give him even more responsibility at the CDC is malpractice against the public health.”

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HHS confirms acting director Jim O’Neill out at CDC

HHS confirmed with Healio on Monday that Deputy HHS Secretary Jim O'Neill is no longer the acting CDC director.HHS spokesman Andrew Nixon said via email that O’Neill’s final day at the CDC was Friday,

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Exit of CDC’s acting director highlights agency’s lack of leader

For 28 days last summer, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had a director who had been confirmed by the Senate. But in less time than it took Susan Monarez to get approved, she was fired for not kowtowing to her boss, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., over vaccination policy.