A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official who led the agency's network to study hospitalization trends from infectious diseases like COVID-19 has resigned in protest following Health and ...

Senators voted along party lines Wednesday to advance the nomination of Susan Monarez, PhD, to be the next CDC director.

For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it is meeting in Atlanta.

The CDC director job hasn't required Senate confirmation, but that's going to change beginning in January 2025, thanks to a provision in the recent omnibus budget bill passed by Congress.

“For RFK Jr. to be unilaterally dictating to CDC what the vaccine recommendation should be was shocking.” For Havers, who led the team that analyzed hospitalization data for COVID and RSV and was ...

NPR RFK Jr.'s picks for CDC vaccine advisers meet this week amid controversy For the first time since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. replaced all the members of the vaccine committee, it ...