Public health emergencies demand decisive leadership, proactive capacities, and swift, coordinated responses to mitigate their impacts on lives, livelihoods, and economies, particularly in Africa, ...

President Trump has picked former Congressman David Weldon to serve as his CDC director. Previous directors have been able to start soon after they were picked. But under a law passed by Congress in ...

The new administration has reportedly asked federal health agencies to stop all external communications pending a review.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has paused public communications until Feb. 1 as Trump appointees take ...

The Trump administration ordered an immediate pause on public communications from federal health agencies like the CDC, FDA, ...

Past editors of MMWR and prior leaders of CDC lamented the lack of publication, and its potential impact on the distribution of vital public health information. "This is a concerning precedent that ...

A number of other health agencies are also operating without acting heads, including the FDA and the National Institutes of ...

Federal health officials have been instructed to temporarily stop any “external communications” to the public, according to ...