A Senate committee will vote Wednesday on advancing the nomination of Susan Monarez for director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). President Trump tapped Monarez in March to replace his previous choice David Weldon, a former Florida congressman whose nomination was withdrawn over concerns that he would not clear the Senate.
President Trump tapped Monarez in March to replace his previous choice David Weldon, a former Florida congressman whose nomination was withdrawn over concerns that he would not clear the Senate.
Monarez served as the CDC’s acting head from January until her nomination and was previously deputy director of the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health. If confirmed, she would be the first non-physician to hold the position in more than half a century.
As director, Monarez would hold enormous power over the future of vaccines. She would be able to approve or reject vaccine recommendations made from the agency’s advisory panel which Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr recently overhauled.
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