How RFK Jr.'s removal of CDC vaccine advisory committee members could impact public health Career officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention responsible for overseeing the agency ...

CDC Director Mandy Cohen, a medical doctor, stepped down on Jan. 20 when Trump was inaugurated, as is customary.

The cuts slash the CDC's budget from nearly $9.2 billion in FY 2024 to $4.2 billion. At least 20%, or $1 billion, of the funding cut is moving to AHA. The cuts will have a trickle-down effect on ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is rehiring about 460 employees who had previously been laid off, according to an email notice reviewed by The Hill. The Department of Health ...

The CDC warned in an internal document that the delta variant of the coronavirus appears to spread as easily as chickenpox and likely causes more severe illness The document, first obtained by the ...

Key takeaways: HHS rehired more than 450 people from four CDC divisions. Among those rehired were the staff of the CDC’s STI lab. HHS is rehiring hundreds of people fired from their positions at ...

In the original cuts HHS announced in late March, the CDC's workforce decreased by approximately 2,400 employees. Officials have previously said any rehiring would come with additional firings to ...

ATLANTA — Hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees are being allowed to return to work as of Wednesday. A fired CDC employee says she’s happy for them, but she feels ...

That reorganization, directed in part by the U.S. DOGE Service, has seen the department downsized from approximately 80,000 employees to 60,000, with some of the deepest cuts to the CDC, the ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dismissed 17 members of a CDC vaccine advisory committee. Kennedy Jr. cited restoring public trust as the reason for the dismissals, despite his history of ...

The US Department of Health and Human Services is reinstating more than 450 employees at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention who were fired as part of a massive reorganization in ...

“In FY 2024, CDC trained over 461 public health laboratory personnel in best practices for foodborne disease detection, surveillance, laboratory/whole genome sequencing, pathogen identification ...