GOP Sen. Susan Collins (Maine) on Thursday said she was “alarmed” by the firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez as ordered by the Trump administration.

The decision would close an unprecedented leadership gap at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Thursday night informed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees that he had installed his deputy, Jim O'Neill, as acting CDC director, a day after ...

Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez never contacted the chair of the vaccine advisory committee at the center of her high-profile dispute with Health and ...

Chaos and pushback at the CDC An already anxious back-to-school season for mandatory immunizations was intensified by the firing of CDC head Susan Monarez on Aug. 27, and her subsequent refusal to ...

(Reuters) -Former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez said on Thursday she was pushed to rubber-stamp the decisions of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s ...

One of the names on the letter we just heard about is Dr. Richard Besser. He was acting director of the CDC in 2009, which was at the start of the Swine flu pandemic. Now he is president at the Robert ...