The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) — America’s leading public health agency — is facing a period of unprecedented leadership instability, with multiple top officials resigning amid ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. The recent meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and ...

Days after hundreds of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees were laid off, former CDC officials are warning it has left the agency more unprepared to keep Americans healthy and safe.

Multidisciplinary faculty at these PRCs, located at schools of public health and academic health centers, focus on a series of related projects on a public health theme defined in terms of special ...

Since Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pushed out the CDC’s director and three other senior officials resigned in protest, public-health experts—including a former CDC director, a renowned vaccine expert, and at ...

Chelsea Cirruzzo is a Washington correspondent at STAT, where she covers HHS. You can reach Chelsea on Signal at chelseacirruzzo.42. WASHINGTON — Federal officials have ended a brief pause of more ...

Editor's Note (10/15/25): On Wednesday a federal judge in California temporarily halted the September 10 layoffs of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco granted the ...

As former surgeons general of the United States, we are gravely concerned by the recent developments surrounding the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The firing of the CDC director, the ...