A series of controversial policy changes directed by the HHS secretary have left experts fearful of the future implications ...

NPR's Michel Martin speaks with former CDC official Demetre Daskalakis about the absence of a CDC director and the government's ability to respond to public health threats.

Greene is the Kirk distinguished writer-in-residence at Agnes Scott College and a distinguished professor of practice at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism. On Aug. 8, Centers for ...

Covid-19 caused more than 1.2 million deaths in this country and in doing so exposed a fundamental truth: The CDC did not ...

When the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data last month showing that drug overdose deaths declined by nearly 27 percent in the U.S. in 2024 compared to 2023, I felt three ...

Daskalakis is the former director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases and is principal at Dr Demetre Consulting. Jernigan is the former director of the CDC’s ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Wednesday that it had suspended diagnostic testing for a slew of viruses, including for rabies and a group of pox viruses that encompasses ...

The CDC center that provides a window into how Americans are accidentally killed could see much of its work zeroed out under the Trump administration 2026 budget after it was hit hard by staff cuts ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has launched a new center that would forecast outbreaks of infectious diseases. The agency announced Tuesday that the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak ...

In the first 15 months of the second Trump administration, the agency has had a Senate-confirmed director for a mere four weeks — Susan Monarez, who was fired last August in a clash over vaccination ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has paused its diagnostic testing for a host of infectious diseases, ...