President Donald Trump plans to nominate Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to a White House official.
Monarez is currently acting director at the CDC. Before that, she was deputy director of ARPA-H, a federal agency created during the Biden administration that set out to fund innovative biomedical research. CBS News first reported the pick.
Related: Trump administration withdraws Dave Weldon CDC nomination
Her selection follows the White House’s decision to pull the nomination of former congressman and physician Dave Weldon to lead the CDC earlier this month. Key Republican senators had expressed concern about his views on the current vaccine schedule for children.
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