Just a few weeks after her Senate confirmation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Susan Monarez, Ph.D., has been pushed out of the top job at the federal government’s public health agency.

Four other top CDC officials have resigned, according to The New York Times : Debra Houry, M.D., M.P.H., the agency’s chief medical officer; Demetre Daskalakis, M.D., M.P.H., director of the CDC’s National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; Daniel Jernigan, M.D., M.P.H., director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious; and Jennifer Layden, M.D., Ph.D., director of the Office of Public Health Data, Science, Technology.

In his resignation letter , which he posted on X, Daskalakis said that he was “unable to serve in an environment that treat

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