President Donald Trump will nominate Dr. Susan Monarez, the acting director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to the job, a White House official confirmed Monday.
Trump abruptly withdrew the nomination of his first pick, David Weldon, earlier this month.
Monarez has been serving as the CDC’s acting director since January. She came from another federal government agency, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health.
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