The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the Atlanta-based U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Monarez, 50, was named acting director in January and then tapped as the nominee in March after Trump abruptly withdrew his first choice, David Weldon.
The federal agency, tasked with tracking diseases and responding to health threats, has been hit by widespread staff cuts, key resignations and heated controversy over long-standing CDC vaccine policies upended by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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