Hill December 1, 2024
President-elect Trump has finished making selections for the top public health roles in his incoming administration after he issued a flurry of nominations late Friday and tapped a leader for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on Wednesday.
Trump pledged to shake up health care in the U.S. during his campaign, and his picks to head the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the NIH and to serve as surgeon general signal he is preparing to do just that.
Trump quickly made waves by tapping prominent vaccine skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS...