Susan Monarez out as CDC director less than a month after being sworn in
Posted on: Aug 28, 2025 03:33 IST | Posted by: Cbc
U.S. Centers for Disease verify and bar theater director Susan Monarez has left wing the authority less than a month after being sworn in.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a statement on Wednesday saying that she was no longer director of the CDC.
"We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people," the statement said.
The Washington Post first reported Monarez was being ousted and on her way out earlier on Wednesday, citing multiple Trump administration officials familiar with the matter.
Citing several anonymous CDC employees, the newspaper reported that Monarez on Friday cancelled an agency-wide call that had been scheduled for Monday.
Monarez, a federal government scientist, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 29 to lead the CDC after U.S. President Donald Trump nominated her earlier in the year. She was sworn in by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on July 31.
Her departure from the agency follows a shooting at the CDC's headquarters in Atlanta earlier in the month.
Monarez was the Trump administration's second nominee for the role. In March, the president withdrew his nomination of former Republican congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon, a Kennedy ally, just hours before his scheduled confirmation hearing.
Kennedy, since being named the top U.S. Health official, has targeted vaccine policy, and in May withdrew a federal recommendation for COVID-19 shots for pregnant women and healthy children.
He followed up in June by firing all members of the CDC's expert vaccine advisory panel, which recommends how they are used and by whom, and replacing them with hand-picked advisers, including fellow anti-vaccine activists.
Kennedy has made major decisions on vaccines in the absence of a CDC director while Monarez awaited confirmation and continued to do so afterwards. Her departure comes on the same day he announced changes to COVID vaccine eligibility.
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