Mass Exodus at CDC: Five high-level officials resigned ... Leandris Liburd, director of the Office of Health Equity, a position she held since 2020 to address health disparities exposed by COVID ...

When they stop, calls go back down. The CDC estimates that in the first five years of the campaign alone, an estimated 1 million Americans quit smoking, preventing 129,100 premature deaths.

The layoffs at CDC this week hit global and environmental ... and some of the Reproductive Health divisions. — The Office of Health Equity was eliminated. The parts of its work that are written ...

The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices ... Leandris Liburd, head of the Office of Health Equity, with about 40 employees. Liburd took the role in 2020, as part of an effort ...

The departures were announced at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices the heads of five of them are stepping down, and that follows three ...

NBC News, citing two sources familiar with the plan, reports that the CDC is expected to hand over multiple sets of vaccine safety data to a “senior data analyst” at HHS named David Geier.

Five top-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced their departures ... head of the Office of Health Equity.

Previous CDC reports showed that 1 in 54 8-year-olds had been diagnosed with autism in 2016. In 2000, it was 1 in 150. “The most striking piece of this is how unbelievably common presentations ...

EpiAid is a CDC program providing a short-term loan of an officer from the public health agency’s Epidemic Intelligence Service, or EIS. These “disease detectives” are sent to state and ...

The CDC employees whose jobs were cut were responsible for monitoring, tracking and assisting with gastrointestinal outbreaks on cruise ships. The epidemiologist tasked with leading the federal ...