Trump picks acting CDC director Susan Monarez to lead the agency
President Donald Trump has selected Susan Monarez as his new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
President Donald Trump has selected Susan Monarez as his new nominee to head the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Monarez, a scientist whose previous work looked at using artificial intelligence to improve health, has already been serving as acting director.
Trump made the announcement Monday on Truth Social. "Dr. Monarez brings decades of experience championing Innovation, Transparency, and strong Public Health Systems," he wrote.
Trump also wrote that Monarez would work closely with Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
As acting director at the CDC, Monarez carried out directives from the White House to scrub the agency’s website of anything related to "gender ideology."
Last month, a judge ordered the CDC to restore the webpages it had deleted. Many pages on its website, including one about preventing HIV infection, are now topped with a statement that reads, in part, "Any information on this page promoting gender ideology is extremely inaccurate and disconnected from the immutable biological reality that there are two sexes, male and female."
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