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High-profile exits, curious absences: The leadership vacuum plaguing U.S. health agencies

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A wave of firings and resignations at the highest levels of the CDC and the FDA suggests the Trump administration may be pivoting away from facets of the MAHA movement.

There’s a glaring lack of permanent leadership at the country’s major health agencies. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has gone from one acting director to another. The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration was ousted last month. The FDA’s second-in-command seat remains empty. And there has been no surgeon general for President Donald Trump’s entire second term.

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