The Trump administration is running out of time to select a nominee to run the CDC if it wants NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who’s also serving as the CDC’s acting director, to stay in dual roles.

HHS Deputy Security Jim O'Neill is currently acting CDC director, having taken over in August after HHS Sec. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. fired the former director.

Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, who directs the National Institute of Health, is taking over as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, he confirmed to NBC News. Bhattacharya replaces ...

Ralph Abraham is stepping down as the second highest-ranking official at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, continuing the churn within the top ranks of the Trump administration's health ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced Monday that Principal Deputy Director Ralph Abraham, the former Louisiana surgeon general, has resigned from his position after less than ...

In government, the practice is generally known as “dual-hatting,” which is when one official takes on the responsibilities of more than one job simultaneously. Donald Trump has embraced the tactic ...

The White House has withdrawn the nomination of Dave Weldon, a former Republican congressman from Florida, to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A source familiar with the ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Jay Bhattacharya, is expected to take on an additional role as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), The ...

Former Stanford Medical School professor Jay Bhattacharya B.A. ’89 M.A. ’90 M.D. ’97 Ph.D. ’00 has been tapped to serve as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), ...