#Public Health Leadership

Articles (5)

• 🇺🇸 Watch live: Casey Means, Trump's pick for surgeon general, faces Senate confirmation hearing — 25/02/2026 [USA]

  Casey Means, the health influencer tapped by President Trump to serve as U.S. surgeon general, will testify Wednesday morning before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP...

  Related: #Health Policy, #Political Nominations
• 🇺🇸 Ohio’s Covid Czar Hopes to Be the State’s Democratic Governor — 19/02/2026 [USA]

  Amy Acton’s service to retiring Gov. Mike DeWine gives her bipartisan credibility in a Republican state, but that service, leading Ohio’s pandemic response, also stirs charged emotions.

  Related: #Political Candidacy, #Personal Resilience
• 🇺🇸 NIH's Jay Bhattacharya will also serve as acting CDC director — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

  Related: #Government Appointments, #CDC Operations
• 🇺🇸 NIH's Bhattacharya will also run the CDC while Trump administration looks for a permanent director — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to an administration official.

  Related: #Government Transition, #Health Agency Structure
• 🇺🇸 NIH director Bhattacharya to temporarily run CDC — 18/02/2026 [USA]

  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.

  Related: #Government Transitions, #Health Agency Restructuring