The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reeling from a tumultuous year — a battered agency that endured chaotic layoffs and has been injected with misinformation under the leadership of Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. — an anti-vaccine activist.
While much of the global health impacts under the Trump administration came in the wake of the dismantling of the U.S. Agency for International Development, and many changes to CDC have been domestic — there’s still a raft of changes impacting the Atlanta-based agency’s ability to effectively execute its global health work.
This worries both current and former staff who’ve invested deeply in building the foundation for this work.