Mark Kevin Lloyd is back at the U.S. Agency for International Development and he’s warning staff members that talking to the press could get them sacked.
Staff are “reminded that unauthorized engagement externally with the press or others is subject to discipline, including dismissal,” he wrote in a Feb. 13 memo that Devex obtained. The memo noted that Lloyd is “performing the duties” of assistant administrator for the agency’s Bureau of Global Health. Under former President Joe Biden’s administration, this role was held by Dr. Atul Gawande.
In his memo, Lloyd also wrote there’s a “false narrative in the press” about the lifesaving humanitarian assistance included under the U.S. State Department’s waiver system, saying it has “continued uninterrupted and was never paused.”
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Sara Jervingsarajerving
Sara Jerving is a Senior Reporter at Devex, where she covers global health. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, VICE News, and Bloomberg News among others. Sara holds a master's degree from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism where she was a Lorana Sullivan fellow. She was a finalist for One World Media's Digital Media Award in 2021; a finalist for the Livingston Award for Young Journalists in 2018; and she was part of a VICE News Tonight on HBO team that received an Emmy nomination in 2018. She received the Philip Greer Memorial Award from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in 2014.
