{"id":72191,"date":"2026-03-26T00:12:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cdcs-acting-chief-promises-a-return-to-stability-in-a-tumultuous-moment\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T00:12:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T00:12:18","slug":"cdcs-acting-chief-promises-a-return-to-stability-in-a-tumultuous-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/cdcs-acting-chief-promises-a-return-to-stability-in-a-tumultuous-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"CDC&#8217;s acting chief promises a return to stability in a tumultuous moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>President Donald Trump will soon nominate a permanent director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, its acting chief, National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, told agency employees at a Wednesday staff meeting.<\/p>\n<p>According to a recording obtained by KFF Health News, Dr. Bhattacharya told CDC staff that President Trump could name a new leader for the agency as soon as Thursday. &#8220;But if not, I don&#8217;t think much will change,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Though his official position as acting director was set to expire Wednesday, Dr. Bhattacharya will continue to lead the agency until the top spot is filled. Meanwhile, news outlets including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.axios.com\/2026\/03\/25\/white-house-trump-cdc-director-bhattacharya\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Axios<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2026\/03\/25\/cdc-nomination-delayed-jay-bhattacharya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Post<\/a> reported that the administration was postponing filling the permanent director job amid the challenges of gaining Senate confirmation and other political pressures. <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bhattacharya opened the meeting by acknowledging <a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/news\/article\/cdc-atlanta-public-health-one-year-later-firings-shooting-morale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the struggles the beleaguered agency has faced<\/a> over the past year. Workers faced multiple rounds of job losses, and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/georgia-atlanta-shooting-cdc-emory-university-what-we-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">a gunman attacked<\/a><\/span> the CDC&#8217;s Atlanta campus in August, killing a police officer and causing significant property damage. &#8220;I want to acknowledge very honestly that I know that it has been such a difficult year for the CDC and for every single one of you here,&#8221; Dr. Bhattacharya said.<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency has begun to fill its leadership gaps. During his first meeting with the agency&#8217;s top leaders, he said, &#8220;I noticed almost every single one of them is acting.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve made progress in filling key roles across the agency,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Leadership stability is essential to delivering our mission.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The aim, he said, is to leave the agency in &#8220;a solid, secure place&#8221; so it can do its work &#8220;without so much of the turmoil that we&#8217;ve seen the last year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/26\/f6ac8f65-72aa-4ba4-a5c6-4fee9351c9c1\/thumbnail\/620x413\/79c84a6f3e58ba349971990cd1723480\/bhattacharya.jpg#\" alt=\"bhattacharya.jpg \" height=\"413\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/26\/f6ac8f65-72aa-4ba4-a5c6-4fee9351c9c1\/thumbnail\/620x413\/79c84a6f3e58ba349971990cd1723480\/bhattacharya.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2026\/03\/26\/f6ac8f65-72aa-4ba4-a5c6-4fee9351c9c1\/thumbnail\/1240x826\/73bca8e8e33ea7ab231ff780045f3dc8\/bhattacharya.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health, has also been serving as acting director of the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention since February.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                Eric Harkleroad\/KFF Health News<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dr. Bhattacharya invited questions from the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cdc-staff-shooting-harassment-vaccine-panel-layoffs\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">CDC staffers<\/a><\/span>, who repeatedly asked about staffing losses, morale, and their job security, as well as Mr. Trump&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/us-withdraws-world-health-organization\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">decision to withdraw<\/a><\/span> from the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The politics of WHO withdrawal are above my pay grade,&#8221; Dr. Bhattacharya said. &#8220;What I do know is that without the CDC, the world will be in much worse health.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Workforce concerns<\/h2>\n<p>One employee told Dr. Bhattacharya the agency had lost a &#8220;huge amount&#8221; of &#8220;internal capacity and expertise in the past year&#8221; and it &#8220;continues to be very challenging for staff to do their jobs,&#8221; adding that &#8220;certain conditions are a bit demoralizing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CDC can &#8220;function without leaders,&#8221; another speaker said. &#8220;We function without directors. And this entire team will make CDC run without you if you&#8217;re not here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/donald-trump-executive-order-schedule-f-unions\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Schedule F,<\/a><\/span> an effort to reclassify certain federal employees in policy-related roles and reduce their civil service protections, drew some of the strongest statements from the staff. While it&#8217;s not fully implemented, the policy <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-administration-reclassifying-civil-servants-fire\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">could make it easier<\/a><\/span> for Mr. Trump to fire thousands of federal workers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s scaring the hell out of us right now is Schedule F,&#8221; an employee said. &#8220;We are terrified that &#8216;at will&#8217; means you&#8217;re gone, you&#8217;re not here, you&#8217;re fired.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Schedule F fight&#8217;s above my level,&#8221; Dr. Bhattacharya replied. He said his focus is on making sure the &#8220;work is supported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said the agency should seek to &#8220;depoliticize what we do fundamentally&#8221; so that &#8220;every American sees us as working for their benefit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I say &#8216;depoliticize,&#8217; I don&#8217;t mean you can&#8217;t say the hard or talk about the hard things,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I mean that you&#8217;re free to talk about the hard things without fear that you&#8217;re gonna be retaliated against.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On hiring and operations, he pointed to ongoing efforts but acknowledged delays. The Department of Health and Human Services, which oversees the CDC, is &#8220;moving at the speed of bureaucracy,&#8221; he said, adding that he&#8217;s trying his best. &#8220;We have to move past the last year, and I think we now have an opportunity really to do that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Vaccine policy<\/h2>\n<p>On vaccines, Dr. Bhattacharya said one of the first things he did in his role as acting CDC director was to record a video &#8220;strongly encouraging parents to vaccinate their kids from measles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He said rebuilding trust requires engagement. That means working with communities without denigrating them, and respecting how &#8220;they think and their values,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bhattacharya said he would like the NIH and CDC to coordinate more, particularly on HIV prevention. He described his approach as &#8220;an implementation science strategy so that we can use these two pieces of the HIV tool kit to actually end the HIV pandemic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The search for a permanent CDC director is being led by HHS officials on behalf of the White House and Health and Human Services Secretary <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/judge-blocks-parts-of-rfk-jrs-vaccine-agenda-including-new-childhood-vaccine-schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Robert F. Kennedy Jr.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bhattacharya said he&#8217;s friends with Kennedy and called &#8220;the caricature of him that I&#8217;ve seen in the press&#8221; unfair. Kennedy &#8220;really does have a deep desire to make America healthy,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>For now, Dr. Bhattacharya said, he expects to stay in place at the CDC, as &#8220;either acting director or acting in the capacity of the director, whatever the heck that means.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He joked about the ambiguity: &#8220;It&#8217;s like an &#8216;Office&#8217; episode, you know?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kffhealthnews.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>KFF Health News<\/em><\/a><em> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/about-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>KFF<\/em><\/a><em> \u2014 the independent source for health policy research, polling, and journalism.<\/em><\/p>\n<section 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