{"id":92575,"date":"2026-08-05T20:00:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-erica-schwartz-as-cdc-director\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T20:00:45","slug":"senate-confirms-erica-schwartz-as-cdc-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/senate-confirms-erica-schwartz-as-cdc-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate confirms Erica Schwartz as CDC director"},"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=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Dr. Erica Schwartz as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, giving the CDC its first official director in nearly a year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz was confirmed Wednesday by a vote of 51 to 44. The CDC has been without a Senate-confirmed director since late August 2025, when former director Susan Monarez was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/cdc-director-susan-monarez-ousted\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">ousted<\/a> just 29 days into the job. National Institutes of Health Director\u00a0Jay Bhattacharya had also been serving as acting CDC director since February.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, a retired Navy rear admiral, is a former deputy surgeon general with extensive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dcms.uscg.mil\/Portals\/10\/senior_leaders\/bio\/EricaSchwartz.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">experience overseeing<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. Coast Guard&#8217;s health care system.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She holds a bachelor&#8217;s degree in biomedical engineering from Brown University, an M.D. from Brown University, and a law degree from the University of Maryland. She has experience responding to pandemics, including outbreaks of Ebola and H1N1, according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz will be the first Black woman to run the CDC.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Monarez, her predecessor, testified that she was pushed out of the agency because she declined to follow Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.&#8217;s vaccine recommendations, which she said were <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/debra-houry-cdc-measles-outbreak-rfk-jr\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">not based on science<\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz enters the job amid concerns about the Ebola outbreak in Africa, and as the Trump administration faces criticism over vaccine recommendations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<p class=\"content__meta--contributors\">\n<p>                      <span class=\"byline__author__text\">Alan  He<\/span><\/p>\n<p>        contributed to this report.\n    <\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free 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