Wednesday, December 24, 2008
December 24 News Story 1
U.S. Public Health Agency Leaders Being Changed
It has been recently reported in the New York Times that the leaders of a number of U.S. government public health agencies are expected to resign or be terminated as President-elect Obama's team takes control of the White House.
Reportedly, for each one of these leaders, there are harsh critics on Capitol Hill and in the public health community.
Furthermore, based on background investigation into this report, there have been repeated charges that the Bush administration has let politics play a major role in science policy.
To this effect, as of Tuesday, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach said he would resign on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. Dr. Elias Zerhouni has already left his position as director of the National Institutes of Health, and it's widely expected that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Julie Gerberding will be replaced by the new administration.
The Times reported that upon, delving further into this report, the National Cancer Institute director Dr. John E. Niederhuber is expected to surrender his post, but may remain at the institute.
To conclude this report, Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, told the Times: "The FDA has increasingly lost its emphasis on public health, and all of us have been harmed as a result."
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It has been recently reported in the New York Times that the leaders of a number of U.S. government public health agencies are expected to resign or be terminated as President-elect Obama's team takes control of the White House.
Reportedly, for each one of these leaders, there are harsh critics on Capitol Hill and in the public health community.
Furthermore, based on background investigation into this report, there have been repeated charges that the Bush administration has let politics play a major role in science policy.
To this effect, as of Tuesday, Food and Drug Administration commissioner Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach said he would resign on Inauguration Day, Jan. 20. Dr. Elias Zerhouni has already left his position as director of the National Institutes of Health, and it's widely expected that Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Dr. Julie Gerberding will be replaced by the new administration.
The Times reported that upon, delving further into this report, the National Cancer Institute director Dr. John E. Niederhuber is expected to surrender his post, but may remain at the institute.
To conclude this report, Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Research Center for Women and Families, told the Times: "The FDA has increasingly lost its emphasis on public health, and all of us have been harmed as a result."
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