First came Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s ouster of a top official at the Department of Health and Human Services’ vaccine division. Then, the HHS chief pushed out the people overseeing new drug reviews and tobacco, while placing on leave Anthony Fauci’s successor at the National Institutes of Health.
The efforts to push out senior leaders overseeing scientific research and reviews of medicines and tobacco products go further than the effort to streamline the department that agency officials had publicly described.
The sweeping cuts also allow Kennedy to reshape the country’s health policy and communications, providing a road map for where the new health chief is directing his focus. Among the 10,000 people cut on Tuesday, some entire divisions were gutted including groups working on sexually transmitted diseases, environmental health, global health and birth defects, according to people familiar with the matter. Big swaths of the agency’s communications and federal records teams were also laid off.
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