If confirmed by the full Senate, Monarez would be the first CDC director to go through Senate confirmation, a process put ...

She was formally nominated in March after President Donald Trump withdrew his initial pick, former Rep. David Weldon.

The U.S. Senate’s health committee voted Wednesday to advance the nomination of Dr. Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, moving her one step closer to becoming the ...

She holds a doctorate in microbiology and immunology from the University of Wisconsin, and a postdoctoral researcher at ...

A U.S. Senate committee has approved Susan Monarez to be President Donald Trump’s director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Senate’s health committee voted 12-11 Wednesday ...

The Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee has voted to advance President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the CDC. Susan Monarez, Ph.D., ...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Wednesday tallied the highest number of US measles cases since the ...

President Donald Trump’s candidate to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advanced out of a Senate committee Wednesday following a party-line vote, moving her one step ...

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Former GOP leader Mitch McConnell is back at the Senate Appropriations table for the first time in two decades today as the ...

After months of promises to overhaul or eliminate the FEMA, President Donald Trump is touting a fast and robust federal ...