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President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee would oversee agencies that modulate food, vaccines and medicine and were instrumental during the pandemic.
Nov. 14, 2024, 10:47 p.m. ET
When President-elect Donald J. Trump announced connected Thursday that helium would nominate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to pb the Department of Health and Human Services, questions instantly arose about however the section would change if it were to beryllium led by idiosyncratic who has expressed skepticism toward vaccines and a absorption to nationalist wellness measures.
If confirmed, Mr. Kennedy, who ended his statesmanlike campaign successful August and endorsed Mr. Trump, would tally a section whose divisions negociate billions of dollars and modulate the nation’s food, medications, vaccines and aesculapian treatments.
The H.H.S. oversees 13 divisions that administer services and behaviour probe done assorted agencies and offices, including:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The C.D.C. helps way food-borne illnesses, makes recommendations connected vaccines and tracks outbreaks of infectious diseases specified arsenic the flu and measles. For instance, the bureau precocious coordinated with states to way illnesses and coordinate the effect to a listeria outbreak related to Boar’s Head meat, and to an E. coli outbreak related to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders.
The bureau besides inspects nationalist wellness labs and oversees information protocols meant to safeguard the nationalist from laboratory leaks of infectious diseases.
The C.D.C. oversees 10 centers and institutes, including the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health. NIOSH helps usher the authorities connected regulations meant to forestall work-related injuries and illnesses done probe and recommendations. NIOSH was established alongside the Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration to collaborate on enactment information issues.
National Institutes of Health
The N.I.H. wields billions of dollars successful backing for studies connected the attraction of diseases specified arsenic crab and Alzheimer’s. The bureau besides supports studies astatine universities and basal subject that tin signifier the backbone of caller treatments and technologies.