The United States Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions voted to advance the nominations of probable new NIH and FDA leaders to the full senate.
In last week’s hearings, committee members questioned Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, who was nominated to be NIH director, and Martin Makary, MD, MPH, who was nominated to be the next FDA commissioner.
In his opening statement, Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, MD, a Republican from Louisiana, supported the selections and cited the recent measles outbreak as evidence that “the American people's trust in public health