Vaccine policy and misinformation were the main topics of discussion Wednesday during a nomination hearing for two top federal public health positions.
Erica Schwartz, MD, JD, MPH, President Donald J. Trump’s nominee for CDC director, and Sean G. Kaufman, MPH, nominee for assistant secretary for preparedness and response at HHS, testified in front of the Senate’s Health, Education, Labor and Pension committee.
Schwartz served as deputy surgeon general during Trump’s first presidential term. She spent 24 years as an occupational medicine physician in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard and was the