CDC deputy director Jennifer Shuford to exit Trump administration after midterms

Jennifer Shuford, who serves as deputy director and chief medical officer of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, is set to resign after the midterm elections. Hired in April, she joins a team that includes former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz, healthcare executive Sean Slovenski, and FDA official Sara Brenner. While one source attributes her departure to a personal family health issue, another suggests it stems from policy disagreements over the administration’s vaccine agenda. President Donald Trump recently announced plans to require vaccine manufacturers to divide certain childhood immunizations into five separate doses, an initiative backed by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Neither the CDC nor the White House provided comments on the matter.