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Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz as CDC director 2026 on Thursday, tapping a former Navy rear admiral and deputy surgeon general from his first term to lead an agency that has cycled through four leaders in the past 12 months and remains without a Senate-confirmed director since Dr. Susan Monarez was fired last August. Summary Schwartz, 57, holds a medical degree from Brown University, a law degree, and a master’s in public health from the Uniformed Services University, and spent 24 years in uniformed service including as the US Coast Guard’s chief medical officer and as deputy surgeon general from 2019 to early 2021. If confirmed by the Senate, she would become the agency’s second permanent director of Trump’s second term, with acting director Dr. Jay Bhattacharya expected to remain in an interim capacity during the confirmation process, which could take several months. Trump also simultaneously named four additional CDC and HHS leadership appointments including Sean Slovenski, former president of Walmart Health, as CDC deputy director and chief operating officer. The CDC director 2026 nomination arrives at one of the most unstable stretches in the agency’s modern history. The CDC has had no Senate-confirmed permanent director for all but about four weeks of Trump’s second term. Monarez was confirmed in July 2025 and fired just weeks later for reportedly not complying with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s demands on vaccines and personnel. Three acting leaders followed. The 210-day Vacancies Act clock ran out on Bhattacharya’s acting designation last month. Trump called Schwartz “a STAR!” in a Truth Social post Thursday, adding that she had “the knowledge, experience, and TOP degrees to restore the GOLD STANDARD OF SCIENCE at the CDC.” The announcement came on the same day Kennedy testified before the House Ways and Means Committee and made some…

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