Hundreds of federal health workers, including doctors in senior leadership positions, began to hear early on Tuesday morning that they were losing their jobs, part of a huge restructuring that will win the organizations accused of regulating food and regulations.
Health Minister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. He announced last week that he was shrinking his section by 10,000 employees. Some senior leaders based in the Washington region, DC, received alerts that they were renewed with India Health Territories, a tactic to force people, officials said, because it would mean to move to other parts of the country.
Combined with previous departures, redundancies will reduce the section from 82,000 to 62,000 employees. The section did not immediately respond to a request for comments.
Alerts began to reach 5am, the workers said, affecting offices responsible for everything, from global health to medical devices to communications. Some knew that the layoffs were coming. At the headquarters of the Department in Washington, responsible for preventing minorities and infectious diseases said on Friday that their offices had been eliminated, according to employees.
Others had been removed. In the Food and Drug Administration, senior leaders were pushed out and the offices focused on the policy of food, drug and medical appliances were hit with deep reductions of staff amounting to approximately 3,500 members of the organization’s staff. Some workers said they discovered that they were fired when they tried to scan their mark to enter the building early Tuesday.
The leading tobacco regulator, Brian King, was offered work with a regional office of the Indian Health Service that includes Alaska, according to Mitch Zeller, his predecessor in the department. Another staff who oversees veterinary medicine and coordinates the complex task of revising new drug applications that can work for thousands of pages.
Some leaders at the Disease Control and Prevention Centers, including Kayla Laserson, who led the World Health Center, received similar renewal announcements or were placed on administrative license. At the agency, the reorganization, with cuts of 2,400, appeared to be aimed at reducing its focus on infectious diseases. Whole sections studying chronic diseases and environmental problems were cut.
Employees who were fired at the organization included those who studied injuries, asthma, lead poisoning, smoking and radiation damage, as well as those who evaluate the effects of extreme heat and fires.
But some groups of infectious diseases were also fired. A group focused on improving access to vaccines between inadequate communities, such as a group of world health researchers who worked to prevent the mother in the transmission of HIV child
The prevention of HIV was a great goal as a whole. Jonathan Mermin, director of the HIV Center and sexually transmitted diseases, was put on administrative license. Trump’s administration weighs the movement of the CDC HIV Prevention Department to a different service in the Department of Health. On Tuesday, however, the groups that led to HIV surveillance and research in this division were fired. It was not clear if some of these functions would be recreated elsewhere.
At the National Institutes of Health, they received alerts to renewal in Indian Health Service and told them that they should report Wednesday on Wednesday on whether to accept the traffic.
Among them was Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, who succeeded Dr. Anthony S. Fauci as director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and Shannon Zenk, who is leading the National Institute of Nursing Research.
The communications offices were particularly harsh in all organizations, including NIH, CDC and FDA Renate Myles, communications manager at the National Institute of Health, a review announcement. Mr Kennedy, who promised “radical transparency”, said he wanted to consolidate communications under his competence.
The HHS “brings together communications throughout the department to secure a more coordinated and effective response to the challenges of public health, which ultimately benefits the US taxpayer,” said Emily Hilliard, Deputy Secretary for the Department.
