{"id":295479,"date":"2026-02-13T05:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295479\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T05:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T05:27:21","slug":"time100-health-susan-monarez-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/295479\/","title":{"rendered":"TIME100 Health: Susan Monarez | TIME"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Susan Monarez was fired in August 2025 as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a move that drew attention amid broader debates over the direction of federal health policy under the Trump administration. That her dismissal was followed by the resignations of several other senior <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/7338714\/dr-debra-houry-essay-cdc\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CDC officials<\/a> underscored internal tensions over policy and governance at the agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text mb-6 self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">Monarez says she was removed after resisting what she describes as pressure to sign off on vaccine recommendations without reviewing scientific data. \u201cMy core principles are integrity and trust,\u201d Monarez says. \u201cI had not anticipated that I would be put in such a stark decision-making position.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"rich-text self-baseline font-graphik text-body-large text-black-coffee mb-0 focus-visible:outline focus-visible:outline-black-coffee focus-visible:outline-2 focus-visible:outline-offset-2 focus-visible:shadow-focus-color text-left\" data-testid=\"paragraph-content\">A microbiologist by training and longtime civil servant, Monarez testified in September before a Senate committee that she was fired by U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. after declining his requests to pre-approve vaccine recommendations and dismiss career scientists involved in vaccine policy. \u201cEven under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology,\u201d she told lawmakers. Kennedy denied her allegations in Senate testimony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susan Monarez was fired in August 2025 as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[47092,9810,103,397,396,61,60,28976,709,47094,12277,139977],"class_list":{"0":"post-295479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-accolades","9":"tag-franchise","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-health-care","12":"tag-healthcare","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-list","16":"tag-magazine","17":"tag-special-project","18":"tag-sponsorshipblock","19":"tag-time100-health-2026"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}