美国总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)周四提名前副卫生部长埃里卡·施瓦茨(Erica Schwartz)博士(Dr. Erica Schwartz)为美国疾病控制和预防中心(CDC)新主任。
特朗普在Truth Social的一篇帖子中写道:“我很荣幸提名才华横溢的艾丽卡·施瓦茨博士担任我的疾病预防控制中心主任。”
如果得到参议院的确认，施瓦茨将接替美国国立卫生研究院(NIH)院长杰伊·巴塔查里亚(Jay Bhattacharya)博士，后者于今年2月接任美国疾控中心代理主任。
施瓦茨获得了布朗大学的医学学位，并在美国海军服役至2005年。
她在军队服役美国公共卫生服务中心(U.S. Public Health Service)在第一届川普政府期间，于2019年至2021年初任命Corps担任海岸警卫队首席医疗官和副医务总监。
川普还在《真相社会邮报》上宣布了对其他疾病预防控制中心和HHS职位的新任命。
特朗普写道:“这些备受尊敬的医学博士拥有知识、经验和顶级学位，可以恢复疾病预防控制中心的科学黄金标准，这是一场绝对的灾难，集中在瞌睡虫乔的“授权”上。”“在我们继续让美国再次变得健康和伟大的时候，他们将一起领导疾病预防控制中心做好大量的工作!”
施瓦茨是第四个被提名的人或者提名从去年夏天开始担任疾控中心主任。
苏珊·莫纳雷斯博士确认为疾控中心主任2025年7月，但她任职不到一个月。据报道，Monarez被肯尼迪解雇，因为他没有批准卫生部长的疫苗议程，也没有解雇他反对的疾控中心的高级领导人。
这场混乱导致肯尼迪和莫纳雷斯都出现在参议院委员会面前，以解决驱逐问题。
在2025年9月的参议院听证会上，莫纳雷斯说她因“坚守科学诚信”被特朗普和肯尼迪解雇。
肯尼迪，在在另一个参议院小组的听证会上当月早些时候，莫纳雷斯对事件的说法提出了质疑。他否认在没有科学证据的情况下告诉Monarez接受疫苗建议，并声称她被解雇部分是因为她告诉他她不值得信任。
莫纳瑞兹被解雇后，曾担任甘乃迪的HHS副秘书的吉姆·奥尼尔被解雇被任命为疾控中心代理主任并签署了疾病预防控制中心的决定，以减少儿童疫苗的建议数量，并取消出生时乙肝疫苗的普遍建议。
这些决定是后来的临时地堵塞的被一名联邦法官。
一名白宫官员今年早些时候告诉ABC新闻，Bhattacharya将接任CDC的负责人，奥尼尔将被提名为国家科学基金会的下一任负责人。
Trump nominates Dr. Erica Schwartz as new CDC director
President Donald Trump nominated Dr. Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, on Thursday as the new director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
"It is my Honor to nominate the incredibly talented Dr. Erica Schwartz as my Director of the CDC," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
If confirmed by the Senate,Schwartz would replace Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), who took over as acting CDC director in February.
Schwartz earned a medical degree from Brown University and served in the U.S. Navy until 2005.
She served in theU.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as the Coast Guard Chief Medical Officer and as Deputy Surgeon General from 2019 to early 2021, during the first Trump administration.
Trump also announced new appointments to other CDC and HHS positions in the Truth Social post.
"These Highly Respected Doctors of Medicine have the knowledge, experience, and TOP degrees to restore the GOLD STANDARD OF SCIENCE at the CDC, which was an absolute disaster focused on “mandates” under Sleepy Joe," Trump wrote. "Together, they will do a TREMENDOUS job leading the CDC as we continue to MAKE AMERICA HEALTHY AND GREAT AGAIN!"
Schwartz is the fourth person namedor nominatedas head of the CDC since last summer.
Dr. Susan Monarez wasconfirmed as CDC directorin July 2025, but she held the post for less than a month. Monarez was fired by Kennedy for reportedly not rubber-stamping the health secretary's vaccine agenda or firing high-ranking CDC leaders whom he opposed.
The turmoil led to both Kennedy and Monarez appearing in front of Senate committees to address the ousting.
At a Senate hearing in September 2025,Monarez saidshe was fired by Trump and Kennedy for "holding the line on scientific integrity."
Kennedy, in ahearing before a different Senate panelearlier that month, disputed Monarez's version of events. He denied telling Monarez to accept vaccine recommendations without scientific evidence, and claimed she was fired in part because she told him she was untrustworthy.
After Monarez was fired, Jim O'Neill, who served as Kennedy's HHS deputy secretary, wasnamed as acting CDC directorand signed off on the CDC decision to reduce the number of vaccines recommended for children and remove the universal recommendation for the hepatitis B vaccine at birth.
These decisions were latertemporarilyblockedby a federal judge.
A White House official told ABC News earlier this year that Bhattacharya would take over as head of the CDC and O'Neill would be nominated as the next head of the National Science Foundation.
