白宫解职疾控中心主任Monarez 她宣誓就职还不到一个月
2025年8月27日，美国卫生与公众服务部在社交平台发文，称 Susan Monarez 已不再担任疾病控制与预防中心主任。当晚，白宫确认已将她解职。Monarez 7月31日才宣誓就职，任职不到一个月，是这家有79年历史的机构任期最短的主任。
卫生与公众服务部的帖文写道，Monarez 已不再担任疾控中心主任，感谢她为美国人民所做的服务，并称部长 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. 对疾控中心团队充满信心。Monarez 的律师 Mark Zaid 与 Abbe Lowell 随即发表声明说，当 Monarez 拒绝为不科学、鲁莽的指令背书、拒绝解雇敬业的卫生专家时，她选择了保护公众，而不是服务于政治议程，因此成为针对目标；声明说，她既没有辞职，也没有收到白宫的解职通知，作为一个正直、忠于科学的人，她不会辞职。
白宫发言人 Kush Desai 当晚在声明中说，从她律师的声明可以清楚看出，Monarez 与总统让美国再次健康的议程不一致；由于 Monarez 在已向卫生部领导层表示有意辞职后仍拒绝辞职，白宫已终止她在疾控中心的职务。律师方面随后表示，Monarez 当晚接到白宫人事办公室工作人员的解职通知，但他们认为这一通知在法律上站不住脚，因为经参议院确认的官员只能由总统本人解职。
同一周，至少四名疾控中心高级官员相继辞职：副主任兼首席医疗官 Debra Houry、国家新发与人畜共患传染病中心主任 Daniel Jernigan、国家免疫与呼吸系统疾病中心主任 Demetre Daskalakis，以及公共卫生数据、监测与技术办公室主任 Jennifer Layden。
据《华盛顿邮报》率先报道，Kennedy 曾要求 Monarez 承诺支持他对疫苗政策的调整，包括预先批准疫苗咨询委员会的建议，并要求她解雇多名高级官员，Monarez 拒绝后被要求辞职。卫生与公众服务部没有说明 Monarez 离职的原因，也没有回应这几起辞职。
Monarez 现年50岁，是疾控中心第21任主任。她自今年1月起担任代理主任，3月获特朗普提名，7月29日经参议院以51票对47票、按党派界线确认，是2023年法律生效后首位须经参议院确认的疾控中心主任，7月31日由 Kennedy 监誓就职。
（来源：美国卫生与公众服务部）
White House Fires CDC Director Susan Monarez Less Than a Month After She Was Sworn In
On August 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced in a social media post that Susan Monarez was no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That night, the White House confirmed that she had been fired. Monarez had been sworn in on July 31, less than a month earlier, making her the shortest-serving director in the 79-year history of the agency.
The department's post said Monarez was no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, thanked her for her dedicated service to the American people, and said Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. had full confidence in his team at the CDC. Her attorneys, Mark Zaid and Abbe Lowell, responded with a statement saying that when Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts, she chose protecting the public over serving a political agenda, and for that she had been targeted; the statement said she had neither resigned nor received notification from the White House that she had been fired, and that, as a person of integrity devoted to science, she would not resign.
White House spokesman Kush Desai said in a statement that night that, as her attorneys' statement made abundantly clear, Monarez was not aligned with the President's agenda of Making America Healthy Again, and that since she had refused to resign despite informing HHS leadership of her intent to do so, the White House had terminated her from her position with the CDC. Her attorneys later said Monarez was notified that night by a White House staffer in the personnel office that she was fired, but they rejected the notification as legally deficient, arguing that a Senate-confirmed official can be fired only by the president himself.
In the same week, at least four senior CDC officials resigned: Debra Houry, the deputy director and chief medical officer; Daniel Jernigan, director of the National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases; Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases; and Jennifer Layden, director of the Office of Public Health Data, Surveillance, and Technology.
The Washington Post first reported that Secretary Kennedy had pressed Monarez to commit to supporting his changes to vaccine policy, including pre-approving recommendations from the vaccine advisory committee, and to fire senior officials, and that she was asked to resign after she refused. The Department of Health and Human Services gave no reason for Monarez's departure and did not address the resignations.
Monarez, 50, was the CDC's 21st director. She had served as acting director since January, was nominated by President Trump in March, and was confirmed by the Senate 51 to 47 on July 29, the first CDC director to go through Senate confirmation under a 2023 law. She was sworn in by Secretary Kennedy on July 31.
(Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services)
来源：美国卫生与公众服务部
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图片来源：图：位于佐治亚州亚特兰大的美国疾病控制与预防中心总部 Edward R. Roybal 园区主入口，画面右侧为总部大楼、中央为疾控中心标牌。Daniel Mayer 摄，CC BY-SA 3.0，经 Wikimedia Commons。 / Photo: The main entrance of the Edward R. Roybal Campus, headquarters of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, with the headquarters building at right and the CDC sign at center. Photo by Daniel Mayer, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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