Before their firings, the CDC had been working for two months to address hazardous levels of lead in school buildings.

A protest erupted outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Roybal campus in Atlanta Tuesday as employees ...

Public health experts say the CDC cuts could represent generational damage to health research and the elimination of infectious diseases.

HHS has been embroiled in rumors of mass firings, the revocation of $11 billion in public health funding for cities and counties, a tepid response to a measles outbreak, and controversial remarks ...

ATLANTA — Former employees are rallying outside the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after layoffs on Tuesday. One former employee, Evelyn Olansky, said they wanted to get into ...

Employees across the massive U.S. Health and Human Services Department received notices Tuesday that their jobs were being eliminated, part of a sweeping overhaul designed to vastly shrink the ...

The departures were announced at a meeting of agency senior leaders. The Atlanta-based CDC has two dozen centers and offices. The heads of five of them are stepping down, and that follows three ...

Other recent departures include the CDC's top communications officer, its chief operating officer and a former deputy director. Based in Atlanta, the CDC has a $9 billion budget and more than 13,000 ...

The changes come as part of a sweeping overhaul of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced by Health ...

ATLANTA — Five high-level officials at the Atlanta-based CDC (Centers For Disease Control and Prevention) announced they are leaving during a meeting of agency senior leaders on Tuesday.