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WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated Dr. Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, selecting a surgeon and author who gained national attention for opposing vaccine mandates and some other public health measures during the COVID-19 pandemic.
If confirmed, Makary would be expected to report to anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Trump's pick to oversee the nation’s Department of Health and Human Services, which includes the FDA. Makary does not share Kennedy’s discredited views on vaccines, but he has a similar distrust of the pharmaceutical industry.
Martin Adel Makary (/ m ə ˈ k æ r i /) is a British-American surgeon, professor, author, and medical commentator.He practices surgical oncology and gastrointestinal laparoscopic surgery at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, is Mark Ravitch Chair in Gastrointestinal Surgery at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and is the chief of Islet Transplant Surgery at Johns Hopkins.
Trump named Dr. Janette Nesheiwat as US surgeon general; Dr. Marty Makary as US Food and Drug Administration commissioner; Dr. Dave Weldon, a former congressman from Florida, as director of the US ...
President-elect Trump has picked Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins’s surgeon who has espoused contrarian views about the COVID-19 pandemic, to lead the Federal Drug Administration. Makary is a ...
President-elect Donald Trump announced Friday that he has picked Dr. Martin Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon as Food and Drug Administration commissioner. “FDA has lost the trust of Americans and ...
The DOH subsequently banned the vaccine's use and sale in the Philippines. [6] The scare caused by the controversy has been suggested as a factor in the country's loss of confidence in vaccines and low immunization rates, [7] resulting in an infectious disease crisis in the country in 2019, [8] including a measles outbreak. [9]
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