President-elect Donald Trump on Friday night named three doctors to oversee the nation’s vaccine supply, disease response and other responsibilities central to America’s public health, plucking physicians who bring a mix of conservative credentials and Fox News appearances.
The flurry of announcements included one long-expected decision: Trump picked Marty Makary, a Johns Hopkins surgeon, to lead the Food and Drug Administration, a roughly $7 billion agency charged with making decisions touching the daily lives of every American. But the president-elect defied some predictions by picking Dave Weldon, an internal medicine physician and former GOP congressman, to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — and surprised many in his own party by announcing Janette Nesheiwat, a family and emergency medicine physician, to be the next U.S. surgeon general.