Trump taps White House health adviser to helm FDA amid vaccine policy battles
TL;DR
President Trump has nominated Dr. Heidi Overton, a White House health adviser, to be the next FDA commissioner. If confirmed, she would succeed Marty Makary and lead the agency during ongoing vaccine-policy changes, debates over abortion-pill access, and food-safety concerns after a multistate cyclospora outbreak. Overton has publicly supported the administration’s push to reduce standard childhood vaccines and has ties to conservative policy circles.
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