Health Official Tapped to Be Acting Director of CDC

President Donald Trump recently fired the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s director.

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. conducts the swearing-in ceremony of Jim O'Neill as the Department's Deputy Secretary in Washington DC, on June 9, 2025. Amy Rossetti/Department of Health and Human Services via AP

A Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official has been selected to serve as acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, several days after President Donald Trump fired the agency’s director.

Trump has chosen HHS Deputy Secretary Jim O'Neill as the CDC’s acting director, two administration officials told The Epoch Times on Aug. 29.