Adalja is an infectious disease physician and a senior scholar at the Center for Health Security ... and it would risk the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention becoming a partisan institution.

The tobacco center’s entire management and regulation divisions were cut, as were the majority of staff at the Office of Smoking and Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Kennedy has warned of an epidemic of chronic disease, but the budget blueprint would close the C.D.C. center focused on prevention. By Apoorva Mandavilli and Roni Caryn Rabin Robert F. Kennedy Jr ...