{"id":51532,"date":"2026-04-15T15:24:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51532"},"modified":"2026-04-15T15:24:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T15:24:42","slug":"dr-erica-schwartz-emerges-as-white-houses-top-pick-for-cdc-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=51532","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Erica Schwartz emerges as White House&#8217;s top pick for CDC leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-0\">\n  <!-- lil observer --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body\">\n<p>Dr. Erica Schwartz has emerged as the White House&#8217;s top pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to current and former officials.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz, a Coast Guard rear admiral, served as deputy Surgeon General in the first Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Schwartz spent 24 years in the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps. She is a graduate of Brown University&#8217;s medical school and has a law degree from the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/em><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n        <\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/dr-erica-schwartz-potential-cdc-leader-trump-administration\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Erica Schwartz has emerged as the White House&#8217;s top pick to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to current and former officials.\u00a0&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/51533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}