Trump Administration Appoints Vaccine Skeptic as CDC's No. 2 -- WSJ

Dow Jones
2025/11/26

By Alyssa Lukpat and Jennifer Calfas

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention appointed Louisiana Surgeon General Dr. Ralph Abraham as the second in command, the latest move in a year of upheaval for the agency.

Abraham, a vaccine skeptic, has been named the deputy principal director of the CDC. The agency has shuffled through multiple leaders since Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., also a vaccine skeptic, began overseeing the CDC earlier this year.

Abraham was appointed the Louisiana surgeon general last year and later criticized government vaccine mandates. He condemned Covid-19 vaccine mandates earlier this year as "an offense against personal autonomy that will take years to overcome."

He represented Louisiana in Congress from 2015 to 2021 and is both a veterinarian and a family-medicine doctor.

Write to Alyssa Lukpat at alyssa.lukpat@wsj.com and Jennifer Calfas at jennifer.calfas@wsj.com

 

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November 25, 2025 15:47 ET (20:47 GMT)

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