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

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Nov 26, 2025

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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