{"id":37516,"date":"2025-12-15T23:33:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/newsom-appoints-ex-cdc-officials-to-lead-californias-new-public-health-network\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T23:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T23:33:00","slug":"newsom-appoints-ex-cdc-officials-to-lead-californias-new-public-health-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/newsom-appoints-ex-cdc-officials-to-lead-californias-new-public-health-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsom appoints ex-CDC officials to lead California\u2019s new public health network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration\u2019s dismantling of public health safeguards <\/p>\n<p>Gavin Newsom, the California governor, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.ca.gov\/2025\/12\/15\/governor-newsom-announces-top-former-cdc-officials-to-lead-public-health-innovation-collaboration\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced<\/a> the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Susan Monarez, the former director of the CDC, will lead California\u2019s new public health initiative, the Public Health Network Innovation Exchange (PHNIX).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/dec\/15\/california-public-health-cdc-officials\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Susan Monarez to head PHNIX, a response to Trump administration\u2019s dismantling of public health safeguards Gavin Newsom, the California governor, announced the appointment of two prominent scientists who left the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in recent months over conflicts with the Trump administration to state positions. Dr Susan Monarez, the former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37517,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fast-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-25 21:40:31","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpnewswire.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}