U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., seen here at a hearing at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. in September. He allegedly pushed now-former Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, Director Susan Monarez to resign only a month after she was given the job. Photo by Bonnie Cash/UPI | License Photo
Sept. 10 (UPI) -- Former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez will testify before the Senate about the organization she briefly ran.
Monarez will appear on Sept. 17 before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, along with Deb Houry, the former Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science at CDC. Houry resigned her position to protest Monarez's termination.
The two are slated to discuss their time at the CDC to offer testimony regarding their take on the state of the agency.
"To protect children's health, Americans need to know what has happened and is happening at the CDC," said Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., chairperson of the HELP Committee, in a press release Tuesday. "They need to be reassured that their child's health is given priority. Radical transparency is the only way to do that."
