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FDA Names Permanent Heads for Key Leadership Roles
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In Short: The Trump administration has permanently appointed officials to lead critical centers at the Food and Drug Administration.
According to STAT, these officials, who have been serving in acting capacities, will now take on these roles permanently. The appointments come as the administration seeks to solidify leadership at the FDA, an agency crucial for regulating drugs and vaccines.
In a separate development, the Holy See’s Permanent Observer Mission to the U.N. expressed concern over the current 'culture of power' and called for a 'culture of peace' that includes a greater role for women in healing societies fractured by violence and chaos.
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- WASHINGTON — The Trump administration permanently filled four key leadership roles at the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday, after it nominated Heidi Overton to lead the agency late last month.
- They are Michael Davis, a psychiatrist who will be director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research; former Merck official Karim Mikhail, who will be director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research; and Bret Koplow, an attorney who has been at the FDA since 2011 and will serve as director of the Center for Tobacco Products.
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- With this dynamic overtaking “diplomacy based on respectful dialogue,” said the Holy See U.N. mission, “it is crucial to foster a culture of peace that challenges the current ‘culture of power.'” “Women can and should play a much greater role in all these processes which are intended to heal societies fractured by violence and chaos,” the mission said in its statement.
- “Potentially millions of American voters may not receive their mail-in ballot this election cycle in a timely manner, or at all,” the unidentified whistleblower alleged in a statement published Tuesday by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), the ranking Democrat on the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations.
- The agency has spent months developing its portal “to provide election officials with a simple, secure, and efficient way to share lists of individuals receiving ballots by mail in their respective states,” and is “now finalizing the portal and will soon make it available to election officials who voluntarily wish to familiarize themselves with the platform,” the spokesperson said.