The new head of the CDC has no training in medicine and once helped Peter Thiel develop man-made islands floating outside U.S. territory

O’Neill, Kennedy’s deputy in the Ministry of Health and Humanitarian Services, will replace Susan Monarerez, a long -term government scientist who has been director of the Disease Control Center less than a month ago.

Monares’s lawyers said that she rejected “non -scientific, non -scientific directives, a fire experts from fires.”

O’Neill is the Acting Director of Acting Agency, and Kennedy’s resignation and resignation to reshape the country’s policies in the country to match his long doubts about the safety and effectiveness of the long shots.

A HHS spokesman said on Friday that O’Neill will continue to work as a deputy ministry, but he did not provide details about his new role.

Previously participated in businessmen in the field of technology billionaire Peter Thil, previously helped to manage a Thiel investment fund and later managed many of his other projects. This non -profit organization that works to develop human -made islands float outside the American region, allowing them to experience new forms of government.

It has no training in medicine or health care and holds a Bachelor’s degree and Master’s degree in Humanities.

From the inside in Washington in a team of strangers

O’Neill kept a significantly lower area than the senior health officials in Trump, who all joined the administration as foreigners in Washington. He is also the only person with experience in HHS, as he served for six years during the era of President George W. Bush.

Those who know him say it is likely to be charged with trying to calm the situation in the center of diseases control – although it is unclear what Kennedy will get.

“Jim O’Neil is a professional in health care policy and I don’t think anyone can accuse him of being the RFK JR. Sock Pupet.”. “The question becomes whether the role of the director of the Disease Control Center becomes the position of strict paper tiger, as the person does not only do what the Secretary said.”

O’Neill is not closely related to the “Make Americ Healthy” and its efforts against food dyes, fluoride and highly treated foods.

He was also not a major critic of public health measures during the epidemic, unlike the head of the Food and Drug Administration Marti Macari and other Trump officials. Although O’Neil used social media to criticize the efforts of the FDA to stop the description of unproven treatments for Covid-19, including anti-parasite drugs.

O’Neil has prompted a lower organization

O’Neill has long -term relations with the Republican Party’s liberation wing, including Thil, one of the most prominent supporters of Trump from Silicon Valley. Like Thiel, O’Neill expressed contempt for many parts of the federal bureaucracy, saying that it hinders progress in medicine, technology and other areas.

During the first period of Trump, O’Neill was examined as a potential option to lead the FDA, although his previous statements about the agency have sparked warnings between the executives of pharmaceutical and medical technology.

In particular, O’Neill suggested getting rid of the 60 -year -old FDA state to ensure safe and effective drugs in the treatment of the disease. In the 2014 speech, O’Neill suggested that the drug event be created after reaching the market.

Trump finally nominated Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former FDA official (FDA) and supporter of the agency’s organizational approach, as a commissioner.

Refusing to separate with Kennedy on vaccines

After his nomination of the HHS center, O’Neill expressed his support for the traditional system of the federal government to oversee vaccine – including the role of the Disease Control Center – with the refusal to criticize Kennedy’s views on this topic.

“I support the recommendations of the Center for Disease Control of Clashs,” O’Neill told senator Louisiana Republican Bill Cassidy in a confirmation session in June. “I think this is a central role played by the Center for Disease Control. It is a lawmaker.”

In follow -up questions, Democrat Ron Wadeen pressed O’Neill on statements by Kennedy to reduce the safety and effectiveness of vaccines to prevent measles and other diseases.

O’Neill replied, “Minister Kennedy did not make it difficult and do not inhibit people from taking vaccines.”

Fallen vaccine decisions next risk

Within weeks, O’Neil can be asked to sign new recommendations from the Committee for the Control Center for diseases that Kennedy has brought back with the suspicion of vaccines. The group is scheduled to meet next month to review the measles vaccinations, hepatitis and other cases that have been established long ago on the government’s children’s schedule.

Traditionally, the director of the Diseases Control Center signs recommendations from the committee. But Monarerez has yet been expelled, among other things, she refused to sign automatically on the recommendations of the committee, according to Dr. Richard Besser, the former director of the representation at the Center for Disease Control that she spoke with.

As an official official, Federal law, O’Neill, is limited to no more than 210 days headed by the agency before being aside or formally nominated to the position.

Dr. Ann Shuchhat, who was twice as a director of the behavior of the Disease Control Center, says that there are no limits in the first place of the agency of the agency’s chiefs, after the restrictions of time.

Shuchhat said: “I was told,” You are the director. Do what you have to do. “

Fencing health roles

Shuchhat said that both O’Neill’s roles in HHS and CDC are demanding full -time full -time, which will be very difficult for one person to do at one time.

“But if the goal is that the director of the Acting Disease Control Center be fulfilled by a pre -determined decision on vaccines, then this is a different story,” Shuchhat said.

She added that O’Neill was there this week’s exit for the four managers of the Center for the Center for Control of Diseases, leaving the agency with a few leaders who have a background in the field of medicine, science or the management of the public health crisis.

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AP Medical Mike Stobbe has contributed to this story from New York

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