Fauci’s Successor Put on Leave as RFK Jr. Reshapes Agencies

Jeanne Marrazzo, Anthony Fauci’s successor at the National Institutes of Health, was placed on administrative leave starting on Tuesday and offered a reassignment to a different part of the US Department of Health and Human Services, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Marrazzo was asked to join HHS’s Indian Health Service division, which works to provide health services to American Indian and native Alaskan populations.

Jeanne Marrazzo

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The reassignment comes as HHS is conducting mass layoffs of around 10,000 employees and restructuring the agency. While initial communications about the layoffs focused on addressing redundancy in ...