The Office on Smoking and Health, the Environmental Health Laboratory, CDC Communications offices — the gutting of these ...

Griffis led CDC communications from June 2022 to March 2025. The DOGE cuts to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on Tuesday will make America less safe. Unless something is done soon ...

CDC deputy director of public affairs Nina Witkofsky is serving as acting director of communications following Griffis’ exit.

Getting accurate information to doctors and the public so they can make healthy decisions is critical. CDC workers and public health experts say that mission is now in danger.

Griffis wrote in a Washington Post op-ed that he believes public health policy must always ‘be guided by facts and not ...

It is unclear what will happen to hundreds of pending requests for public information as the health agencies slash staff.