High-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been reassigned to remote field offices with the Indian Health Service, three CDC officials and a non-agency source told NOTUS.
The reassignments come as another wave of personnel cuts and reductions in force hit the public health agencies, led by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Elon Musk’s DOGE.
“The department is proposing to reassign you as part of a broader effort to strengthen the department,” read an email received by one of the CDC officials, who read it aloud to NOTUS. “One critical area of need is in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This underserved community deserves the highest quality of service, and HHS needs individuals like you to deliver that service.”