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President-elect Donald Trump has nominated Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary to head the FDA.
Macari He is currently a surgical oncologist at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore and was previously an advisor to the Paragon Health Institute, a conservative think tank.
In a post about his latest book on his website, the surgeon mocked “experts” who “demonize natural fats in foods, driving Americans toward processed carbohydrates as obesity rates soar.”
Macari They also criticized the agency’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, particularly its vaccination mandate for children and adolescents. Nonetheless, he described himself as a “vaccine supporter” in 2021 in an editorial published by U.S. News.
If confirmed As FDA Commissioner, Makary will inherit several projects for the agency.
Outgoing Director Robert Califf began a major overhaul of the FDA’s food division this year. This included transferring the functions of the agency’s regulatory affairs and food safety offices into one program and its involvement in food inspections and investigations.
Some analysts in the public health sector were not surprised to learn that: Macari’s select. Chris Meekins, an HHS official during Trump’s first term, told POLITICO that the candidate “could cause greater upheaval” in the FDA’s handling of food than its handling of drugs.
In a statement posted to Truth Social on Friday, Trump said the agency would “evaluate the harmful chemicals poisoning our nation’s food supply and the drugs and biologics given to our nation’s young people so that we can finally address the chronic disease epidemic.” He told McCurry he needed to “be able to deal with it.”
Makary replaced his nominee, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., to lead the Department of Health and Human Services. I will work under you. Kennedy promised to strengthen regulation of food companies and crack down on additives such as corn syrup.
“The FDA has lost the trust of the American people and has lost its primary purpose as regulator,” Trump wrote. “The institution needs Dr. Marty Makary, a highly respected Johns Hopkins surgical oncologist and health policy expert, to course correct and refocus the institution.”
