Jeanne Marrazzo, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was removed from her post after she filed a whistleblower complaint against senior leaders at the Department of Health and Human Services, suggesting that she was fired out of retaliation.
In a prepared statement on Thursday, Marrazzo’s legal counsel, Debra Katz, said “there is no doubt [Marrazzo] was removed from her position as Director of NIAID in retaliation for her protected whistleblower activity.” After months of being on administrative leave, the former NIAID director was formally terminated Thursday, according to various media reports.
“My termination, unfortunately, shows that the leaders of HHS and the National Institutes of Health do not share my commitment to scientific integrity and public health,” Marrazzo said in the same prepared statement.
Marrazzo came to lead the NIAID in August 2023, overseeing the agency’s work to understand, prevent and treat infectious and allergic diseases. Under the leadership of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., however, she on many occasions objected to the “censorship of scientific research” and senior leadership’s actions to subordinate “scientific integrity to unscientific and unsupported policy preferences,” according to...
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