Two former top officials with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have filed whistleblower complaints, claiming they were removed from leadership positions over their objections to agency leadership's hostility toward vaccines, politicization of scientific research, and suspension of funding for clinical trials and foreign research.
The complaints, first reported by the New York Times, were filed by Jeanne Marrazzo, MD, MPH, former director of NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Kathleen Neuzil, MD, MPH, former director of NIH's Fogarty International Center. Marrazzo and Neuzil were both removed from their positions and placed on involuntarily administrative leave in the spring.
The complaints detail a series of meetings between Marrazzo, Neuzil, and Matthew Memoli, MD, who was named acting NIH director in January and is now principal deputy director of the agency under Jay Bhattacharya, MD, PhD, in which Memoli dismissed the importance of flu vaccines amid a record year for pediatric flu deaths and stated a belief that vaccines aren't necessary if children are healthy. Both Marrazzo and Neuzil voiced their objections to those positions.
"Dr. Memoli refused to make eye contact with either Drs. Marrazzo or Neuzil and dismissed their contributions," Marrazo's complaint states. "He repeated that there is nothing more important than making sure children are healthy to begin with and made clear that...
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