In the first months of the second Trump administration, a key leader at the National Institutes of Health repeatedly questioned the role of vaccines in protecting health, according to whistleblower complaints filed by two top infectious-disease scientists who were placed on leave earlier this year.
The complaints from Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Kathleen Neuzil, former director of the Fogarty International Center, allege they were retaliated against for their dissenting views on a number of issues — including their objection to the administration’s “hostility towards vaccines,” according to Marrazzo’s complaint.
The documents show that skepticism about vaccines, which has become a defining cornerstone of the Trump administration’s health agenda, was also being discussed at the highest level of its biomedical science agency. The documents also provide a window into the ongoing upheaval , in which billions of dollars of grants have been and has been inserted into the scientific process.
The complaint is wide-ranging. It recounts several episodes in which Marrazzo and Neuzil advocated for the importance of using vaccines to protect children’s health and found themselves in conflict with Matthew Memoli, who Trump appointed as acting NIH director in January and now is number two in command at the agency. It also alleges that Memoli benefited from a $500 million project awarded to advance an universal...
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