NEW YORK — The director of the nation’s top public health agency is out after less than one month in the job, and several top agency leaders have resigned.

Officials did not explain why Susan Monarez was no longer with the agency, but her lawyers said she was targeted for standing up for science.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced her departure in a brief social media post Wednesday that said: “Susan Monarez is no longer director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. We thank her for her dedicated service to the American people.”

On Wednesday evening, her lawyers Mark Zaid and Abbe David Lowell issued a statement that said she had neither resigned nor been told she was fired.

“When CDC Director Susan Monarez refused to rubber-stamp unscientific, r

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