WASHINGTON (AP) — Jim O’Neill, a former investor, critic of health regulations and Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s deputy, is taking control of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention following a tumultuous week in which the agency’s director was forced out.

O’Neill was picked by President Donald Trump to be the CDC’s interim director, supplanting Susan Monarez, a longtime government scientist.

Monarez had been the CDC director for less than a month. Her lawyers said she refused “to rubber-stamp unscientific, reckless directives and fire dedicated health experts.”

O'Neill takes over an agency that has been rocked by firings, resignations and efforts by Kennedy to reshape the nation's vaccine policies to match his long-standing suspicions about the safety and effectivenes

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