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Dr. Susan Monarez, the former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will testify to Congress following her abrupt ouster last month amid a clash with U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. over vaccine policy.

The Senate’s health committee announced Tuesday that it will host her at a hearing next week, granting Monarez a high-profile perch to address her firing in front of cameras for the first time. Monarez will be joined by former senior CDC official Debra Houry, who resigned in protest following Monarez’s ouster. Latest Forecast ° F FEELS LIKE No weather data available

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Both have criticized Kennedy since their departures, accusing him of seeking to undercut the nation’s vaccine

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