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Gay doctor who resigned from CDC over "radical non-transparency" will lead historic health org

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Greg Owen (30 Dec 2025)

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis – who was among several employees who publicly resigned from a leadership position at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in August – is returning to the local health sector. He has been appointed Chief Medical Officer for the historic NYC health organization, Callen-Lorde Community Health Center.

"My career has taken me from local to federal," the out physician told health and science publication STAT10 after his appointment. "This is when it's time to go back to local."

Daskalakis reached a breaking point at the CDC over the summer as the full extent of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-science agenda was coming into view.

Citing "radical non-transparency," "unskilled manipulation of data," and "people of dubious intent and more dubious scientific rigor," Daskalakis, then the director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases at the agency, resigned in August, following Kennedy's firing of CDC director Susan Monarez.

"After much contemplation and reflection on recent developments and perspectives brought to light by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., I find that the views he and his staff have shared challenge my ability to continue in my current role at the agency and in the service of the health of the American people," Daskalakis wrote in a searing condemnation of the current administration's stewardship of the nation's public health agencies.

"Enough is enough," he said.