14. Department of Health and Human Services · Notable
Decommission the CDC and NIH Foundations
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Printed page 462 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“The CDC and NIH Foundations, whose boards are populated with pharmaceutical company executives, need to be decommissioned.”
What has happened
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Both foundations are still operating. The CDC Foundation is chartered under 42 U.S.C. 280e-11 and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health under 42 U.S.C. 290b; decommissioning either needs an Act of Congress. No 119th-Congress bill names either foundation, no Federal Register document in the window mentions them, and no presidential action addresses them.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Full-text Federal Register search for “CDC Foundation” returns 0 documents in the window; the NIH Guide’s single hit for “Foundation for the National Institutes of Health” is pre-2025.
- The companion narrower ask about pharmaceutical money flowing through the CDC Foundation is #1212.
- One search, run 2026-08-28, covered the p. 462 asks on NIH leadership and the Foundations: this one, #1249 and #1253.
- Action
- abolish
- Object
- CDC Foundation and NIH Foundation
- ID
- 1251