
Jeanne Marrazzo, the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), filed suit in federal court on Tuesday alleging that Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay Bhattacharya, Principal Deputy Director of NIAID Matthew Memoli, and the NIH violated her constitutional rights and illegally terminated her employment after she “blew the whistle on actions that jeopardized public health and violated federal law.”

A former University of Alabama at Birmingham official was among the top federal health leaders across the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) who were removed from their jobs on Tuesday.