{"id":11686,"date":"2026-03-18T19:53:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=11686"},"modified":"2026-03-18T19:53:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T00:53:41","slug":"fdas-top-infectious-disease-regulator-to-depart-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2026\/03\/18\/fdas-top-infectious-disease-regulator-to-depart-agency\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA\u2019s top infectious disease regulator to depart agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/18\/fda-top-infectious-disease-regulator-depart-agency-adam-sherwat\/\">STAT<\/a> Adam Sherwat\u2019s office has faced scrutiny from top FDA official Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg. The Food and Drug Administration official in charge of reviewing infectious disease products is leaving the agency, according to an email viewed by STAT.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Adam Sherwat, the director of the Office of Infectious Diseases in the FDA\u2019s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, told colleagues on Wednesday that his last day at the agency will be April 4. \u201cI have been extremely fortunate to work with and learn from colleagues who are dedicated to improving public health and who are guided by integrity, impartiality, and intellect,\u201d he wrote.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/03\/18\/fda-top-infectious-disease-regulator-depart-agency-adam-sherwat\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STAT Adam Sherwat\u2019s office has faced scrutiny from top FDA official Tracy Beth H\u00f8eg. The Food and Drug Administration official in charge of reviewing infectious disease products is leaving the agency, according to an email viewed by STAT.&nbsp; Adam Sherwat, the director of the Office of Infectious Diseases in the FDA\u2019s Center for Drug Evaluation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-policy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11686"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11687,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11686\/revisions\/11687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}