President-elect Donald Trump announced nominations for surgeon general, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration among others late Friday and on Saturday.

Trump, 78, nominated Dr. Marty Makary – a professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine – to serve as FDA commissioner; former Congressman Dr. Dave Weldon to head the CDC; and Dr. Janette Nesheiwat – a Fox News medical contributor – to serve as surgeon general.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday nominated former Republican Rep. Dave Weldon, MD, of Florida, to lead the CDC and Fox News contributor Janette Nesheiwat, MD, to be the nation's next surgeon general.

In a flurry of picks on Friday evening, Trump named three choices for top health jobs. Together they would help the incoming president shift the priorities of agencies that are key to public health.

President-elect Donald Trump nominated surgeon and author Marty Makary to lead the Food and Drug Administration, picking a physician who openly criticized the agency during the pandemic to run the nation’s top drug regulator.

President-elect Donald Trump on Friday named three doctors to help steer health policy for the agenda that became a fundamental part of his campaign, to make the country healthy again. Dr. Marty Makary,

Amid a slew of nominations Friday night, President-elect Donald Trump rounded out the top health-related positions in his administration.