WIKIMEDIA COMMONS, DANIEL MAYER
Three anonymous letters detailing alleged problems at a global health division run by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provoked a rebuttal from CDC officials.
Allegations in the letters, excerpts of which were published in The Lancet within the last month and aimed at the CDC's 18-month-old Center for Global Health, range from general low morale amongst staffers at the center to misappropriation of funds and clashing with the US Agency for International Development programs. One of the three letters calls for an "objective evaluation" of the global health division, and the other two propose that a Congressional investigation be initiated.
The Lancet editor, Richard Horton, is defending the journal's publication of the letters, saying they are exhortations from CDC staffers whose concerns ...
