A group that includes current and former public health workers from the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is set to gather in Decatur on Sunday for a volunteer event designed to help people experiencing food insecurity.

WASHINGTON, DC -Jay Bhattacharya has been named as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the world’s premier public health agency. Bhattacharya, who now heads the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will simultaneously hold the CDC position.

The director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, will also take on the temporary role of acting director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, an administration official told CNN Wednesday.

A 2023 law championed by Republicans requires the CDC have a director confirmed by the Senate. For months, though, it’s had only acting directors—and the White House won’t say when that will change.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hasn't had a Senate confirmed director since last summer, and that official was in the job for less than a month.

Jay Bhattacharya, a critic of the CDC’s Covid-19 response, will now lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), makes recommendations for who should get which vaccines.