Some high-level officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been offered the opportunity to transfer to remote field offices within the Indian Health Service, including locations in Alaska, according to internal emails obtained by several reporters. If they don’t accept reassignment, they may need to be looking for work elsewhere.
The move comes as the Department of Government Efficiency, run by Elon Musk, is reducing personnel across many federal agencies.
In addition to Alaska, there are vacancies in the health services that need to be filled across Indian Country in Western and Great Plain states, including New Mexico, Minnesota, Montana, the Navajo Reservation, and Oklahoma.
“The department is proposing to reassign you as part of a broader effort to strengthen the department,” read an email sent to affected CDC personnel. “One critical area of need is in American Indian and Alaska Native communities. This underserved community deserves the highest quality of service, and HHS needs individuals like you to deliver that service.”
Among those receiving the offers are the chief tobacco regulator at the Food and Drug Administration; a manager at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases; a microbiology and infectious disease researcher at NIAID; a director at the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; and a director at the CDC’s Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics.
Employees were given until Wednesday at 5 pm to indicate if they will accept a transfer.
Like Alaska needs more Liberal bureaucrats. I doubt many will want to live in the rural areas.
Ha,ha,ha ! LMAO!
I know of some very remote villages deep in the interior as well as coastal villages that desperately need some high level support from the most experienced and highest pay scale government employees.
They could provide some valuable needed expertise and gain some hands on experience during mosquito season at harvest time.
They could learn what its like to gather their winter food supply from the tundra lakes and rivers.
The great diaspora all over again. Thanks. Hell no! Forgeddaboudit!!! The last frontier doesn’t need or want thum either! Git!!!
We don’t need no wimps!
Thanks Elon for trying to send us more tree huggers
I imagine this has something to do with the unlimited funding that is available to Native healthcare. In Fairbanks the hospital and Tanana Clinic, despite frequent salary increases, can’t compete with wages and working conditions offered by Chief Andrew Isaac Health Clinic. The entire community has lost excellent providers to Native Health.
One, we don’t need any more DC fans up here.
Two, we should strive to have FEWER Federal employees living here as members of the electorate.
Three, thank goodness that few, if any, of these CDC employees have (if they ever had) any interest in seeing patients or practicing medicine.
Most of these jobs are held by out of state tree huggers currently This is a great idea and avoids the lawsuits if these people were just fired. Too summarize, its a win/win
Don’t send those up here. We have enough L48 trash that needs flushed.