Dan Jernigan: key facts
- Kind of voice
- Academic
- Role
- former CDC career scientist and former director of the national center for emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases
- Quoted on
- Rare diseases, Learning disability & autism
- Tracked press citations
- 2
- Most recently quoted
- 4 Oct 2026
- First quoted
- 27 Aug 2026
“The ultimate outcome will be fewer vaccines and more vaccine-preventable illness.”
What Dan Jernigan has said
“We were all asked to be a part of autism studies and to put together [an autism plan]. We helped develop some of that. But then over time, what we saw was [Kennedy] having an increasingly top down approach, essentially 'my way or the highway,' with no regard again for the scientific processes”
former CDC career scientist and former director of the national center for emerging and zoonotic infectious diseases · Learning disability & autism · 27 Aug 2026 · Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autism ↗
Where Dan Jernigan has been quoted
- ‘Never seen anything like this’: alarm at memo from top US vaccine officialtheguardian.com · 4 Oct 2026
- Trump attacks Tylenol as officials unveil highly contentious conclusions on autismtheguardian.com · 27 Aug 2026
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