# Heidi Overton

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## Timeline

- **2026-08-19**: Trump announces Heidi Overton as FDA Commissioner nominee — President Trump names the White House Domestic Policy Council deputy director to lead the FDA, pending Senate confirmation.
- **2026-05**: Marty Makary resigns as FDA Commissioner — The previous FDA head leaves behind unfinished projects on ultraprocessed foods, antidepressants, and COVID-19 shots.

## Recent coverage (2 stories)

### Overton's FDA Pick: 3 Regulatory Fault Lines for Health Tech
2026-08-20 00:44:20 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

For health IT, medical device and telehealth leaders, Overton's nomination signals a period of regulatory uncertainty. Her backing of MAHA and most favored nation drug pricing could reshape digital health evidence standards, diagnostics oversight and vaccine-adjacent software, even as deregulatory forces promise faster approvals. Confirmation will test how the FDA balances innovation with public health safeguards.
Full story: https://gethealthbrief.com/story/overton-fda-health-tech-regulatory-fault-lines

### Trump's 3rd FDA Pick Steps In Amid Cyclospora Food-Safety Outbreak
2026-08-19 18:17:55 · Sentiment: Neutral · Impact: 7/10 · Sources: 2

A White House health-policy aide with a hand in the childhood vaccine-schedule rewrite is tapped to run the FDA during a multistate cyclospora outbreak. Health systems and public-health officials now weigh the operational impact of leadership churn and a nominee whose recommendations physicians say lack scientific support.
Full story: https://gethealthbrief.com/story/heidi-overton-fda-cyclospora-food-safety-health

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