Indian-origin Vinay Prasad becomes US ‘Top Vaccine Officer. Who is he? Why is he controversial?
Controversial oncologist-hematologist Vinay Prasad will be the top vaccine regulator of FDA. In addition to his extensive research and contribution in the field of oncology, he is known for his scary comments against FDA and US health policies. FDA Commissioner Martin Makeri announced the appointment of Prasad as the new director of the Center for Biological Evolution and Research, which oversees the review of vaccines, blood products and some genetic drugs.Makeri wrote in a post on the social media site X, “Dr. Prasad has carried forward a significant step in CBER, freedom and scientific hardness like transparency.”In recent years, Prasad has become a regular on the podcast associated with Health Secretary Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” movement.
Criticism of prasad of American health policies
During the epidemic, Dr. Prasad found a mistake with social disturbances and expressed doubts on vaccines for children. He criticized Donald Trump during an epidemic to prevent the spread of the virus and refuse to use the facemask at the White House. He independently expresses his opinion in the X, his subscriber is called Sensible Medicine and Podcast the Planery Session. He is the author of the books “Malignant: How bad policy and bad evidence harms people with cancer” and “Ending Medical Reversal: Improving Results, Saving Lives.”
Who is Vinay Prasad? Their early life
Born in immigrant parents in America, Dr. Prasad’s early life was in Ohio and Chicago. He went to Michigan State University, where he took courses in health care ethics and physiology. He completed his medical degree at the University of Chicago in 2009 and completed a habitat in internal medicine at Northwestern University in 2012. From 2015 to 2020, Prasad was an assistant and then Associate Professor at Oregon Health and Science University.He currently works at San Francisco General Hospital. Prasad is currently a complete professor of Hematology-Ouncology in the UCSF.
