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Franco Ordoñez is a White House Correspondent for NPR's Washington Desk. Before he came to NPR in 2019, Ordoñez covered the White House for McClatchy. He has also written about diplomatic affairs, foreign policy and immigration, and has been a correspondent in Cuba, Colombia, Mexico and Haiti.

They will split the duties of their predecessor, who resigned under a cloud.

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Also: President Joe Biden temporarily appointed replacements to lead the Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The White House has confirmed two temporary replacements for the outgoing presidential science adviser Eric Lander, as it seeks to reassure the community that his departure will not derail the administration’s science agenda. Francis Collins, the long-serving National Institutes of Health director who retired last year, will step in as science adviser to the president. He will also co-chair a White House advisory body, the President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology.

The Biden administration is turbocharging its effort to boost inoculations in low- and middle-income countries to prevent new, more-transmissible variants from emerging.

Politico reports that Francis Collins and Alondra Nelson are take over on an interim basis the posts that had been filled by Eric Lander.

President Joe Biden appointed Alondra Nelson, a social scientist who has studied social inequality, to be the acting director of the White House science office.

They will split the duties of their predecessor, who resigned under a cloud.

Researchers working in the United States say the China Initiative has harmed both their fellow scientists and science itself — as a global cooperative endeavor. But as U.S.-China tensions remain high, the initiative remains in place.