The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has dismissed Gray Delany, the official responsible for translating the administration’s Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) agenda into agency policy, according to people familiar with the decision. Delany’s firing came shortly after BARDA revoked 22 federal contracts supporting messenger-RNA research and development. The move is part of Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s broader overhaul of the government’s investment in mRNA technologies, announced earlier this week. Delany, regarded as an ally of the secretary and a liaison to MAHA advocates, had questioned aspects of the communications strategy surrounding the contract cancellations, the people said. His removal underscores internal tensions as HHS recalibrates its approach to post-pandemic vaccine and therapeutic funding.