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Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken updates readers on the recent move to temporarily block the OMB rule politicizing federal grants by attaching language to the funding bill that keeps the government open till Dec. 11. But, he warns, a lot of work remains if we want to block the rule permanently.

DPH Member Dr. Nancy Krieger breaks down three looming threats to health science from the Federal government including putting science budgets at the hands of Trump appointees at OMB, limiting science funding to "profit-making" projects, and barriers to study the health impacts of public policy.

Lawyers who worked on our amicus briefs in the American Academy of Pediatrics lawsuit that has blocked many of HHS Sec. Kennedy's worst vaccine policy changes explain the fight to protect public health in the courts and their collaboration with DPH. Our brief was the only one cited in the district court judge's key ruling allowing the suit to proceed. This appeared in the Harvard Law School publication focusing on health, biotech and bioethics.

This major German online news outlet takes a detalied look (in German) at the attacks on former NIAID Director Anthony Fauci and what they mean for U.S. science, particularly biomedical research, with extensive comments from Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves.

Epidemiologist and DPH member Tara C. Smith looks at how RFK Jr. has damaged our ability to prevent and contain measles outbreaks. She concludes that the U.S. is headed for more cases, more suffering, more deaths and enormous financial costs due to anti-vaccine activism.

Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves writes about the new mRNA-based vaccine for melanoma, which has great promise. But, he notes, the company behind it has a history of putting profits ahead of people -- and the whole field is endangered by HHS Secretary Kennedy's dishonest attacks on mRNA technology, including demonization of COVID vaccines.

DPH member Jeoffry B. Gordon lays out the tale of "incompetent governing," including large and chaotic cuts to federal food safety monitoring, that made the recent Cyclospora outbreak far worse than it should have been.

Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs is quoted in this article about the NIH proposing to hide grant scores from applicants, their institutions, and NIH program officers. She calls the proposal "a setup for obscuring the impact of the political review of grants."