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DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves surveys the grave impacts Trump administration policy have had on scientific research, health infrastructure, and disease control.

Coordinating committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs discuss the cruelty behind the "Big Beautiful Bill" and the harm it will bring to vulnerable populations.

DPH Coordinating Committee member Miranda Yaver calls Medicaid work requirements "better characterized not as a work requirement, but rather as a paperwork requirement. ... Some have characterized Medicaid paperwork requirements as a solution in search of a problem, because contrary to some characterizations of people playing video games in basements, most people on Medicaid are working or would be exempt."

In this analysis for The Lancet Regional Health - Americas, DPH Coordinating Committee member Miranda Yaver and colleagues examine the start of the second Trump administration, writing, "The administration, in its very energetic first hundred days, has already undermined resources, financing, and in particular governance in areas as diverse as oversight of long-term care, scientific research, and vaccination policy."

Our nation demands leadership rooted in science, not ideology. The secretary must be replaced with someone who respects evidence, protects public trust and understands what it truly means to lead in healthcare.
Our health depends on it. Our lives depend on it.

Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills are leaders in Nurses for America and members of Defend Public Health.

In the second of his two-part conversation with Public Health Insights, DPH coordinating committee member Dr. James Alwine discusses how researchers are mobilizing against massive funding that threaten the future of advancements in science and medicine.

DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves and colleagues discuss how Defend Public Health and other new and existing organizations have staged an unprecedented fight against the Trump administration's "full-fledged assault on science and public health," arguing for "a united front that includes those working across the range of issues under assault, including climate change, scientific research, health equity, and academic freedom."

DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs tells The Hill, “Lynn Redwood was permitted to give a presentation that was just simply deceptive about thimerosal and vaccines. And that type of behavior is really not something that a serious scientific body should be considering.” She further calls the June ACIP meeting "circus-like."

Is RFK Jr's new ACIP really taking a "question everything" attitude, or is it just questioning the safety of proven vaccines? DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs tells the Wall Street Journal, “Some members of ACIP seem to have an agenda to undermine the safety and efficacy of vaccines and other disease preventatives in the minds of the public.”

Federal vaccine advisers installed by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. voted Thursday to stop recommending influenza vaccines containing thimerosal -- and DPH member and infectious disease epidemiologist Jessica Malaty Rivera debunked HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr's "evidence" about the preservative: "There is zero evidence of his claims in any of those links.”

"Although the committee made some correct decisions today, health care providers and insurers should be wary of the decisions from this committee, so long as it's stacked with RFK Jr.'s puppets," Elizabeth Jacobs, professor emerita of epidemiology at the University of Arizona and a member of advocacy group Defend Public Health, said in a statement. "Medical societies are gearing up to provide up-to-date vaccination guidance, and that's where healthcare providers and patients should look."