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Grandparents for Vaccines is a nationwide nonprofit that aims to educate the current generation of parents about vaccine-preventable diseases. Launched in September, the group has produced videos of grandparents describing what it was like to endure or witness their friends, classmates and relatives battle illnesses such as polio, measles and pertussis before vaccines for them existed. Teri Mills is a founding member of Grandparents for Vaccines and a retired public health nurse who was named "Oregon Nurse of the Year" in 2019 by the Oregon Nurse Foundation. She is also a member of Defend Public Health.

Measles has resurged in the U.S., and DPH Coordinating Committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs zero in HHS Secretary Kennedy's role: "Over the past two decades, Kennedy has heavily influenced the anti-vaccine movement. Now as HHS Secretary, his position of power is furthering his influence. By encouraging doubt in science and medicine, many parents become confused and afraid to vaccinate their children, while others develop passionate distrust and join his movement."

Earlier this year, President Trump issued an executive order titled "Restoring Gold Standard Science." The reality, writes DPH member Nancy Krieger, "is that federal agencies under this current administration are brandishing this 'gold standard science' as a cudgel, to make data, people, and problems disappear. In doing so, they are following the age-old autocratic tactic of 'no data, no problem.'”

This analysis of the war on public health debunks claims of public health "overreach" when COVID-19 struck and quotes DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves: “Public health is the least funded, least well-resourced part of any state or local government. The idea that there are these martinets with power and resources telling people what to do is just absolutely insane.”

DPH Coordinating Committee Member Dr. Miranda Yaver writes about the many, many limitations of Trump's musings on healthcare.

In this adaptation of a speech he gave at a recent meeting of the American Public Health Association, DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves calls on the public health field to reclaim its former identity as a social and political movement. "We became scientists and clinicians first, and made our solutions technocratic," he writes, but the events of recent years show that public health must organize to grapple with the larger social and economic issues that shape how -- and even whether -- we live and stay healthy.

The current administration drastically cut U.S. foreign aid, but DPH member Timothy Holtz and colleagues write, "U.S. global health assistance is an urgent humanitarian priority, particularly amid rapidly growing displacement and climate-induced crises. Continued deprioritization will ultimately result in lives lost. Critical to averting deaths and promoting global health security, U.S. technical capacity in global health should be reinvigorated through synergies with the private sector, international actors, and local institutions."