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Could RFK Jr. do as much damage to a variety of preventive services (such as pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV) as he as begun doing to vaccines? Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves argues that he could, and that the U.S. Supreme Court recently handed him the means with which to do it.

DPH members Teri Mills and Tim Holtz discuss the significant progress made in HIV treatment and prevention and the need to sustain US Federal funding for programs that save lives at home and abroad.

DPH member Dr. Miranda Yaver shares her expertise on the topic of Republican attacks on the Affordable Care Act.

On this radio show and podcast, Coordinating Committee member and epidemiologist Elizabeth Jacobs discusses this year's measles outbreaks and how antivaccine ideology is destroying America's status as having eliminated this highly contagious viral disease.

DPH member Lauren Forrest challenges the notion that research on minority health is "too niche" and discusses its critical importance in creating robust, accurate health science.

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.