NEWSROOM Type - Any -NewsOpinionPress Release Topic - Any -ClimateDisability JusticeHealth Care & InsuranceInfectious DiseaseInstitutional DefenseInternationalSexual & Reproductive HealthSocial HealthWhopper of the Week Opinion Mar 12, 2025 Totalitarian Science in the White House DPH member Paul Josephson compares the Trump administration’s approach to science with Joseph Stalin’s deadly misadventure with Lysenkoism. News Mar 10, 2025 ‘Wasting time’: CDC to study disproven vaccine-autism link Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm over plans by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study on whether there's a causal link between vaccines and the development of autism. News Mar 10, 2025 Vaccine Skeptic Dave Weldon Is Up To Lead CDC As Measles And Flu Rage The U.S. is facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. The measles outbreak started quietly in Texas in late January. Press Release Mar 10, 2025 Senators Must Reject Notorious Antivaxxer Dave Weldon for CDC Director WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the first deadly measles outbreak in a decade raging in the Southwest, tuberculosis outbreaks in several states, and bird flu spreading rapidly across the country, scientists, healthcare workers, and advocates from Defend Public Health urge the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of notorious antivaxxer David Weldon, whose nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under consideration this Thursday morning by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. Opinion Mar 07, 2025 Measles is spreading in Texas – we are safe here, but Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incompetence is staggering Retired physician and DPH member Jeoffry B. Gordon on how RFK Jr.’s vaccine misinformation can help spread measles. Opinion Mar 07, 2025 When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide DPH coordinating committee member Julie Scofield and two colleagues critique the ethical implications of recent executive orders, including those involving gender-affirming care for trans youth and diversity, equity and inclusion. Opinion Mar 04, 2025 The danger to US health science research does not stop at RFK Jr. DPH coordinating committee member James Alwine looks at two other sketchy Trump administration health agency nominees, Jay Bhattacharya and Dave Weldon (the latter since withdrawn). Opinion Mar 03, 2025 The Critical Need for Science Funding DPH member Aimee Bernard lay out the benefits of federal funding of scientific and medical research, all of which are being endangered by Trump administration cuts. Opinion Mar 02, 2025 The US is losing its next generation of health scientists DPH coordinating committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs on the devastating impact of cuts to NIH research funding. Opinion Feb 15, 2025 Fluoride is safe and effective for dental health DPH member Susan T. Cookson, MD, MPH, FACP, a Rabun County Board of Health Physician, was ahead of the curve in writing a piece about the importance of fluoride for dental health. It is on page 49 of the publication. Opinion Feb 13, 2025 When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead Yale epidemiologist and DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves on how the sort of science denial embraced by RFK Jr. has left a trail of death. Press Release Feb 13, 2025 Statement from Defend Public Health on Senate Confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary WASHINGTON, D.C. – The coordinating committee of Defend Public Health, an all-volunteer network of physicians and other healthcare workers, scientists and public health advocates, issued the following statement in response to today’s U.S. Senate vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services: Pagination Previous page Previous … Page 15 Current page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Next page Next
Opinion Mar 12, 2025 Totalitarian Science in the White House DPH member Paul Josephson compares the Trump administration’s approach to science with Joseph Stalin’s deadly misadventure with Lysenkoism.
News Mar 10, 2025 ‘Wasting time’: CDC to study disproven vaccine-autism link Scientists and public health experts are sounding the alarm over plans by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to fund a study on whether there's a causal link between vaccines and the development of autism.
News Mar 10, 2025 Vaccine Skeptic Dave Weldon Is Up To Lead CDC As Measles And Flu Rage The U.S. is facing multiple infectious disease outbreaks. The measles outbreak started quietly in Texas in late January.
Press Release Mar 10, 2025 Senators Must Reject Notorious Antivaxxer Dave Weldon for CDC Director WASHINGTON, D.C. – With the first deadly measles outbreak in a decade raging in the Southwest, tuberculosis outbreaks in several states, and bird flu spreading rapidly across the country, scientists, healthcare workers, and advocates from Defend Public Health urge the U.S. Senate to reject the nomination of notorious antivaxxer David Weldon, whose nomination to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is under consideration this Thursday morning by the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
Opinion Mar 07, 2025 Measles is spreading in Texas – we are safe here, but Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s incompetence is staggering Retired physician and DPH member Jeoffry B. Gordon on how RFK Jr.’s vaccine misinformation can help spread measles.
Opinion Mar 07, 2025 When Executive Directives And Public Health Ethics Collide DPH coordinating committee member Julie Scofield and two colleagues critique the ethical implications of recent executive orders, including those involving gender-affirming care for trans youth and diversity, equity and inclusion.
Opinion Mar 04, 2025 The danger to US health science research does not stop at RFK Jr. DPH coordinating committee member James Alwine looks at two other sketchy Trump administration health agency nominees, Jay Bhattacharya and Dave Weldon (the latter since withdrawn).
Opinion Mar 03, 2025 The Critical Need for Science Funding DPH member Aimee Bernard lay out the benefits of federal funding of scientific and medical research, all of which are being endangered by Trump administration cuts.
Opinion Mar 02, 2025 The US is losing its next generation of health scientists DPH coordinating committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs on the devastating impact of cuts to NIH research funding.
Opinion Feb 15, 2025 Fluoride is safe and effective for dental health DPH member Susan T. Cookson, MD, MPH, FACP, a Rabun County Board of Health Physician, was ahead of the curve in writing a piece about the importance of fluoride for dental health. It is on page 49 of the publication.
Opinion Feb 13, 2025 When ‘Just Asking Questions’ About Science Turns Into 300,000 Dead Yale epidemiologist and DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves on how the sort of science denial embraced by RFK Jr. has left a trail of death.
Press Release Feb 13, 2025 Statement from Defend Public Health on Senate Confirmation of RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary WASHINGTON, D.C. – The coordinating committee of Defend Public Health, an all-volunteer network of physicians and other healthcare workers, scientists and public health advocates, issued the following statement in response to today’s U.S. Senate vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services:
