NEWSROOM Type - Any -NewsOpinionPress Release Topic - Any -ClimateDisability JusticeHealth Care & InsuranceInfectious DiseaseInstitutional DefenseInternationalSexual & Reproductive HealthSocial Health Opinion Jun 14, 2025 Will States' Rights Go the Way of Medicaid Funding? DPH member Miranda Yaver, a professor of health policy and management, calls out the hypocrisy of the Medicaid cuts in the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill," as the former party of states' rights tries to force states to make draconian cuts that will do profound harm. Opinion Jun 13, 2025 280 Characters of Chaos: How RFK Jr. Is Rewriting Vaccine Policy on X DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues dissect HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest volley of vaccine misinformation, delivered via X, in which he tried to justify his firing of CDC vaccine advisors. Opinion Jun 12, 2025 Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states DPH member Miranda Yaver explores the potentially devastating impact of Medicaid cuts on behavioral health services in Republican leaning states. News Jun 12, 2025 NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves reports on NIH staffers letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya calling out the damage his leadership and the Trump administration have done to health research. Opinion Jun 10, 2025 Scientific Integrity Under Fire: How Evidence Was Misrepresented in HHS's COVID Vaccine Policy Reversal DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues take a hard look at the recent change in COVID vaccine recommendations, arguing HHS's justification for the change "misrepresents and falsely cites the evidence, uses outdated data, and risks eroding public trust and the foundation of evidence-based public health." Opinion Jun 05, 2025 RFK Jr. Is Dangerously Wrong on Fluoride In this column, syndicated nationally by The Progressive and appearing in papers nationwide, from Newsday in New York to the Kansas City Star, DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills lay out HHS Secretary Kennedy's history of promoting "dangerous misinformation about fluoride" and the harm he will cause if he succeeds in banning it from drinking water. Opinion Jun 05, 2025 The media’s dangerous ‘sanewashing’ of RFK Jr. DPH Communications Committee co-chair Bruce Mirken on how too much of the mass media coverage of RFK Jr. "leaves Americans without the information they need to understand how genuinely bonkers the direction of current U.S. public health policy has become under Kennedy." Opinion Jun 05, 2025 Ciscomani betrays his constituents over Medicaid DPH members Elizabeth Jacobs and James Alwine write about Representative Juan Ciscomani's evolving views on Medicaid cuts, leading to his vote to cut them after saying he wouldn't. Opinion Jun 04, 2025 Undermining America's HIV Prevention Capacity: Wrong and Dangerous In the journal "AIDS and Behavior," epidemiologist and DPH member Ronald O. Valdisseri lays out the potentially devastating consequences of RFK Jr.'s "reorganization" of HHS on HIV prevention efforts. Opinion Jun 02, 2025 Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most DPH member Miranda Yaver and co-author Michael Shepherd explain how Republican members of Congress supporting Medicaid cuts are hurting their own voters and endangering hospitals serving rural communities. Opinion Jun 01, 2025 Trump’s agenda proves to reverse course for planet, not taking climate crisis seriously DPH member Teri Mills and Dr. Timothy Holtz explain why the administration's dismantling of climate policy doesn't just affect the environment: "Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health." Opinion May 30, 2025 The Unqualified Hacks Hijacking Our Public Health DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves writes, "Even after what has been a catastrophic several months for public health and biomedicine in the United States, the past few weeks have shown us that things can always get worse." Pagination Previous page Previous … Page 2 Current page 3 Page 4 Page 5 … Next page Next
Opinion Jun 14, 2025 Will States' Rights Go the Way of Medicaid Funding? DPH member Miranda Yaver, a professor of health policy and management, calls out the hypocrisy of the Medicaid cuts in the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill," as the former party of states' rights tries to force states to make draconian cuts that will do profound harm.
Opinion Jun 13, 2025 280 Characters of Chaos: How RFK Jr. Is Rewriting Vaccine Policy on X DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues dissect HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s latest volley of vaccine misinformation, delivered via X, in which he tried to justify his firing of CDC vaccine advisors.
Opinion Jun 12, 2025 Medicaid cuts would devastate mental health, substance use treatment services in red states DPH member Miranda Yaver explores the potentially devastating impact of Medicaid cuts on behavioral health services in Republican leaning states.
News Jun 12, 2025 NIH Staff Have Broken Their Silence DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves reports on NIH staffers letter to Director Jay Bhattacharya calling out the damage his leadership and the Trump administration have done to health research.
Opinion Jun 10, 2025 Scientific Integrity Under Fire: How Evidence Was Misrepresented in HHS's COVID Vaccine Policy Reversal DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues take a hard look at the recent change in COVID vaccine recommendations, arguing HHS's justification for the change "misrepresents and falsely cites the evidence, uses outdated data, and risks eroding public trust and the foundation of evidence-based public health."
Opinion Jun 05, 2025 RFK Jr. Is Dangerously Wrong on Fluoride In this column, syndicated nationally by The Progressive and appearing in papers nationwide, from Newsday in New York to the Kansas City Star, DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills lay out HHS Secretary Kennedy's history of promoting "dangerous misinformation about fluoride" and the harm he will cause if he succeeds in banning it from drinking water.
Opinion Jun 05, 2025 The media’s dangerous ‘sanewashing’ of RFK Jr. DPH Communications Committee co-chair Bruce Mirken on how too much of the mass media coverage of RFK Jr. "leaves Americans without the information they need to understand how genuinely bonkers the direction of current U.S. public health policy has become under Kennedy."
Opinion Jun 05, 2025 Ciscomani betrays his constituents over Medicaid DPH members Elizabeth Jacobs and James Alwine write about Representative Juan Ciscomani's evolving views on Medicaid cuts, leading to his vote to cut them after saying he wouldn't.
Opinion Jun 04, 2025 Undermining America's HIV Prevention Capacity: Wrong and Dangerous In the journal "AIDS and Behavior," epidemiologist and DPH member Ronald O. Valdisseri lays out the potentially devastating consequences of RFK Jr.'s "reorganization" of HHS on HIV prevention efforts.
Opinion Jun 02, 2025 Medicaid cuts will harm rural Republican communities most DPH member Miranda Yaver and co-author Michael Shepherd explain how Republican members of Congress supporting Medicaid cuts are hurting their own voters and endangering hospitals serving rural communities.
Opinion Jun 01, 2025 Trump’s agenda proves to reverse course for planet, not taking climate crisis seriously DPH member Teri Mills and Dr. Timothy Holtz explain why the administration's dismantling of climate policy doesn't just affect the environment: "Climate change doesn’t just harm the earth, it harms our health."
Opinion May 30, 2025 The Unqualified Hacks Hijacking Our Public Health DPH coordinating committee member Gregg Gonsalves writes, "Even after what has been a catastrophic several months for public health and biomedicine in the United States, the past few weeks have shown us that things can always get worse."