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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.

DPH member Miranda Yaver explores the potentially devastating impact of Medicaid cuts on behavioral health services in Republican leaning states.

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.

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vaccine recommendations, arguing HHS's justification for the change "misrepresents and falsely cites the evidence, uses outdated data, and risks eroding public trust and the foundation of evidence-based public health."

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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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."

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."