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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."

DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues examine RFK Jr's decision to reduce recommendations for COVID-19 vaccines, done via a social media post that "overrode decades of rigorous vaccine decision-making processes and likely dismantled vaccine access for millions."

An in-depth look at Casey Means, Trump's highly problematic surgeon general nominee, featuring comments from epidemiologist and DPH member Jessica Malaty Rivera.

DPH member Dr. Paul Josephson writes a barnburner of an article about the history of eugenics and how this type of thought is currently impacting United States public health policy.