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Writer Elizabeth Yuko details all the ways HHS Secretary Kennedy could make it impossible to get a COVID vaccine, quoting DPH Coordinating Committee member James Alwine about the dire consequences: "We’re really in a bad place in this country as far as being able to defend ourselves against the virus. We’re going to see lots of people getting sick."

In this nationally syndicated column, DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills discuss recent cuts to vaccine research and the dismembering of a key CDC advisory panel on immunization, urging grandparents to take the lead in defending their grandchildren by standing up for vaccination.

In this MSNBC Maddowblog article about HHS Secretary Kennedy's upending of the CDC, DPH member Dr. Kathleen Bachynski, a professor of public health at Muhlenberg College, went after Kennedy's bizarre comments about being able to diagnose children with "mitochondrial dysfunction" while walking through airports. She describes RFK Jr.'s statement as “absolute gibberish,” calling the HHS secretary a “dangerous buffoon.”

Columnist Greg Sargent looks at the Trump/RFK assault on the CDC and its political implications. DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves tells him that state and local governments must step up: “It’s crucial for the American people to know that in many places at the local and state level, public health is alive and well.”

DPH Coordinating Member Bruce Mirken talks about the real challenges to good nutrition in America like food deserts and food insecurity that RFK Jr. and the Trump administration fail to address.

Forbes unpacks the misleading messaging from RFK Jr. on COVID vaccine access and how changes within federal health agencies will limit Americans' access, quoting DPH Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth Jacobs and Gregg Gonsalves.

In the summer issue of HIV Specialist, DPH member Gary F. Spinner traces the history of HIV specialist medical providers as advocates and urges providers to embrace advocacy at a moment when many aspects of public health are under attack. He lays out specific ways healthcare providers can get involved.

In anticipation of a second report from the MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) Commission, Defend Public Health (DPH), a new group of public health experts, released a report they claim would provide a more evidence-based framework for making and keeping people healthy.

As the U.S. awaits the release of the second report from the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) Commission, another group has come out with a "counter report" featuring its own ideas for improving the health of Americans, including ousting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

A grassroots public health organization on Wednesday took a preemptive hatchet to Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s upcoming "Make America Health Again" report, whose release was delayed this week.

Judy Stone of Forbes writes, "The IHAT report, prepared by members of DPH’s Coordinating Committee, covers an array of science-based strategies designed to counter many of the distortions from Kennedy Jr. They cover a wide range of topics including nutrition and physical activity, from a broader, public health and science perspective."