NEWSROOM Search Type - Any -NewsOpinionPress Release Topics - Any -ClimateDisability JusticeHealth Care & InsuranceInfectious DiseaseInstitutional DefenseInternationalSexual & Reproductive HealthSocial HealthWhopper of the Week Press Release Jun 01, 2026 Congress Must Block New Rules on Federal Grants, Defend Public Health Urges New regulations issued last week by the Office of Management and Budget regarding federal research grants amount to a declaration of war on impartial, evidence-based science, and Congress must act quickly to overturn them, Defend Public Health said today. Opinion May 29, 2026 Ebola outbreaks are always challenging. The Trump administration made the job harder. Epidemiologist and DPH member Tara C. Smith chronicles the long chain of Trump administration malfeasance and neglect that has weakened the response to the Ebola outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the disastrous DOGE cuts to international aid to the recent decision to bring Americans exposed to the virus to the U.S. for specialized care. Opinion May 28, 2026 Nurses Are the Backbone of US Healthcare—and They’re Getting Screwed Nurses are the largest U.S. healthcare profession and the backbone of patient care. After experiencing this first-hand during a hospital stay, Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves writes about how the Trump administration wants to deprive nurses and other critically needed healthcare professionals of critically needed student loans. Opinion May 27, 2026 Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Spreads Nonsense about Antidepressants RFK Jr. is unhappy that one in six American adults takes an antidepressant and believes that the U.S. faces a dependency crisis, driven by overmedicalization. The idea that reducing the use of drugs will solve our social, institutional and neuropsychiatric problems is a whopper. Opinion May 22, 2026 Trump and RFK Jr have a new approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom DPH member Gavin Yamey reviews the administration's attacks on global health assistance and vaccine access, writing that the U.S. is "holding vulnerable people in low income and middle income countries to ransom as an inhumane tool to weaken multilateral institutions and extract what the US wants from bilateral partnerships." He urges strengthened regional and multilateral cooperation as a way to minimize the damage. News May 22, 2026 Is Kennedy Slow-Assassinating Obamacare? Writer Jonathan Larsen takes an opinionated look at the Trump administration's often-underreported attacks on the Affordable Care Act, quoting DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs both her Bluesky account and from an op-ed she and fellow Coordinating Committee member Miranda Yaver wrote last year for The Hill. Opinion May 21, 2026 Effective Public Health Policy Making Requires a Sound Process Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, MD, MPH, published a commentary in the journal Public Health Practice and Management about the egregious process used by RFK Jr.'s ACIP to remove recommendations for the birth dose of HBV vaccine. Press Release May 21, 2026 Viral Outbreaks Show Urgent Need to Rebuild Disease Monitoring, Pandemic Preparedness Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, though unlikely to cause a pandemic, highlight the urgent need to repair the Trump administration’s destruction of our pandemic prevention, preparedness and response capabilities, members of Defend Public Health said today. Opinion May 16, 2026 When voting rights are weakened, health suffers DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills delve into the connections between voting rights and public health, noting, "When communities are shut out of the voting booth, it is no coincidence that they are also the ones losing their critical‑access hospitals and watching maternity care deserts spread around them." Opinion May 13, 2026 Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that “there are no cuts to Medicaid” as a result of that 2025 law. Opinion May 13, 2026 The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves explains that while the hantavirus likely poses little risk to most of us, "the real story is the collapse of pandemic preparedness in this country—all the public health and scientific infrastructure that has disappeared, the purge of talent, experience, and expertise that was meant to keep us safe." As a result, we won't be ready when a highly contagious virus strikes, which is sure to happen eventually. Opinion May 13, 2026 Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Places Flu “Freedom” Above Military Readiness Defense Secretary Hegseth announced the flu vaccine will no longer be required for U.S. service members. RFK Jr. defended the decision, down playing the vaccine's effectiveness and claiming soldiers should have some medical "freedom." It is worrisome that the Secretaries of Defense and Health are willing to compromise both service members' health and U.S. military readiness. Pagination Previous page Previous … Page 3 Current page 4 Page 5 Page 6 … Next page Next
Press Release Jun 01, 2026 Congress Must Block New Rules on Federal Grants, Defend Public Health Urges New regulations issued last week by the Office of Management and Budget regarding federal research grants amount to a declaration of war on impartial, evidence-based science, and Congress must act quickly to overturn them, Defend Public Health said today.
Opinion May 29, 2026 Ebola outbreaks are always challenging. The Trump administration made the job harder. Epidemiologist and DPH member Tara C. Smith chronicles the long chain of Trump administration malfeasance and neglect that has weakened the response to the Ebola outbreak that began in the Democratic Republic of Congo, from the disastrous DOGE cuts to international aid to the recent decision to bring Americans exposed to the virus to the U.S. for specialized care.
Opinion May 28, 2026 Nurses Are the Backbone of US Healthcare—and They’re Getting Screwed Nurses are the largest U.S. healthcare profession and the backbone of patient care. After experiencing this first-hand during a hospital stay, Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves writes about how the Trump administration wants to deprive nurses and other critically needed healthcare professionals of critically needed student loans.
Opinion May 27, 2026 Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Spreads Nonsense about Antidepressants RFK Jr. is unhappy that one in six American adults takes an antidepressant and believes that the U.S. faces a dependency crisis, driven by overmedicalization. The idea that reducing the use of drugs will solve our social, institutional and neuropsychiatric problems is a whopper.
Opinion May 22, 2026 Trump and RFK Jr have a new approach to global health: holding vulnerable people to ransom DPH member Gavin Yamey reviews the administration's attacks on global health assistance and vaccine access, writing that the U.S. is "holding vulnerable people in low income and middle income countries to ransom as an inhumane tool to weaken multilateral institutions and extract what the US wants from bilateral partnerships." He urges strengthened regional and multilateral cooperation as a way to minimize the damage.
News May 22, 2026 Is Kennedy Slow-Assassinating Obamacare? Writer Jonathan Larsen takes an opinionated look at the Trump administration's often-underreported attacks on the Affordable Care Act, quoting DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs both her Bluesky account and from an op-ed she and fellow Coordinating Committee member Miranda Yaver wrote last year for The Hill.
Opinion May 21, 2026 Effective Public Health Policy Making Requires a Sound Process Dr. Ronald Valdiserri, MD, MPH, published a commentary in the journal Public Health Practice and Management about the egregious process used by RFK Jr.'s ACIP to remove recommendations for the birth dose of HBV vaccine.
Press Release May 21, 2026 Viral Outbreaks Show Urgent Need to Rebuild Disease Monitoring, Pandemic Preparedness Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, though unlikely to cause a pandemic, highlight the urgent need to repair the Trump administration’s destruction of our pandemic prevention, preparedness and response capabilities, members of Defend Public Health said today.
Opinion May 16, 2026 When voting rights are weakened, health suffers DPH members Donna Gaffney and Teri Mills delve into the connections between voting rights and public health, noting, "When communities are shut out of the voting booth, it is no coincidence that they are also the ones losing their critical‑access hospitals and watching maternity care deserts spread around them."
Opinion May 13, 2026 Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressional hearings last month, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. misleadingly claimed that “there are no cuts to Medicaid” as a result of that 2025 law.
Opinion May 13, 2026 The Hantavirus Isn’t the Biggest Threat We’re Facing DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves explains that while the hantavirus likely poses little risk to most of us, "the real story is the collapse of pandemic preparedness in this country—all the public health and scientific infrastructure that has disappeared, the purge of talent, experience, and expertise that was meant to keep us safe." As a result, we won't be ready when a highly contagious virus strikes, which is sure to happen eventually.
Opinion May 13, 2026 Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Places Flu “Freedom” Above Military Readiness Defense Secretary Hegseth announced the flu vaccine will no longer be required for U.S. service members. RFK Jr. defended the decision, down playing the vaccine's effectiveness and claiming soldiers should have some medical "freedom." It is worrisome that the Secretaries of Defense and Health are willing to compromise both service members' health and U.S. military readiness.
