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DPH members Arthur Lavin and Teri Mills address current vaccine debates about "personal freedom" from the point of view of grandparents old enough to remember the pre-vaccine era when polio was common. "In America, freedom has never meant the absence of limits when others are placed in danger," they write. "Polio vaccination is no different."

In this roundup of alarmed reactions to the appointment of COVID contrarian and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya to also be acting director of CDC, Coordinating Committee member James Alwine says Bhattacharya can't be trusted to lead either agency, adding, "“I think some of the things he’s doing certainly look to me like he’s getting back at those who came down on him because they criticized him so much about the Great Barrington Resolution.”

DPH members and GrandParents for Vaccines cofounders Teri Mills and Donna Gaffney address the role of ordinary citizens in the face of injustice. They write, "Democracy is not self-executing. The Constitution does not defend itself. It depends on citizens who understand that rights and responsibilities travel together. Freedom of speech means showing up and speaking."

In this roundup of alarmed reactions to the appointment of Jay Bhattacharya as acting director of the badly-damaged CDC, DPH Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken notes that Trump is likely dodging the Senate confirmation process as he tends to do when it's going to be difficult, "given the damage the administration's health policies have caused and the growing opposition to his assault on public health.”

As the highly controversial Jay Bhattacharya is tapped to be acting CDC director, DPH Coordinating Committee member James Alwine notes that the result of RFK Jr.-engineered appointments like this are "increased cases of measles, whooping cough, flu, tetanus, mumps, and more. Children are suffering and dying.”

DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves lays out the many, often unseen, ways in which Trump, HHS Secretary Kennedy and National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya are sabotaging medical research at the NIH. He notes that this process of destruction continues even as some deluded scientists mistakenly applaud the president for signing a budget that theoretically provides a decent level of research funding.

In this detailed look at the MAHA attack on certain vaccine ingredients, a variety of experts weigh in on the flawed arguments raised by HHS Secretary Kennedy and antivaxxers. DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs notes that the form of mercury in the vaccine additive thimerosal is not the same as the type that people are rightly concerned about, and says that the antivaxxers keep "moving the goalposts."

Coordinating Committee member Bruce Mirken lays out the absurdity of the Trump administration's decision to revoke the EPA's finding that climate change endangers public health and welfare, noting that climate change has unquestionably already killed people in the U.S. and elsewhere and increases the likelihood of catastrophic fires, floods and epidemics.

From stopping life-saving aid to developing nations to cuts to food assistance and other safety-net programs in the U.S. to RFK Jr.'s relentless attacks on vaccines, the Trump administration is waging a global war on children. DPH Coordinating Committee members Elizabeth Jacobs and James Alwine lay out the deadly details.

This update on the American Academy of Pediatrics' suit over vaccine policy notes, "In the days leading up to the hearing, public health groups have flocked to show their support for the AAP. On Tuesday the group Defend Public Health filed an amicus brief, arguing that the changes to the vaccine schedule — which acting CDC Director Jim O’Neill accepted — did not follow best practices for vaccine policy and that HHS’s statements that the changes would increase trust in vaccines and its comparisons to peer nations were faulty."