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Annals of LGBTQ Public and Population Health. DPH member and journal editor Perry N. Halkitis addresses threats to LGBTQ health from pending US Supreme Court cases and the failure of many institutions to Trump administration attacks.

In this nationally syndicated column that appeared in the Miami Herald, Kansas City Star, and Charlotte Observer, among others, coordinating committee member James Alwine lays out the consequences of the Trump/RFK Jr. destruction of the U.S. health research infrastructure.

In this podcast episode, DPH coordinating committee member James Alwine discusses the Trump/RFK Jr. destruction of the U.S. health research infrastructure that has saved so many lives.

Led by Yale faculty, Defend Public Health is mobilizing thousands of scientists, clinicians and students to push back against political threats to evidence-based health policy.

DPH member John Besser draws on his experiences working for the Minnesota Dept. of Health and the CDC to lay out the devastating effects of federal health cuts on his state.

In this French language article (paywalled), DPH member Oceane Sorel discusses her work explaining virology to regular people, including a discussion of Defend Public Health and our work.

DPH coordinating committee member and Yale epidemiologist Gregg Gonsalves looks at the administration’s systematic attack on knowledge and researchers and finds similarities to Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Soviet purges.

DPH members Timothy Holz and Teri Mills outline the potentially deadly start to Robert F. Kennedy’s Jr.’s tenure at HHS, including his mishandling of the deadly measles outbreak.

DPH member Brittany Charlton, a Harvard epidemiologist, discusses the political squashing of her research on gay, lesbian and transgender health and how she and others are fighting back.

DPH members Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills on the devastating impact of cuts to NIH medical research.

DPH members Arthur Lavin and Teri Mills write about how anti-vaccine policies and cuts to Medicaid and help for children with disabilities will hurt America’s kids.