NEWSROOM Search Type - Any -NewsOpinionPress Release Topics - Any -ClimateDisability JusticeHealth Care & InsuranceInfectious DiseaseInstitutional DefenseInternationalSexual & Reproductive HealthSocial HealthWhopper of the Week News Dec 12, 2025 Some countries recommend fewer childhood vaccines. That plan is riskier in America. The Trump Administration has proposed reviewing and reducing vaccine schedules similar to "peer, developed countries." Experts, including Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee Member Beth Jacobs, say this strategy ignores the health needs of Americans and the unique vulnerability caused by the lack of universal health care access in the USA. Opinion Dec 11, 2025 CDC Cuts Endanger Everyone Defend Public Health member Fitzhugh C. Pannill, MD, FACP writes about the dangers of RFK Jr.'s hijacking of the CDC. Opinion Dec 11, 2025 The Business of Health Insurance in America Because the Congress has not acted to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, millions of Americans are about to be hit with massive increases in health insurance premiums -- unless Congress shifts course and acts quickly. One of our members explains what this means to her as a person living with chronic illness. News Dec 10, 2025 Advocates, health care professionals urge Gov. Whitmer to protect public health, vaccine access Michigan Public profiles local Defend Public Health members' efforts to lobby Governor Gretchen Whitmer and state lawmakers to take various actions to protect public health and access to vaccines for state residents. Opinion Dec 10, 2025 Vaccines save lives, Mr. Kennedy In light of RFK Jr's ongoing war on vaccinations, Defend Public Health members Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills discuss the true impact of vaccines to prevent deaths, hospitalizations and illnesses and what is at stake when anti-vaccine misinformation becomes Federal policy. Opinion Dec 10, 2025 Whopper of the Week: No, RFK, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) has repeatedly said that antidepressant medications may be linked to mass shootings. Ignoring the considerable evidence that there are no links between antidepressants and violence towards others, Secretary Kennedy insists that new studies are required to explore this discredited theory. Opinion Dec 09, 2025 Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves argues that it's time for the public health field to stop retreating in the face of attacks, arguing, "Race, gender, and sexuality may be a third rail of American politics for some, but for those of us in public health and biomedicine, these issues are central to our work." Opinion Dec 08, 2025 RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health DPH Coordinating Committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs explain how HHS Secretary Kennedy has eviscerated the CDC, from cutting vital disease tracking programs to using its website to peddle disinformation. This nationally syndicated column has appeared in newspapers nationwide, from the Fort Worth Star Telegram to the Sacramento Bee. News Dec 06, 2025 Trump urges a new vaccine schedule. Here’s what other countries do. The Trump administration wants to rethink the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, citing Denmark as a comparison. In this Washington Post analysis, DPH member Jessica Malaty Rivera sets the record straight, explaining, “Denmark is about the size of Maryland, so what works to protect a small, very highly vaccinated population like Denmark cannot be extrapolated for a very large, heterogeneous and much more diverse population like the U.S.” News Dec 05, 2025 CDC advisory committee hears spurious claims about vaccine safety In this wrap-up of the 2nd day of the December ACIP meeting, DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs explains the value of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, explaining: “It sort of primes your immune system to have a really great response to the vaccine. We get aluminum in our bodies all the time, from anything at all that we do.” Press Release Dec 05, 2025 Vaccine Panel Attacks Children’s Health Today’s decision by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to end the recommendation for a universal birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine and its attempts to cast doubt on the whole childhood vaccine schedule constitute a reckless, dangerous move away from science and evidence-based policy, Defend Public Health said today. News Dec 05, 2025 RFK Jr. vaccine advisers to scrutinize childhood immunization schedule This preview of the December 5 session of ACIP lays out the fears of health professionals and medical researchers that the panel will sow confusion and doubt about safe, effective childhood vaccines. DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs tells the Post that allowing testimony from the likes of a lawyer who sues vaccine makers "is an egregious attack on public health." 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News Dec 12, 2025 Some countries recommend fewer childhood vaccines. That plan is riskier in America. The Trump Administration has proposed reviewing and reducing vaccine schedules similar to "peer, developed countries." Experts, including Defend Public Health Coordinating Committee Member Beth Jacobs, say this strategy ignores the health needs of Americans and the unique vulnerability caused by the lack of universal health care access in the USA.
Opinion Dec 11, 2025 CDC Cuts Endanger Everyone Defend Public Health member Fitzhugh C. Pannill, MD, FACP writes about the dangers of RFK Jr.'s hijacking of the CDC.
Opinion Dec 11, 2025 The Business of Health Insurance in America Because the Congress has not acted to extend Affordable Care Act subsidies, millions of Americans are about to be hit with massive increases in health insurance premiums -- unless Congress shifts course and acts quickly. One of our members explains what this means to her as a person living with chronic illness.
News Dec 10, 2025 Advocates, health care professionals urge Gov. Whitmer to protect public health, vaccine access Michigan Public profiles local Defend Public Health members' efforts to lobby Governor Gretchen Whitmer and state lawmakers to take various actions to protect public health and access to vaccines for state residents.
Opinion Dec 10, 2025 Vaccines save lives, Mr. Kennedy In light of RFK Jr's ongoing war on vaccinations, Defend Public Health members Donna A. Gaffney and Teri Mills discuss the true impact of vaccines to prevent deaths, hospitalizations and illnesses and what is at stake when anti-vaccine misinformation becomes Federal policy.
Opinion Dec 10, 2025 Whopper of the Week: No, RFK, Antidepressants Do Not Cause Mass Shootings Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. (RFK) has repeatedly said that antidepressant medications may be linked to mass shootings. Ignoring the considerable evidence that there are no links between antidepressants and violence towards others, Secretary Kennedy insists that new studies are required to explore this discredited theory.
Opinion Dec 09, 2025 Public Health Needs a New Motto: No Apologies, No Surrender DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves argues that it's time for the public health field to stop retreating in the face of attacks, arguing, "Race, gender, and sexuality may be a third rail of American politics for some, but for those of us in public health and biomedicine, these issues are central to our work."
Opinion Dec 08, 2025 RFK Jr.’s Deepening Threat to Public Health DPH Coordinating Committee members James Alwine and Elizabeth Jacobs explain how HHS Secretary Kennedy has eviscerated the CDC, from cutting vital disease tracking programs to using its website to peddle disinformation. This nationally syndicated column has appeared in newspapers nationwide, from the Fort Worth Star Telegram to the Sacramento Bee.
News Dec 06, 2025 Trump urges a new vaccine schedule. Here’s what other countries do. The Trump administration wants to rethink the U.S. childhood vaccine schedule, citing Denmark as a comparison. In this Washington Post analysis, DPH member Jessica Malaty Rivera sets the record straight, explaining, “Denmark is about the size of Maryland, so what works to protect a small, very highly vaccinated population like Denmark cannot be extrapolated for a very large, heterogeneous and much more diverse population like the U.S.”
News Dec 05, 2025 CDC advisory committee hears spurious claims about vaccine safety In this wrap-up of the 2nd day of the December ACIP meeting, DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs explains the value of aluminum adjuvants in vaccines, explaining: “It sort of primes your immune system to have a really great response to the vaccine. We get aluminum in our bodies all the time, from anything at all that we do.”
Press Release Dec 05, 2025 Vaccine Panel Attacks Children’s Health Today’s decision by the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices to end the recommendation for a universal birth dose of Hepatitis B vaccine and its attempts to cast doubt on the whole childhood vaccine schedule constitute a reckless, dangerous move away from science and evidence-based policy, Defend Public Health said today.
News Dec 05, 2025 RFK Jr. vaccine advisers to scrutinize childhood immunization schedule This preview of the December 5 session of ACIP lays out the fears of health professionals and medical researchers that the panel will sow confusion and doubt about safe, effective childhood vaccines. DPH Coordinating Committee member Elizabeth Jacobs tells the Post that allowing testimony from the likes of a lawyer who sues vaccine makers "is an egregious attack on public health."
