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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."

A grassroots organization of health professionals have released a report outlining major health challenges in the US and calling for the removal of Robert F Kennedy Jr from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The report from Defend Public Health, a new organization of about 3,000 health professionals and allies, is an attempt to get ahead of misinformation and lack of information from health officials.

DPH Coordinating Committee members Miranda Yaver and Beth Jacobs outline how HHS Secretary Kennedy is seeking to undermine the Affordable Care Act and limit access to vaccines by stocking a key advisory committee with anti-vaxxers.

DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard and colleagues discuss findings of a recent study that counters disinformation about supposed harms of aluminum in vaccines, and the ongoing attempts to discredit the study by HHS director Robert F Kennedy Jr.

This outstanding piece coauthored by DPH member Aimee Pugh Bernard highlights the benefits of mRNA technology, and the impact when science is attacked by government officials.