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DPH Coordinating Committee member Miranda Yaver addresses a proposed Medicaid rule from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services -- a rule that, she writes, "doesn’t simply codify Congress’ historic cuts to Medicaid. It expands on them. Quite apart from rooting out fraud and waste, it is yet another step to roll back healthcare access for our nation’s most vulnerable."

This roundup of appalled reactions to the recent OMB announcement of new regulations gutting peer review and giving political appointees authority over federal grants -- with a mandate to block anything not aligned with the administration's idea of "American values" -- quotes a variety of scientific and other experts, including DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves, who comments, “These rules declare war on honest science.”

In a roundup of the day's health-related news, the Post quotes DPH Coordinating Committee member Gregg Gonsalves from our recent statement condemning new OMB rules eviscerating the peer-review process in favor of political control over federal research (and other) grants. (Scroll down to see the item).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.