On this day, Jan. 30: WHO declares COVID-19 a public health emergency

On Jan. 30, 2020, World Health Organization officials declared the 2019 novel coronavirus outbreak -- later to be dubbed ...

Confusion remains after Trump administration abruptly halts public health funding to cities and states, then reverses course

As public health departments across the country prepared for a massive winter storm this weekend, notice landed in their inboxes that pivotal grant funding from the US Centers for Disease Control and ...

Editorial: Playing with public health

Another dangerous idea - ending polio vaccine mandates - emerges on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s watch. Congress must remove him ...

EPA’s new way of evaluating pollution rules hands deregulators a sledgehammer and license to ignore public health

When I worked for the Environmental Protection Agency in the 2010s as an Obama administration appointee, I helped write and ...

The U.S. Has Pulled Out of the WHO. Here’s What That Means for Public Health

As the U.S.’s withdrawal from the WHO becomes official, the consequences for the world’s health could be serious.

Opinion: To restore trust in public health, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. must go

Restoring faith in public health is clearly not one of Kennedy’s goals, nor is it within his skillset.

Public health is becoming a system of haves and have-nots | GUEST COMMENTARY

With the federal government cutting vital programs and reducing the public health workforce (the Centers for Disease Control ...
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