At approximately 4:50 p.m. on Friday, a gunman opened fire at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta. The attack left bullet holes in office windows and claimed the ...

More than 750 public health workers sent a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday, urging him to “stop spreading inaccurate health information” and guarantee employees’ safety, ...

Every Tuesday, protesters gather outside the CDC in Atlanta to point out possible public health dangers due to drastic federal cuts. When President Trump made his push to shrink the federal workforce, ...

Carlson is an infectious disease epidemiologist at Yale University. Kennedy is a public health communicator and worked at the CDC for more than six years. A week ago, on Aug. 8, a gunman attacked the ...

Pledging communication about vaccines that will be “grounded in science, not ideology,” the governors of California, Washington and Oregon announced Wednesday they will form a West Coast Health ...

The CDC announced Monday an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots to all ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, long considered the nation’s – if not the world’s – premier public health organization, is mired in a crisis that not only threatens Americans’ health ...

Dr. Jay K. Varma is a special contributor to Healthbeat. Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free national newsletter here. The resignations and public statements of multiple ...

Editor's Note (10/15/25): On Wednesday a federal judge in California temporarily halted the September 10 layoffs of federal workers. U.S. District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco granted the ...

The CDC director declared racism a “serious public health threat” and announced new initiatives the agency is taking to address health inequities in an April 8 statement. Rochelle Walensky, MD, CDC ...