It’s time to talk COVID vaccines.
OK, let’s talk COVID vaccines. Are you confused about whether you will be able to get a COVID vaccine this fall, if you want one? If so, you’re not alone.It’s confusing…
Medicaid cuts hurt all of us.
It’s been way too long since the last What in the Health?! update. Trust me, it’s not because there haven’t been important things happening (COVID vaccines for pregnant…
Five things that will make you mad–and a list of things you can do about it.
We are overdue for another update on what the health is going on in the US public health world right now. There’s a lot. What comes below almost reads like The Onion,…
The first 100 days…and beyond.
Well, today marks the end of the 2025 version of the infamous “first 100 days” of any new presidency. What a wild ride it’s been. For brevity I’m not going to try to…
The war against research, equity, and data.
In the last few weeks I’ve been traveling a lot for work, spending long days in the field observing, listening, and learning from people working hard to improve and…
Updates from cruise ship inspections to Harvard.
I didn’t post anything last week, not because there wasn’t anything important happening in the world of public health, but because it was all just a little too much.…
THIS IS NOT AN APRIL FOOL’S JOKE. Spread the word of today’s dangerous actions!
When I worked on an update late into the evening yesterday, I didn’t expect that my updates about the destruction to public health infrastructure would appear as just an…
It’s raining fire. We must resist.
Honestly, it’s hard to keep up with all the assaults on public health right now—and that’s by design. To those of us who work in public health or medical research (or…
It’s time to talk NIH. Our lives depend on it.
OK, it’s time to talk NIH—which is an acronym probably everyone knows by week 10 of the Trump Administration 2.0, but just in case, is the National Institutes of Health.…
Who needs money for HIV prevention, anyway? We do.
Well, y’all, these last few days have been a doozy. On Tuesday, word started to spread like wildfire that the Trump administration was planning to effectively eliminate…
What have we learned about protecting the public’s health in the last 5 years? (Not much, apparently.)
Depending on what anniversary date you want to use, it’s been just about exactly 5 years since the COVID pandemic started. (It started earlier in China, of course, and…
What does it mean to freeze $2 billion in foreign aid? (The Supreme Court edition.)
On Wednesday, the Supreme Court entered the fray about the US $2 billion in foreign aid, issuing a 5-4 decision that refused to allow for a continued freeze of the…