Cuts Gut Public Health

Cuts gut public health

Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. State and local health departments responsible for critical work including inspecting restaurants, monitoring wastewater for harmful germs, responding to outbreaks and other tasks to protect…

Reforming Public Health Agencies: A Post-COVID Agenda

There can be no Covid-19 closure without public health reform. Too much went wrong during the dreadful pandemic that cost an estimated 1.2 million Americans their lives. Trump Administration officials should therefore resist the powerful temptation to jettison that unhappy experience down the Orwellian “memory hole.” Simply putting that divisive episode behind us would be a serious public disservice. Perhaps Dr. Scott Atlas, Hoover Institution S…

‘The safety net of the safety net’: Why education and transportation cuts are also public health cuts

Amid deep funding cuts, Massachusetts health chief Robert Goldstein says public health — the "safety net of the safety net" — is under attack

Takeaways from AP's report on how federal public health cuts are ...

Deep Cuts Erode the Foundations of US Public Health System, End Progress, Threaten Worse to Come