Lately, coverage and commentary about vaccines have dominated public health news. Reducing public health to vaccines is dangerous. Keeping the public focused on such a narrow, controversial and ...

A new analysis of state public health systems shows Ohio’s has some of the worst funding support in the nation, and that funding could go down even more in the newest state budget. Using 2021 data ...

Premier, Inc. — a leading health care improvement company uniting more than 4,350 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers — partnered with STAT Brand Studio to ...

Dr. Georges Benjamin has seen many infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats in the near-25 years he's led the American Public Health Association, or APHA, a professional group ...

On his way to being confirmed as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised lawmakers he would do nothing that “makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines.” ...

Yesterday, the Common Health Coalition issued a major report that “analyzes how cuts to public health infrastructure will ripple through the U.S. health care system – leading to sicker patients, ...

This week’s Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it ...

Blackstock is a former computer scientist, physician, researcher, and public health and health equity leader. Fatou, M.S.W., is a disability justice advocate, strategist, and founder and CEO of ...

It’s not normal for public health to be so partisan. The current administration has slashed Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) programs that protect Americans from cancer, heart disease, ...