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Promoting and protecting the public’s health: recommendations for a new Administration and Congress, 2025

Big Cities Health Coalition

To support this critical command and control need, Congress established the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR) in 2023 to coordinate the federal agencies’ domestic response to public health threats that have pandemic potential or that may cause significant disruption.

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Clearing up confusion on drug price rules and revisions

Association of Health Care Journalists

The topics covered in Trumps orders ranged from future pandemic preparedness to withdrawing the United States from the Paris Climate Agreement. New prices for the latest 15 medications would take effect in 2027 while new prices for the first 10 drugs will be effective in 2026. 15 new drugs selected for negotiations On Jan.