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The beginning and end of Monday Morning

Monday Morning

Messonnier is eminently qualified by virtue of her training, including the Epidemiologic Intelligence Service, her more than 20 years’ experience of leadership in infectious diseases at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and her recent leadership of pandemic preparedness and health systems at the Skoll Foundation.

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

Big Cities Health Coalition

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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Kennedy’s hearings for HHS Secretary start today: What Americans need to know 

Association of Health Care Journalists

The past two weeks have been a dizzying whirlwind of executive orders, halting all health agencies public-facing communications and freezing all federal funding until a federal judges temporary restraining order paused that order. as Health and Human Services Secretary. Kennedy, Jr.