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What happens when a vaccine skeptic leads health policy? Ask Florida

NPR Health

Among the names being floated to head the Department of Health and Human Services are RFK Jr. and Florida Surgeon General Joseph Ladapo. Both are vaccine skeptics, which worries pediatricians. Image credit: Rustam Shaimov)

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WHO introduces new guidance to strengthen mental health policies

News Medical Health Sciences

The World Health Organization (WHO) today launched new guidance to help all countries reform and strengthen mental health policies and systems.

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APHA’s Policy Action Institute offers roadmap to better health policy

Public Health Newswire

Public health professionals encouraged to be ‘champions of veracity’

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Here's what we're getting ourselves into

Your Local Epidemiologist

trillion agency and far-reaching public health policy. Wellness marketing has made this idea extremely popular, but as a public health policy, it is overly simplistic, biased against technological advances, and can potentially harm our health. ’s eligibility to run a $1.8

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RFK Jr. issues rule barring public comment on HHS rulemaking

The Hill

Gostin believes this policy is sure to be litigated, noting that courts have enforced the Richardson waiver in the past. "My My impression of the rule is that that the Secretary knows that much of what he's done and what he intends to do to radically transform health policy.

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Nominee to run NIH faces Senate scrutiny

NPR Health

Jay Bhattacharya, a Stanford professor of health policy, appears before the Senate HELP committee, which will vet his nomination to become the next director of the National Institutes of Health. Image credit: Taylor Hill)

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APHA’s Policy Action Institute offers roadmap to better health policy

Public Health Newswire

Public health professionals encouraged to be ‘champions of veracity’