HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 30, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free Atlanta newsletter here. Can a photograph improve public health? A recent exhibit at the city’s Arts Xchange shared photos and comments illustrating how the people of East Point view health in their community. Department of Health and Human Services.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

During the last two weeks, we’ve seen an avalanche of policies directed at dismantling our already hurting infrastructure for public health. Hope: The antidote to fear The pace of these firestorms means we rarely have time to reflect on public health wins before another blaze demands our attention. Archiving resources.

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Sheffield DPH

AUGUST 22, 2024

Climate change is the most important public health crisis of the next 200 years. It is one of the priorities for Yorkshire and Humber Directors of public health. The actions that are good for the planet are good for health. The slides are here Improving health, protecting the planet. And thus policy. Enormously.

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Gideon

APRIL 8, 2020

Was there a significant media response at the time for emerging infectious diseases? Public health officials were telling people to wear mosquito repellent and destroy mosquito habitats if found in or near their homes. Tracey gave a TedX talk at UCLA on ‘How monitoring animal health can predict human disease outbreaks ’.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

is now the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), the department that oversees everything from the FDA and CDC to Medicare and Medicaid. A man who has devoted a large amount of his life to eroding trust in vaccines is now in the nation’s top health post. Social media rewards sensational content, not accuracy.

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The Health Care Blog

JANUARY 21, 2022

Misinformation and disinformation (intentionally wrong information) have plagued the storyline of the Covid19 vaccine since the early days of its development, creating a healthcare communications crisis that has not only stalled U.S. The full campaign can be viewed on 120over80 MKTG’s YouTube channel , but can it still have an impact?

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Your Local Epidemiologist

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

election this week sent shock waves through the field of public health—not just domestically, but internationally as well. For many in public health, like me, the prospect of national leadership by individuals with an established track record of ignoring the evidence is deeply disconcerting. For example, RFK Jr.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 28, 2025

National Institutes of Health, like many federal agencies, has experienced unprecedented restrictions on their operations in the new administrations first week, including a communications pause that abruptly halted meetings and workshops , a hiring freeze, and a moratorium on travel. economy; every U.S.

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Within 24 to 48 hours of the first detection of the virus, state and federal animal health officials work with farms to cull infected flocks to reduce the risk of transmission. This time, the risk to human health is only growing, experts say. This article is from a partnership that includes Michigan Public , NPR , and KFF Health News.

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Frontiers

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Siouxsie Wiles is a microbiologist and award-winning science communicator based at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa New Zealand. Dr Drew Harris (@ drewaharris ), a health policy and population health educator, tweeted a modified version of a CDC graphic showing how protective measures could be used to slow daily cases of a disease.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) COVID-19 public health campaign, revealing it was fraught with miscalculations that set the stage for widespread public distrust. Despite this, the administration launched the "We Can Do This" Campaign, spending over $900 million to promote vaccine uptake and public health measures.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 18, 2022

Judging by other parts of the interview, ‘they’ means government health agencies, big pharma, mainstream media. million to five institutions (Boston University, Harvard Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, Michigan State University, and Oregon Health and Science University [OHSU]) to study vaccines and the menstrual cycle.

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NC Health News

APRIL 12, 2025

By Rachana Pradhan KFF Health News Mass firings at the FDA have decimated divisions tasked with releasing public records generated by the agencys regulatory activities in sectors including tobacco, food, medical devices, and veterinary medicine. follow our coverage of health policy RFK Jr.s Kennedy Jr.s He declined to elaborate.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 7, 2025

Moderator Karen Blum AHCJ Health Beat Leader for Health IT Karen Blum is an independent health and science journalist, based in the Baltimore area. Department of Health and Human Services. global health policy, including in areas such as drug pricing, medical devices, global health security and non-communicable diseases.

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The Hill

MARCH 3, 2025

In the first test of the Trump administration's outbreak response, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Two days later, Kennedy in a social media post outlined how his agency is responding, including by providing the Texas Department of Health with MMR vaccines. But public health experts aren't ready to celebrate.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The Health and Human Services appointees were rounded out last week under the new Trump administration. and Voices highly critical of Covid-19 era policies. Dr. Bhattacharya is a health economist, and Dr. Makary is a pancreatic surgeon and public policy researcher. But we must not lose the forest for the trees.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 31, 2024

Thats the sentiment I got, and related to, when asking my colleagues to recall what being a health reporter from 2017 to 2021 was like. Tara Haelle , an independent journalist in Texas and AHCJs health beat leader for infectious diseases and medical studies, describes those years as, bluntly, hell. Set (social) media boundaries.

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KFF Health News

APRIL 10, 2025

The cuts spared at least some workers who furnish documents in response to court orders in FOIA lawsuits involving the FDA division that regulates vaccines, which includes litigation brought by an ally of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s “These claims are untrue and unfounded,” Nixon said.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 29, 2025

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.

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KFF Health News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

.” He invited scholars, journalists, and policy wonks who, like him, have criticized the U.S. Bhattacharya also invited public health authorities who had considered his alternative approach reckless. “Until now it has been mostly a war on impressions and media, kind of mobilizing the troops. None of them showed up.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Future steps to protect health data On Feb. 4, AHCJ convened the representatives of roughly a dozen news nonprofits and journalism scholars to talk about future steps for protecting health data. Stay tuned for updates on where to find this critical health data. See the next section for PrEP. However, if Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,

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