Critical public health surveys in the US are facing deep cuts after a series of layoffs hit government employees working on key nationwide data systems. These datasets, which measure everything from ...

In the nine months since anti-vaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy Jr stepped in as US health secretary, all eyes have been on the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency that is ...

Health experts are warning that the Trump administration’s new “America First Global Health Strategy” could further damage public health systems already reeling from billions of dollars in foreign aid ...

On 5 December 2025, President Donald J. Trump issued a memorandum instructing US Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to align the US childhood vaccine schedule with that of “peer ...