Live Q&A today, February 4, 11 a.m. ET, with American Public Health Association Executive Director Dr. Georges C. Benjamin
The APHA delivered the new Trump administration one of its first losses. We'll talk about where things stand.
Within the first couple of weeks of his second term, President Donald Trump has unleashed a blizzard of executive orders affecting public health. We’ve seen gag orders on federal health agency communications, canceled research meetings at the NIH, frozen grants, and the censorship of CDC scientists, who were forced to retract or pause the publication of any research manuscript under consideration by any medical or scientific journal.
International health is also under threat, with a pause on foreign aid, and the US withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Public health leaders are sounding the alarm, warning of the potential consequences for both domestic and global health.
One group that has stepped up already? The American Public Health Association. The APHA sued the Trump administration over the freeze in federal grants last week and scored an early victory.
We’ll discuss that and more today at 11 a.m. ET on Instagram.
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What are your questions? Ask in the comments now and I’ll get to as many as I can.
I tried clicking the link but it's not clear to me how to view this stream. Maybe I have to be logged in, but hopefully future streams can move away from Meta.
If Medicare or Medicaid cuts become extensive, do you think a national doctors' strike would be a helpful response?