Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend ...

Jonathan Samet, Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colorado. Ross C. Brownson ([email protected]), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. The COVID-19 pandemic and other ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. Health systems scaled back or closed equity offices. Federal ...

It was easy at the start of the pandemic to be confident that the American health-care system could rise to the challenge. Such optimism has long since drained away, however, due to more than 1 ...

Public health systems sit on mountains of data — yet insight remains scarce. The organizations closing that gap aren’t just investing in better dashboards. They’re fundamentally rethinking who gets to ...

Lately, coverage and commentary about vaccines have dominated public health news. Reducing public health to vaccines is dangerous. Keeping the public focused on such a narrow, controversial and ...

Yesterday, the Common Health Coalition issued a major report that “analyzes how cuts to public health infrastructure will ripple through the U.S. health care system – leading to sicker patients, ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

Dr. Georges Benjamin has seen many infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats in the near-25 years he's led the American Public Health Association, or APHA, a professional group ...

On his way to being confirmed as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised lawmakers he would do nothing that “makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines.” ...

This article is authored by Neerja Birla, founder and chairperson, Aditya Birla Education Trust and Mpower.