Yes, there are many benefits of cutting back. But bars are closing. Jobs are going away. And a way of being together can feel harder to find.

This paper deconstructs the myth of the ‘naturally sober’ woman by tracing its historical and cultural construction in the US across four time periods: colonial, nineteenth century temperance, Proh...

What is the role of critical public health in crisis? by Tamar Antin If you’ve been reading the news, you know that public health in the United States is under direct threat from our own government…

Trump’s executive orders are affecting how federally funded journals operate. Some researchers have raised alarms.

What I heard and how I’m approaching this moment.

Scientific researchers on Wednesday sued to secure reinstatement of National Institutes of Health grants that funded research on topics like LGBTQ health, COVID-19 and vaccine hesitancy canceled by Republican President Donald Trump's administration as part of an "ideological purge."

Some 2,000 scientists, including dozens of Nobel Prize winners, have signed an open letter warning that the U.S. lead in science is being "decimated" by the Trump administration's cuts to research.

Fight Trump's funding freeze to protect lifesaving care and research.

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.

Two California researchers say a U.S. government health publication instructed them to remove data on sexual orientation from a scientific manuscript that had been accepted for publication.

So it happened. We have officially withdrawn a paper accepted for publication in a scientific journal because of editorial requests to remove language deemed out of compliance with executive orders.

I fully recognize why social scientists craft their proposals to align with a funder’s mission – this is the reality of grantsmanship. In a soft-money research environment, success depends not … Self ...

Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.

Our new editorial, “Left behind again: Rural America and the hypocrisy of populism,” has just been published in the Journal of Critical Public Health. In it, we explore the sources … Critical Public H...

While scholars have long debated whether truly impartial funding sources for research exist, many consider that the federal government comes the closest. Given the current environment, can our governm...

This week I learned of Dr. Leonard Syme’s passing. I met Dr. Syme over twenty years ago. Though our encounter was brief, that single meeting with him set me on … Dr. Leonard Syme Read More

What the hell is going on?

This week I learned of Dr. Leonard Syme’s passing. I met Dr. Syme over twenty years ago. Though our encounter was brief, that single meeting with him set me on … Dr. Leonard Syme Read More