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Diana [Denni] Fishbein

@docdenni.bsky.social
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Nova Scholar, Nova Institute for Health; Senior Scientist, FPG Child Development Institute University of North Carolina; part-time researcher, Penn State University; president, National Prevention Science Coalition to Improve Lives

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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
No holds barred. We need to act decisively or public health as we knew it will be destroyed. www.thenation.com/article/poli...
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Trump Is Destroying Public Health. Democrats Need to Fight Back.
If they win in the midterms, the party must move quickly and aggressively to undo the harm Trump and his cronies have caused.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/pr...
sign.moveon.org
Protect NIH Funds from Being Redirected to the Department of War
NIH is one of America's most important national assets. Its research supports discoveries and advances in cancer, infectious diseases, mental health, addiction, chronic disease, child health, aging, a...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Supreme Court: Are they for us or against us? anurturingnation.substack.com/p/the-suprem...
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The Supreme Court’s Harm to America’s Children
Thus far, we have published several essays about ways in which the Supreme Court has harmed the nation.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
he White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...
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Trump Administration Plans to Upend Head Start by Deregulating It (Gift Article)
The White House tried but failed to block funding for preschool for poor children. Instead, it will seek to strip away standards on health, literacy — and brushing teeth.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The Trump Administration has hobbled AHRQ, the federal agency responsible for patient safety. This action is in direct contrast with "making America healthy again" and places all of us at risk and without recourse. Please share this story as widely as possible. kffhealthnews.org/news/ahrq-fu...
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Trump Has Quietly Throttled an Agency Devoted to the Safety of American Healthcare - KFF Health News
Congress appropriated $345 million for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality for the 2026 fiscal year, but the agency has spent less than $15 million on grants. AHRQ hasn’t issued a new one i...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
2027 is bound to be an even more challenging year for the millions of American who rely on Medicaid for their health care. Read on... open.substack.com/pub/chadsabo...
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Medicaid Is About to Make Treatment a Paperwork Test
The federal government recently published 135 pages explaining a new Medicaid “community engagement” requirement. That is an impressive amount of paper needed to avoid saying "work requirement".
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This is the best commentary I have read on the state of our government and the democrats failure to envision and message to the public a hopeful future for America. And what to do about it.... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...
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Opinion | America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Please join our full-day (or part of it!) webinar with NIH institute directors and other child health experts who will discuss where best to invest our precious federal dollars and elevate children and families in that research and policy agenda! Please repost!! www.npscoalition.org/federal-rese...
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LinkedIn
This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
I just wrote my first note on Substack substack.com/profile/1175...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Join our full-day (or part of it!) webinar with NIH institute directors & other child health experts who discuss where best to invest our precious federal dollars and elevate children and families in that research and policy agenda! www.npscoalition.org/federal-rese...
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Federal Research in Whole Child Health and Wellbeing
Alarming trends show U.S. children face growing health, academic, and social challenges, threatening future prosperity. This full-day webinar highlights evidence-based strategies and research to advan...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left zeteo.com/p/watch-trum...
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WATCH: Trump's Own Words Prove HE Is the Source of Most Violent Rhetoric, Not the Left
The GOP is now blaming the Dems for inciting violence, but it is Donald Trump who has invoked horrific language to attack immigrants, journalists, and his opponents for years. Zeteo has the receipts.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
@altnih4science.bsky.social This is what science has been reduced to... open.substack.com/pub/garyschw...
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Psychedelic drug policy via podcaster influence
It’s Sunday and I should be chilling. But I can't let this go by today.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
@altnih4science.bsky.social This impact tracker estimates the 1 year human impact of the funding freeze on USAID. 159,272 people have died so far as a result, 15,954 of them children. Where is the awareness, the media coverage, the outrage?!!! pepfar.impactcounter.com
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PEPFAR Impact Tracker
Track the impact of PEPFAR funding halt
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Please join us and share widely with your colleagues and networks! www.npscoalition.org/congressiona...
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Protecting Federal Leadership in Addiction Science and Public Health
The Assiction Science Defense Netowrk (ASDN) is hosting a six-part congressional briefing series on the urgent need for sustained federal support for addiction research, prevention, treatment, and rec...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
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Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
OPINION: Policy changes sweeping the nation are harming our students. Educators must fight back hechingerreport.org/opinion-poli...
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OPINION: Policy changes sweeping the nation are harming our students. Educators must fight back - The Hechinger Report
President Trump is aggressively stepping up efforts to deport undocumented immigrants. The new policies sweeping the nation deeply affect and harm our children. Educators should do whatever they can t...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
thehill.com/opinion/immi...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Dr. Diana Fishbein: This is how addiction science is saving lives www.chicagotribune.com/2025/07/29/o...
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Dr. Diana Fishbein: This is how addiction science is saving lives
Medication-assisted treatment and harm reduction strategies are made possible by federal investments in addiction science.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
PRESS RELEASE: Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and Overdose and Reverse Gains docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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SOC Press Release 7-22-25.docx
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 24, 2025 – Chapel Hill, NC Leading Addiction Scientists Warn: Proposed Federal Budget Cuts Will Devastate Research, Treatment and Prevention of Addiction and O...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers
The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
slate.com/technology/2... This commentary is the most eloquent and appropriately targeted commentary I've read on the disconnect between what the RFK Jr MAHA report states are root causes of poor child health outcomes and what is administration is doing to harm children's health.
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I’m a Pediatrician. There’s So Much That the MAHA Report Does Get Right.
It sets up a compelling argument—then veers wildly off course.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
The Unprecedented War on Children open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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The Unprecedented War on Children
21 Coordinated Attacks That Threaten Children’s Health, Education, Development, Safety, Well-Being and Fundamental Rights
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
What Kind of Nation Penalizes Its Poorest Children? open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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What Kind of Nation Penalizes Its Poorest Children?
During Children’s Week, which starts today, we must demand better for kids from our politicians on issues such as the Child Tax Credit, Medicaid, CHIP, and SNAP.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Impacts of the Reduction In Workforce on CDC’s National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (NCIPC) files.constantcontact.com/023aa8ab001/...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
If you are or know of someone whose cancer treatment has been disrupted due to administrative actions, please contact me at diana.fishbein@npscoalition.org.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Please read this first-hand account of what's actually happening at NIH that is traumatizing staff and terminating vital research that supports the public's health. medium.com/@dianafishbe...
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NIH Post-Mortem by a Former NIH Insider: It’s Worse Than You Think [Anonymized]
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research, is under unprecedented assault, not just…
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
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The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster
An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Government can do better! medium.com/@dianafishbe...
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Target Ineffective Programs, Not People, to Save Money
An army of researchers, service providers, physicians, community workers, prevention practitioners, and countless others who serve the…
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
April 17, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
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April 17, 2025
Today, Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) posted a picture of himself with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man whom the Trump administration says it sent to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador t...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Testifying for Children Before a House Committee That, Far Too Often, Ignores Them open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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Testifying for Children Before a House Committee That, Far Too Often, Ignores Them
Last week, I testified before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government to speak about the crisis children in America face and urge Congress to act.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
'How is it possible that you have this job?': RFK Jr. was not aware of the addiction and mental health programs he was cutting. See the first 1 min 30 sec of this clip: www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...
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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
🚨 I have been working with several addiction scientists and clinicians through the Addiction Science Defense Network (www.npscoalition.org/projects/add...) to craft a statement of concern about recent executive orders and actions that can be shared with members of congress.
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Addiction Science Defense Network | npsc
The ASDN is an information exchange and action network for individuals and organizations devoted to studying, treating and preventing problems caused by psychoactive substance use, including alcohol, ...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I'm assisting the HELP Committee with stories of child-or family-focused researchers, grants, clients/patients, or clinical services/programs that were suspended, terminated or otherwise harmed by recent actions. Please contact me: diana.fishbein@npscoalition.org.
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Cassie Boness, PhD @cassie-boness.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
From Alcohol Justice: "After Kennedy’s Destruction at NIH, Alcohol Prevention and Addiction Medicine Must Stand In Solidarity" alcoholjustice.org/blog/kennedy...
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After Kennedy's Destruction at NIH, Alcohol Prevention and Addiction Medicine Must Stand In Solidarity - Alcohol Justice
Kennedy's funding cuts and mass firings at NIH means alcohol prevention, research and recovery--and the entire addiction medicine field--must stand together.
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Scott Delaney @scott-delaney.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up. If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes. Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form
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...
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
How Medicaid Caps Endanger the Lives of Children with Special Health Care Needs open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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How Medicaid Caps Endanger the Lives of Children with Special Health Care Needs
For families of children with disabilities and chronic conditions, Medicaid isn’t just insurance — it’s a lifeline.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Please contact me right away with stories about researchers and patients who have been adversely impacted by firings, disruptions to research, or discontinuation of treatment. diana.fishbein@npscoalition.org. I'm gathering this information for the congressional HELP Committee. Thanks.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
If you are an investigator and have been impacted by recent actions affecting federal funding agencies (e.g., interruption in an ongoing grant, delay in receiving funds, halt or delay in receiving newly approved grant, loss of support staff, break in data collection, etc.), please contact me asap.
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
This article explains what’s happening at NIH www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order
The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.
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reliablesourcesusa.bsky.social @reliablesourcesusa.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 23/02/2025
Making America Sick Again: How Medicaid Caps Will Leave Children Underinsured and Unhealthy open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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Making America Sick Again: How Medicaid Caps Will Leave Children Underinsured and Unhealthy
Children need congressional leaders to step up and protect their health NOW!
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Diana [Denni] Fishbein @docdenni.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Want More Babies, Vice President Vance? Here’s What Needs to Change for Children and Families open.substack.com/pub/bruceles...
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Want More Babies, Vice President Vance? Here’s What Needs to Change for Children and Families
Dear Vice President Vance,
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