Five leading researchers draw from decades of experience studying diabetes, tuberculosis, health equity, and HIV/AIDS to share their unique perspectives on current events.

NHANES has collected data on eating patterns, diabetes, and other common diseases for decades. The CDC team that runs it has been fired.

Staff at the CDC Library were laid off on October 10th and have not been brought back. Sign the petition to call for their return.

**Please write now to your Senators and Representative demanding that ALL CDC employees be reinstated as part of any agreement to reopen the government.** Late on Friday, October 10, the Trump Admin...

Discover the latest tuberculosis policy briefs, research insights, and evidence-based recommendations from the Global TB Caucus. Our Policy and Research page features global TB data, legislative frame...

I spent two decades at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working with some of the world’s leading experts on infectious…

Workers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a “clap-out” to honor three of the agency’s high-ranking officials, who resigned as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tried to fire ...

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“Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

“When influential figures amplify falsehoods, they legitimize the anger that leads to violence,” writes former Surgeon General Jerome Adams.

Donald Trump is a very dangerous man, and I’m going to tell you why: We are not taking him seriously enough.

2025 April Fool’s Day

Doctors and aid workers warn that the freeze to USAID-funded TB programs is likely to cause thousands of unnecessary deaths and a rise in TB infections worldwide, and create the conditions for an extr...

The conversation among the defense secretary and other national security officials on a commercial messaging app mistakenly included the editor in chief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg.

Portraying Tuberculosis through Art

A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

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The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to an agency whistle-blower.

Its architect's daughter has cystic fibrosis—and benefits from a "miracle drug" backed by an agency he's attacking.

1300 probationary workers at the Center for Disease Control are being let go by the Trump administration, threatening public health and science.

More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers.

For more than 60 years, the MMWR has published life-saving information on U.S. public health crises. The Trump administration’s pause on health communications has disrupted that essential mission.

A former Republican director of USAID says the agency is critical to U.S. interests and can’t be abolished or folded into the State Department.

Perception is reality.

Elon Musk reportedly spent $40 million dollars on #Superbowl ads calling #USAID wasteful. Here are just a few ways we would’ve spent $40M: 🏈Purchased life-saving HIV treatment from American pharmaceutical companies to keep 1,060,000 million people alive for one year 🏈Bought enough emergency food aid products made in Rhode Island and Georgia to treat 800,000 severely malnourished children 🏈Slowed the flow of migrants to our borders by providing job training to 50,000 people in Central America 🏈Protected 30,000,000 football fields of tropical forest in Africa, preventing China and Russia from exploiting timber and critical minerals that fuel our world 🏈Saved the lives of 25 million children suffering from severe malaria. We think this one has value on its own but maybe Musk would disagree This Super Bowl Sunday, tell Congress to #saveforeignaid and #standwithUSAID

As aptly stated in a public letter signed by over 700 health professionals and scientists, RFK Jr.’s “unfounded, fringe beliefs could significantly undermine public health practices across the country...

This guide provides an overview of executive orders and other executive actions made by the Trump Administration since January 21, 2025 that directly address or affect U.S. global health efforts. This...