California Gov. Gavin Newsom has positioned himself as a national public health leader by staking out science-backed policies ...

A federal judge in Illinois quickly issued a restraining order after the Trump administration slashed more than $600 million ...

Public health experts and former federal staffers are uneasy over National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Jay ...

Those polled were more confident in public health messaging from career scientists and medical associations than from federal leaders like Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

In government, the practice is generally known as “dual-hatting,” which is when one official takes on the responsibilities of more than one job simultaneously. Donald Trump has embraced the tactic ...

The director of the National Institutes of Health is also taking over as acting head of the Centers for Disease Control and ...

The new findings come after the Trump administration in January took the unprecedented step of overhauling the CDC’s routine childhood immunization schedule.

Kennedy Jr. has worked hard to villainize infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci, even writing a conspiracy-laden book lambasting the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and ...

Jay Bhattacharya has been tapped to run the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—after spending years criticizing its pandemic response. Bhattacharya will continue his role as the director of ...

Last month, Governor Newsom announced that California became the first state to join the World Health Organization (WHO)’s Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN), strengthening public health ...

Morning Report is The Hill’s a.m. newsletter. Subscribe here. In today’s issue: ▪ Trump puts pressure on Thune ▪ Iran chooses new supreme leader ▪ Trust in public health institutions drops ▪ Officials ...

OMB Director Russell Vought (center, behind President Trump) is the lead defendant in a lawsuit brought by four state attorneys general over more than $600 million in cuts to CDC grants announced this ...