What in the Health?!
Shelley N. Facente, PhD, MPHFearless, funny, and expertly vetted updates on what is happening to public health in the US—the good, the bad, and the (lots of) ugly—since Inauguration Day 2025.
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The cost of military spending.
By April 29 of this year, the United States government had spent $25 billion on the war with Iran. To put that into perspective, in the two months after “Operation Epic Fury” began on February 28, more money was spent on Trump’s temper tant...
Whiplash.
If you are anything like me, these days you wake up and think “What in the world happened while I was sleeping? Is the Strait of Hormuz open today? Or closed?” This is even more true if you live in California like I do, since the east coast...
Is the Tide Turning? We May Have a New CDC Director
Big news yesterday, as the Trump administration announced a new nomination for CDC Director, who now will have to be confirmed by the Senate. Unlike a few recent confirmation hearings (Casey Means for Surgeon General? cough cough) this is e...
Resist!
Yesterday I attended San Francisco’s version of the 3rd No Kings march since Trump took office for his second run at remaking the United States in his vision (as if we can give him credit for the vision…which I’m pretty sure we can’t). It w...
2026 has been a doozy so far!
Hi all. You may have noticed I haven’t posted much in a while.
That’s not because there has been nothing to post. I’ve just been SO busy with work that I’ve been struggling to find the time. Since January 5 I’ve been to Atlanta, Tucson, Oc...
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I have a Master of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from UC Berkeley, am faculty at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and have been a busy public health consultant for the last 15 years, working to improve health equity everywhere.
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