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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Last Chance: Take action NOW to stop Russell Vought from revamping the federal funding landscape.
A recent article by Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker was aptly titled An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like. Most articles about this issue have made it sound like this is about scientific research grants. But...
We need to protect trans kids—during Pride, and always.
San Francisco is wrapping up another fantastic Pride celebration weekend. These days I don’t get so excited about going into the fray for the alcohol-fueled party with hundreds of thousands of jubilant, love-filled revelers in the streets,...
URGENT ACTION: This is a five-alarm fire for science in the United States. This affects YOU.
A quick note from me up front: Today’s post is about a proposed change to U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and regulations. This might sound dry, or boring, or irrelevant to you if you’re not a legislator or a policy wonk. I pro...
Our response to Ebola is not making Americans safer.
On Thursdays, the CDC releases their Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report. It summarizes essential information about current or recent disease outbreaks, environmental health issues, or changes in public health policy. It’s all open access...
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...
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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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