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Next Week in Public Health, October 9th.

The government is still shut down in the US. Congress is deadlocked over whether to extend enhanced health insurance subsidies, with Democrats pushing for immediate action before open enrollment begins on Nov. 1 and Republicans insisting that negotiations can wait until the government reopens. Insurance commissioners from both parties warn that delaying will cause chaos: […]

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Next Week in Public Health, October 2, 2025

We’re switching things up a bit and moving this blog to Thursday. Sort of works better for us on our end. For all you peeps impacted by the shutdown, stay strong. Here’s the research we’ve been tracking. And what’s in the news Single-dose psilocybin rapidly and sustainably relieves allodynia and anxiodepressive-like behaviors in mouse models […]

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Quick Sunday update, 9/28/25

Hi all, Coming to you from a soccer field early Sunday morning. I’m asking you to follow us on Facebook. You may skeptically ask, “Why?” Well, we all know Twitter is a cesspool, and Bluesky, bless its heart, is a bit of a science-positive echo chamber. The people we need need to reach still are […]

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Next Week in Public Health, September 26, 2025

Everyone stockpiling their Tylenol? Actually, I don’t mind research. I don’t mind replication studies. Scientists should NOT be afraid of testing linkage and relationships and causation over and over and over again. Science can and should take all comers. What I do mind is when the government pretends that people have not been studying this […]

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Chaos at CDC: RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Admits It Has No Data

At a chaotic meeting this week, the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), now led by members handpicked by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., struggled through votes on critical childhood vaccines and ultimately punted on a major change after acknowledging they lacked data. On day one, the panel voted to revoke its recommendation for the […]

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Next Week in Public Health, September 19, 2025

We’ve been working on mapping relationships within HHS leadership (I forget if I mentioned this last week), but we still have some work to do. As with everything, we’re trying to juggle the different motives: financial, ideological, or personal. Oh, maybe, just maybe, public help should be opposed to fascism. We gently explain why here: […]

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After the Kirk Killing: Public Health, Justice, and Politicizing Violence

In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, senior officials like JD Vance framed the tragedy as proof of a coordinated “left-wing domestic terror movement,” vowing sweeping crackdowns on nonprofits and activists. To be clear: Investigators have not established a motive, yet the rhetoric has raced ahead of the facts, turning a criminal investigation into a […]

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Next Week in Public Health, September 12, 2025

It’s been a little too quiet this week on the policy front, but I suppose we should be grateful for that. Here’s what’s in the research. We are working on a project involving Lil Sis to help understand the special interests driving these policy changes, so we can hopefully have that done soonish. And we we can […]

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Next Week in Public Health, September 5, 2025

Yesterday was gruesome, no doubt about it. This particular White House statement on RFK grew my particular ire (and relevant to this site) The phrase, “Gold Standard Science,” is doing some heavy lifting there. What defines the gold standard? I assume there aren’t many methodologists in the White House, so is he saying we should […]

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Next Week in Public Health, August 29, 2025

What a shitty, shitty week. Mandy had a couple of blogs about it here: And also, if we try to forecast out what the next few years might be like, we have some thoughts. If you can still stomach the news, here’s what’s been in it. Determinants of vaccine hesitancy among healthcare workers in an […]

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Next Week in Public Health, August 22, 2025

Hello. That’s it. I don’t have much interesting commentary this week. I did learn a new word, though — presenteeism. Check out some of the latest research on presenteesism below. And what’s going on in the news How the pandemic shaped presenteeism trends between healthcare and non-healthcare workers using the Korean working conditions surveys (2010 […]

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Next Week in Public Health, August 15, 2025

I know we didn’t pay enough attention to the shooting at the CDC last week. I could blame the firehouse of insanity, the bizarre lack of media coverage of this event, the general shrugs that accompany mass shootings, or the fact that I was in a daze working on a project. I don’t know. So […]

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