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Can America’s Public Health System Survive the Next 3.5 Years?

August 28, 2025 · 5 min read

Recent leadership upheavals, budget cuts, and shrinking programs are reshaping the nation’s approach to preparing for health crises and managing chronic diseases. The next few years will depend heavily on politics, funding, and the balance between federal and state roles. The Current Trajectory (2025–2027) 1. A smaller, more politicized federal center. The removal of CDC […]

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Environment

Unsafe Tap Water is not-so-Quietly Harming America’s Health

If you turned on your kitchen tap right now, would you be sure the water is safe? For millions of Americans, the answer is more uncertain than you’d think. A new study published in Frontiers in Public Health shows that even a single Safe Drinking Water Act violation in a county can ripple through communities’ […]

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News

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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Funding

Can America’s Public Health System Survive the Next 3.5 Years?

Recent leadership upheavals, budget cuts, and shrinking programs are reshaping the nation’s approach to preparing for health crises and managing chronic diseases. The next few years will depend heavily on politics, funding, and the balance between federal and state roles. The Current Trajectory (2025–2027) 1. A smaller, more politicized federal center. The removal of CDC […]

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Nutrition

55% Higher Liver Disease Risk from Fast Food Diets

For millions of people, the answer to “What’s for dinner?” comes in a paper bag, passed through a drive-thru window. It’s quick, cheap, and tasty. But according to new research, that convenience may come with a serious cost to your liver. A sweeping meta-analysis, pooling data from over 169,000 people across nine studies, found that […]

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Uncategorized

Why a 3x Smoking Risk Still Looks Like a Decline

Picture a chart: vaping among teens climbing sharply, while smoking drops. To the casual observer—or even to a policymaker under pressure—it might look like good news. Maybe vaping is helping young people quit cigarettes, or keeping them from starting at all. That’s the “displacement effect” story, and it’s a tempting one. But according to new […]

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Funding

New Study Reveals 3 Keys to Smarter Health Care Dashboards

What does a kidney transplant really cost—not just to the hospital, but to the patient living through it? For most clinicians, managers, and even patients, the answer has remained surprisingly murky. While health systems worldwide race to implement value-based health care (VBHC), an approach that defines value as outcomes relative to cost, one piece of […]

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Developmental disorders

Did Aluminum in Vaccines Harm Kids? The Largest Study Says No

The Annals of Medicine recently rejected a call to retract a Danish cohort study that did not find increased health risks among 1.2 million children exposed to aluminum in vaccines. The journal’s editor-in-chief explained that while the study has limitations (as every study does) its findings remain valid. And importantly, dismissing peer-reviewed evidence without reason […]

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News

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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