From the fight against Malaria to USAID funding cuts to new vaccine policies-how do all these changes impact public health?

Public health in America is undergoing dramatic changes, from changing access to vaccines to defunding research into treatment and prevention of diseases. This is all the work of the second Trump administration, more specifically, the leadership of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior and it’s having effects beyond America.

In recent years, the U.S. has played a major role in battling malaria, providing more than a billion dollars annually to fight it. That is, until this year, when the Trump administration froze foreign aid.

The effects of that are covered in a recent article from the publication Science. Public health experts weigh in on that and the broader changes in public health in America.

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Regina Rabinovich
Former Head, Infectious Diseases, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Jennifer Nuzzo 
Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center, Brown University School of Public Health