U.S. policymakers use a secret weapon to uncover widespread threats to public health. This tool enabled them to discover that ...

Throughout 2025, the federal government and several state healthcare systems advanced new restrictions on diversity, equity, ...

Lately, coverage and commentary about vaccines have dominated public health news. Reducing public health to vaccines is dangerous. Keeping the public focused on such a narrow, controversial and ...

A new analysis of state public health systems shows Ohio’s has some of the worst funding support in the nation, and that funding could go down even more in the newest state budget. Using 2021 data ...

Dr. Georges Benjamin has seen many infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats in the near-25 years he's led the American Public Health Association, or APHA, a professional group ...

Premier, Inc. — a leading health care improvement company uniting more than 4,350 U.S. hospitals and health systems and approximately 300,000 other providers — partnered with STAT Brand Studio to ...

On his way to being confirmed as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised lawmakers he would do nothing that “makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines.” ...

Yesterday, the Common Health Coalition issued a major report that “analyzes how cuts to public health infrastructure will ripple through the U.S. health care system – leading to sicker patients, ...

This article is part of a Health Affairs Forefront short series, “Meeting America’s Public Health Challenge.” This series includes articles that reflect on and are inspired by a report of the same ...

New law authorizes N.J. to designate a Public Health Institute Health commissioner will chose a nonprofit organization to lead the PHI Move builds on pandemic lessons to modernize health systems There ...