The field’s failure to integrate medical services in the mid-20th century set the stage for its current troubles
Public health is a dynamic and rewarding field dedicated to improving the health and well-being of communities and populations. Unlike clinical healthcare, which focuses on treating individual patients,
Slashing tuberculosis aid could endanger millions of lives abroad, health authorities say, with potential consequences for the U.S., where TB cases have also been rising.
Recent policy directives from the White House seek to compel actions that are contrary to widely accepted standards of ethical public health practice.
A relatively sedate Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing for National Institutes of Health Director-nominee Dr. Jay Bhattacharya revealed his five goals to improve people's health.
Dr. Mary T. Bassett speaks to Bianna Golodryga about health funding freezes and response to measles outbreaks by the Trump administration
The Director of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Dr Jarbas Barbosa, has underscored the need to address public health challenges in Latin America and the Caribbean. In addressing the inauguration of the Mexican National Institute the Public Health’s (INSP) 20th Public Health Research Congress 2025,
The standard public health approach in a measles outbreak is a full-throated appeal for vaccinations. RFK Jr. is working from a different playbook.
In Arizona - a Medicaid expansion state and home to roughly 34,000 federal employees - President Donald Trump’s orders and actions are impacting the public health sector, affecting jobs, medical research,
For the second time in five years, some doctors in southwestern Ontario are encountering a virus they've never treated before.
Experts are anticipating potential impacts on the public health sector after recent changes in funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).