Health Policy

As federal vaccine guidance shifts, public health funding faces uncertainty, and a measles outbreak grows in S.C., Georgia’s public health oversight board hasn't met since September.

Community health worker licensing and addiction and recovery services also on the agenda for the the state legislative session that begins Monday.

The past year has been chaotic for public health, but here's a roundup of some noteworthy accomplishments.

Helen Arteaga Landaverde rose to CEO of Elmhurst hospital after founding a family health center. She's also a Covid survivor.

A UN-WHO scientific risk assessment is launched as U.S. regulators struggle to find the source of ByHeart botulism contamination.

Public health officials say the new guidance puts the onus on parents to research and understand each childhood vaccine and why it is important.

As part of her upcoming State of the State, Gov. Kathy Hochul wants to expand the Teen Mental Health First Aid course to 10th graders across New York.

Infant botulism outbreak linked to ByHeart formula prompts warnings to major retailers, calls for tougher regulation.

After a senior FDA official claimed that Covid vaccines had caused the deaths of “at least 10 children,” 12 former FDA commissioners released a warning that the claims and policy changes pose “a threat to evidence-based vaccine policy and public health security.”

About 190,000 fewer Georgians signed up for Affordable Care Act coverage this year as higher premiums take effect, raising concerns about rising uninsured rates and pressure on public health clinics and hospitals.

Healthbeat asked 10 of the nation's largest maternity hospitals and systems that deliver the most babies about their policies for giving hepatitis B vaccines at birth and whether they are changing. Most wouldn't answer.

New York City's mayor-elect has said little about his plans for the health department. A team of advisers includes former commissioners, hospital executives, and experts from academia.

‘They get to reintroduce public health to America,’ says former assistant surgeon general as he shares insights on his students, outbreaks and the crisis at CDC.

A new Emory survey finds that Georgia parents continue to trust routine childhood vaccines — including the newborn hepatitis B shot — even as shifting federal guidance fuels confusion.

The Supreme Court wants a lower court to take a second look at New York’s school vaccine mandate in light of the Mahmoud decision. New York is among several states that removed religious exemptions in the face of disease outbreaks.

Many clinicians and epidemiologists fear abandoning the universal birth dose of the hepatitis B vaccine could reverse three decades of progress toward eliminating a disease that still infects as many as 2.4 million Americans and kills tens of thousands each year.

With subsidies ending Dec. 31, thousands may risk going without health insurance, which could raise costs for everyone, analysts said.

In 2026, the question facing governors, mayors, and local health officials is glaring: What can be done now to protect public health if the federal government will not?

Marco Rubio praises the ‘America First’ agreement as a new approach. How old challenges play out remains to be seen.

HIV physician John Weiser talks about why complying with President Donald Trump’s orders to erase transgender people is bad for science and society. And he notes that acquiescing didn’t spare the CDC from further harm.