Health Policy

One thing experts from a wide range of fields, from basic science to public health, agree on: The damage will be varied and immense.

Public health experts and advocates say that Health and Human Services regional offices, like the one in New York City, form the connective tissue between the federal government and locally based services.

Shoring up the city’s vaccination capacity, creating an infectious disease dashboard, and expanding restaurant inspections could help protect residents’ health, NYC Council member Lincoln Restler says in an interview.

A look into how public health labs have served as a backbone of the system, the urgency of recent funding cuts, and the consequences for public safety.

For decades, these clinics have provided a wide range of health care to students, offering vaccines, teeth cleaning, or help for mental health struggles, all at no cost.

In many cases, this money flowed to addiction recovery services, which go beyond traditional treatment to help people with substance use disorders rebuild their lives.

In the state, Black women are at least three times as likely as white women to die from pregnancy-related causes. The county's initiatives aimed at reducing racial disparities work but depend on federal dollars — money that might not flow amid budget cuts and a push to end DEI programs.

The federal government is pursuing potentially steeper cuts to health agencies, with a proposed $40 billion reduction for the budget of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Federal staff cuts and delayed funding limit access to the Home Energy Assistance Program, which helps over a million people across the state pay bills and get air conditioning units.

Health commissioner says disparities in dental care will put children living in poverty at risk.

We have more effective tools for HIV prevention than ever before. But the Trump administration’s sweeping cuts to the programs that deliver them could squander an historic opportunity to end the epidemic.

Five of 10 HIV branches have been eliminated by last week’s massive cuts at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

For many small organizations, the federal grants were a rare opportunity to invest in local public health initiatives.

Preventing and detecting bird flu infections among farmworkers is a key defense against a potential pandemic. Immigration raids and threats have undermined these efforts, researchers say.

Immunization efforts across the country were upended after the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention abruptly canceled $11.4 billion in Covid-related funds for state and local health departments in late March.

The state passed a budget that includes expanding home health care visits for pregnancies, new parents, and newborns.

The administration slashed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, firing roughly half of its remaining employees as part of a perplexing reorganization of the federal Health and Human Services Department.

New York state is reeling from more than $360 million in cuts to public health, while NYC faces a more than $100 million loss.

The Cobb and Douglas Public Health Department director said the agency would lose nearly $500,000 from federal cuts.

The Department of Health and Human Services abruptly terminated grants that supported infectious disease prevention and surveillance work in New York City.