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The recent massive reductions in staff at key health agencies including the CDC, FDA and HRSA, among others, along with acknowledgement since that many of these people shouldn’t have been fired, is the latest example of poor and thoughtless management that will undermine the work of our nation’s top public health agencies.
In response to today’s ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court granting the government’s request for a stay of the preliminary injunction against the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) blocking the firings of thousands of federal workers, the coalition of plaintiffs and co-counsel in the case released the following statement...
APHA and other organizations filed a lawsuit challenging the abrupt cancellation of research grants by the NIH, the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
Statement from APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD on proposed HHS layoffs
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