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American Public Health Association and Project UNITY announce partnership to empower future public health leaders
The American Public Health Association is pleased to partner with Project UNITY and its flagship program, Catalyst Academy, as a recognized youth public health education initiative aligned with APHA's foundational mission of championing optimal, equitable health and well-being for all.
National Public Health Week 2026 Focuses on Action-Oriented Strategies All Communities Can Implement to Achieve Good Health
National Public Health Week (NPHW) 2026 launches April 6-12 with a simple truth: Good Health Doesn’t Just Happen.
APHA and Protect Our Care Analysis highlight how RFK Jr’s health policies affect people of color
A joint analysis released by the American Public Health Association and Protect Our Care sheds light on how cuts to vital health programs and efforts to use disinformation to undermine the effectiveness of vaccines have disproportionately undermined the health of people of color.
Federal Judge Blocks Immunization Schedule Changes, Stays ACIP Member Appointments
Preliminary Injunction stays Secretary Kennedy's pediatric vaccine schedule. Secretary Kennedy's 13 appointments to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) are stayed for likely having violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act. All votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP are stayed. "ACIP as currently constituted cannot meet"
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Q&A with NAACP: Addressing the growing environmental harms of AI data centers
Abre’ Conner, JD, director of the NAACP Center for Environmental and Climate Justice, spoke to The Nation’s Health about the health harms of AI data centers and how public health professionals can work to protect communities from harm.
Local organizations using partnerships to protect health, environment
Simple but targeted actions can make a big difference in protecting people from environmental health harms.
Op-ed: Children shouldn’t have to defend themselves from climate change
Earlier this month, the federal government announced the repeal of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, the 2009 scientific determination that carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases threaten public health.
One year in, RFK Jr.'s leadership has endangered public health, report says
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s anti-science agenda has been “a wrecking ball” for U.S. public health that endangers American lives, according to a new review of his first year in federal office.
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