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See what APHA has to say about key public health policy issues.

For Our Health warns the proposed HHS budget cuts put Americans at risk

For Our Health, a nonpartisan public health advocacy initiative, strongly opposes the Administration’s proposed 2026 budget cuts that would devastate the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). While the Trump Administration’s decision to restore funding for the National Institute for Health’s Women's Health Initiative is a necessary correction to a harmful mistake, it does nothing to change the catastrophic reality of the broader 2026 budget proposal that puts the health and well-being of Americans at risk.

Secretary Kennedy and his policies are a danger to the public’s health

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.

APHA, Public Service Unions, Small Business, Veterans and Conservation Organizations and Rule of Law Advocates Vow to Continue Fight

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...

Researchers Challenge NIH's Politically Driven Grant Cancellations

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.