Significant HHS Workforce Reduction and Restructuring Threaten the Nation’s Fight Against Cancer – ACS CAN
American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) shared a post on LinkedIn:
“Today, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced it will be cutting more than 10,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring that will impact operations at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, among other critical agencies. These changes could have dire and long-term consequences in the nation’s fight against cancer.
‘Health is a national security issue, and our nation’s health infrastructure must be protected so that we continue to achieve breakthroughs to increase prevention and reduce death and suffering for people diagnosed with cancer,’ says Dr. Wayne Frederick, interim CEO of the American Cancer Society and ACS CAN.’
‘By letting thousands of health and human services personnel go, decades of institutional knowledge and expertise in the execution of cancer services and programs could be significantly impeded. The cumulative effect of cuts to federal health research funding and to staff at the HHS agencies will put our global leadership and our health at risk.
ACS CAN urges the administration to reconsider the impact of these reductions to critical agencies on the health and wellbeing of people nationwide and our collective fight against cancer.'”
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