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Jan 27, 2025, 09:18

Gregg Margolis: Top Three Health Policy Articles

Gregg Margolis, Director of Health Policy Fellowships and Leadership Programs at the National Academy of Medicine, shared a post on LinkedIn:

“It has been a very busy week in Washington DC with many implications for the health of the nation. Below are my ‘top three’ articles, and you can take a deeper dive by going here.

The New York Times:

Trump Withdraws U.S. From World Health Organization President Trump moved quickly on Monday to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization, a move that public health experts say will undermine the nation’s standing as a global health leader and make it harder to fight the next pandemic.

In an executive order issued about eight hours after he took the oath of office, Mr. Trump cited a string of reasons for the withdrawal, including the W.H.O.’s ‘mishandling of the COVID-19 pandemic,’ and the ‘failure to adopt urgently needed reforms.’ (Gay Stolberg, 1/20)

Modern Healthcare:

RFK Jr. Confirmation Hearing Date Set For Jan. 29 The controversial nomination of Robert Kennedy Jr. to be secretary of Health and Human Services is set to move forward next week when he will face questioning from a pair of Senate committees.

Kennedy is among the least-certain of President Donald Trump’s nominees to be confirmed. Democrats, who cannot block Kennedy on their own, are expected to largely but not unanimously oppose him, and some Republicans have expressed concerns about Kennedy’s views on vaccines and his past support for abortion rights. (McAuliff, 1/23)

The Washington Post:

Trump Officials Pause Health Agencies’ Communications, Citing Review The Trump administration has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, according to nearly a dozen current and former officials and other people familiar with the matter.

The instructions were delivered Tuesday to staff at agencies inside the Department of Health and Human Services, including officials at the Food and Drug Administration, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health, one day after the new administration took office. (Sun, Diamond and Roubein, 1/22).”

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