It was an honor to spend a day at Northwestern and IPAHM and meet some terrific faculty with a passion to do good work.

My latest editorial, in the Lancet, on how the Trump administration is affecting health outcomes. Understanding the true impact requires a wide-angle lens. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cuts by the Trump administration hurt the labs that are researching future cures to deadly diseases and the scientists keeping us on the cutting edge of innovation. Go to ProtectScienceAndInnovation.org and tell Congress to reject these funding cuts.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My latest in the New York Times. An attempt to warn the public that their health is about to get much worse.

A must-read from Jill + @shwoolf.bsky.social 👇

Word on the street is that big layoffs are occurring at HHS today (Friday afternoon), losing a large number at CDC, NIH, etc.

This is ridiculous. These web pages are meant for data and scientific updates. This is not a platform for politicians to spew ideology. Take this elsewhere please and let us concentrate on treating our patients. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

How sad. A serious agency with serious leaders now taken over by ideologues. The scientists at FDA must be demoralized.

Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Now DOGE is going after our nation's best soirc of data on educational outcomes. I guess American schoolchildren are not a priority.

The White House statement shows its ignorance about what indirects are for.

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating. Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

It should not fall on a British journal to speak out about threats to science in the United States. Leading US medical journals, such as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and others should issue a joint statement in defense of scientific independence. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals? This is not how it works, Mr President. Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words" www.bmj.com/content/388/...

THIS ⬇️ "We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," APHA's Georges Benjamin tells Medpage Today. "We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... 🔥

Thank you @jocalynclark.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @bmj.com for standing up for science, evidence, and public health Note to other science and health journals: this is what it looks like to show a spine when science is under attack

Just published this morning in JAMA, on how medicine and public health should respond to the new administration. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The CDC web pages for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has gone dark. It provided extensive data on the physical and mental youth, including LGBTQ+ youth. Alarming statistics on the poor mental health of trans youth. It's all gone, at least for now. See yrbs-explorer.services.cdc.gov

RFK Jr, on 2nd day of testimony, again claims (inexplicably) that there was no treatment for chronic disease when John F Kennedy was present. This is absurd. Does he think doctors in 1960 weren't treating heart disease, cancer, etc? Someone this ignorant has no business being head of HHS. #STOPRFK

Literally, let's get anybody else.

Asked how he will make America healthier, RFK says the food supply is problem #1. It's important, but what about tobacco use, physical inactivity, guns, and other leading causes of death. This is environmental lawyer is preoccupied with toxins,l. HHS secy needs a broader understanding of the issue.

RFK incorrectly claims that NIH is preoccupied with infectious diseases (this will come as a surprise to NCI and NHLBI) and "does nothing" to address chronic diseases. This is blatantly false. Anyone who knows anything about NIH would know this. This man is not qualified to be HHS secy.

RFK Jr just intimated that smokers don't have a right to health care. Health is a human right. #stoprfk

RFK testifies that the increase in diabetes is due to environmental toxins. This is not evidence based. A hammer thinks everything is a nail. #stoprfk

At his confirmation, RFK correctly notes the high US mortality rate at the height of the COVID pandemic, but he blames chronic disease. This from the man who opposed COVID vaccination. It was the low vaccination rates in the US that fueled mortality. #stoprfk

When asked his position on negotiating drug prices, RFK obfuscates by saying Trump asked him to end chronic diseases. #stoprfk

Under questioning at his confirmation hearing, says he doesn't know the EMTALA law (passed in 1986) or his powers over this at HHS.

RFK testifies that it is "immoral" to not let patients report adverse events. It is false that patients cannot do this. The systems to do this have existed for decades. #stoprfk

At the hearing, Republican senators applaud RFK for wanting to make NIH research the "gold standard." What precisely would he change in research methods to fulfill his vision of gold standard research? I suspect this is less about research integrity than ideology. #stoprfk

RFK Jr implies that physicians are not reporting adverse events. Where has he been for the past few decades? He is either ignorant of the extensive longstanding federal, state, and private sector reporting systems...or obfuscating. #stoprfk

RFK Jr just confused community health centers with "Indian" health centers. I guess he doesn't know what CHCs are. His testimony also shows ignorance about the freeze issued on Monday. This man is not qualified to run HHS. #stoprfk

Insurance companies love the profits they are making from Medicare Advantage. RFK Jr testifies that he wants more Americans to switch to MA. The research shows poorer outcomes with MA. #stoprfk

RFK Jr claims, without evidence, that expanding Medicaid has shortchanged the poor. On what data does he base this claim? The evidence is extensive that Medicaid expansion has saved lives. His plan to shrink Medicaid would cost lives. #stoprfk

RFK Jr testifies that a NIH study showed that COVID targets Black people and "spares Ashkenazi Jews." What is the journal citation for this study? This man peddles in junk science. #stoprfk

RFK Jr testifies that Lyme disease is a militarily engineered bioweapon. #stoprfk

He just called GME an HHS "program." The man is ignorant. He has no training in medicine or public health and it is showing at this hearing. #stoprfk

RFK Jr is right when he warns about chronic diseases. But those of us who have spent our careers studying this issue understand the many causes. Food additives, his obsession, are unhealthy but not the major driver of the US chronic disease burden. An HHS secy should know better. #stoprfk

I'm in the hearing room as RFK Jr testifies at his confirmation hearing. His policies are a threat to public health. I will try to fact check his statements and answers as he speaks. #stoprfk

One overlooked part of RFK Jr’s bid to be HHS secretary — what would he do with the agency’s *Human* services? RFK Jr derided Trump’s first immigration policy as cruel. But as a presidential candidate, he embraced some of Trump’s border ideas. And if confirmed, RFK Jr could help implement them.

I’ll be at the Senate today sharing insights from the RFK Jr hearing. Follow along with me, @jillrose.bsky.social, and @marquishajohns.bsky.social.

What does this mean for states? Researchers in every state and nearly every congressional district receive NIH funding. In FY24, this totaled almost $40 billion. Here’s how that nets out state-by-state:

It’s been a week since Trump’s pause on HHS communications and, despite some clarifications, new NIH research funding is still at a standstill. With the freeze on external communications expected to last until Feb. 1, how might this impact funding? 🧵 ⬇️