The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is set to furlough 41% of its workforce if Congress doesn't prevent a ...

The U.S. government is nearing a partial shutdown, with a range of effects on public services and the broader economy.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services plans to furlough 41% of its workforce if Congress fails to prevent a ...

Public health is what a nation does together as a society to create and ensure the conditions in which everyone can be healthy. 1 Periodically, circumstances call for a dramatic shift in the ways in ...

Public health is a realm of science and fact and deals in matters of life and death. The pandemic brought misinformation about health to new levels, fostering lingering distrust of public health ...

DEKALB COUNTY, Ga. — After employees at DeKalb Public Health, including the Chief Operating Officer, were unable to be paid due to a technology outage, paychecks are expected to arrive Friday.

Public health experts fear critical programmes for disease prevention and detection could be lost or downgraded with looming budget cuts at the National Public Health Service. A document leaked to RNZ ...

In 1976, I was a high school student eating breakfast with my father when news broke that the CDC had solved the Legionella mystery by discovering a new microbe. My father, a quiet, thoughtful ...

Public health preparedness and response is a critical area of focus as Defense Public Health transitions some of the military component public health functions to the Defense Health Agency. This ...

At long last, National Institutes of Health (NIH) principal deputy director Lawrence Tabak admitted to Congress Thursday that US taxpayers funded gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Covid-19 was a severe test for our public health system. It laid bare many challenges and ...