The Trump administration will reportedly fire thousands of federal employees working in public health and science agencies on Friday as part of its effort to shrink the size of government. The latest cuts will affect about 5,

As many as 1,300 probationary employees at CDC and 1,500 at NIH are losing their jobs. Many fear for the future of public health and scientific research.

The Trump administration’s effort to remake the federal workforce swept through US healthcare agencies on Friday, with wide cuts planned across several major health organizations and hints of more to come.

The Texas Department of State Health Services canceled its biennial immunization conference amid uncertainty over the ability of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention personnel to participate in the event.

The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the Trump administration's Health and Human Services Secretary with a vote of 52 to 48.Kennedy will oversee about 80,000 employees with agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),

Cars honked in support of the CDC as they drove down Clifton Road, and protestors’ chants and cheers were deafening. Emory University could be especially affected by NIH changes, as the University ranked among the top receivers of federal funding in 2023,

Dengue is transmitted via infected Aedes mosquitoes and sickens as many as 400 million people each year, primarily in tropical and subtropical parts of the world, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Almost half of the probationary workers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others at the National Institutes of Health are being forced out as President Donald Trump overhauls government agencies,

Tom Frieden says cuts to the public health workforce aren’t the way to make America healthier. The Trump administration’s recent decision to purge hundreds of federal health workers from some of the nation’s key federal health agencies is raising concerns among experts who feel the move could make the U.

Beginning with the removal of websites and key public health datasets in January 2025, the Trump administration has taken actions to dismantle established public health infrastructure as part of its second-term agenda.

Staffing reductions across U.S. federal health agencies—including the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA),

Department of Health and Human Services officials expected most of the agency’s roughly 5,200 probationary employees to be fired.