Legal Strategies Countering Federal Public Health Data Purges

2025/01/01 by James G. Hodge
Health Professions · Medicine · #Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations #Public Health Policies and Education #Reproductive Health and Contraception

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/jme.2025.10120

openalex publication_date 2025/01/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21

Abstract

Ongoing efforts among federal agencies to expunge public health data from websites and other media in line with Trump administration directives on "gender ideology" and other themes has led to widespread confusion, angst, and concern among health officials, medical practitioners, and patients. It has also generated legal claims seeking to reverse and stop public health data purges. Framed within statutory or constitutional limits, legal strategies countering these data policies help assure access to core public health information essential to specific services, care, and outcomes.

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