How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?

2025/01/31 by Steven H. Woolf · 1 voice
Business, Management and Accounting · #Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology

paper · doi:10.1001/jama.2025.1218

openalex publication_date 2025/01/31 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.

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Discussions

• This viewpoint written from a US context applies equally in any country - and some countries, including the UK, have politicians and political parties that propose policies contrary to substantial evi [bsky, 0 points, 0 comments]

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