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National Public Health Week 2026 Focuses on Action-Oriented Strategies All Communities Can Implement to Achieve Good Health
National Public Health Week (NPHW) 2026 launches April 6-12 with a simple truth: Good Health Doesn’t Just Happen.
APHA and Protect Our Care Analysis highlight how RFK Jr’s health policies affect people of color
A joint analysis released by the American Public Health Association and Protect Our Care sheds light on how cuts to vital health programs and efforts to use disinformation to undermine the effectiveness of vaccines have disproportionately undermined the health of people of color.
Federal Judge Blocks Immunization Schedule Changes, Stays ACIP Member Appointments
Preliminary Injunction stays Secretary Kennedy's pediatric vaccine schedule. Secretary Kennedy's 13 appointments to the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP) are stayed for likely having violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act. All votes taken by the now-stayed ACIP are stayed. "ACIP as currently constituted cannot meet"
APHA and Several Leading Public Health Experts Urge Federal Court to Block HHS Policy Restricting Immigrants’ Access to Essential Health Programs
Amici curiae brief argues July 2025 HHS notice is unlawful, harmful to public health, and economically damaging nationwide