From partnerships to grassroots leadership, five lessons from 2025 show how public health is evolving—and what matters most heading into 2026.

Public health departments depend on accurate and timely data to guide their efforts to control the spread of disease. Full integration of information technology is the norm for other essential data ...

A new analysis of state public health systems shows Ohio’s has some of the worst funding support in the nation, and that funding could go down even more in the newest state budget. Using 2021 data ...

In her recent Academic Public Health Perspectives article, “Artificial Intelligence and Public Health: A Moment That Demands Leadership,” Dr. Laura Magaña, ASPPH’s President and CEO, makes clear that ...

Blackstock is a former computer scientist, physician, researcher, and public health and health equity leader. Fatou, M.S.W., is a disability justice advocate, strategist, and founder and CEO of ...

On his way to being confirmed as the nation’s top health official, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised lawmakers he would do nothing that “makes it difficult or discourages people from taking vaccines.” ...

Dr. Georges Benjamin has seen many infectious disease outbreaks and bioterrorism threats in the near-25 years he's led the American Public Health Association, or APHA, a professional group ...

Measles is revealing fractures in our public health system and insurance disparities. Each case costs almost $250,000.

This week’s Senate Finance Committee hearing was supposed to be about oversight, to ask the tough but necessary questions on how a federal agency is moving toward its authorized mandate. Instead, it ...

New law authorizes N.J. to designate a Public Health Institute Health commissioner will chose a nonprofit organization to lead the PHI Move builds on pandemic lessons to modernize health systems There ...