Defend Public Health

We are all public health! Join us on Public Health Thank You Day today in expressing our collective gratitude & commitment to supporting the public health workforce and their tireless efforts to protect and improve health. #PublicHealthHeroes #PHTYD

Even Bernie Sanders?

Tonight was a very bad night.

#2025apha | Jordan-Lindsay M. #2025APHA Rep Justin Jones speech is giving me life!!!!!

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I am having a huge public health high right now!
#ifyouknowyouknow #apha2025

This is the power of justice, access and inclusion. We all benefit when we all support each other.

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Image of a text box titled "Ten Great Public Health Achievements — United States, 1900–1999." The list includes: Vaccination Motor-vehicle safety Safer workplaces Control of infectious diseases Decline in deaths from coronary heart disease and stroke Safer and healthier foods Healthier mothers and babies Family planning Fluoridation of drinking water Recognition of tobacco use as a health hazard

CDC once published this list: Top 10 Public Health Achievements of the 20th Century.

Vaccination. Flouridation of drinking water. Healthier moms and babies.
Glad to see we’re… chipping away at it?

What’s next — bringing back smoking in the office?🚬

cdc.gov/mmwr//PDF/wk/mm4850.pdf
#CDCsaveslives

Judge deems Trump's cuts to National Institutes of Health illegal U.S. District Judge William Young said the NIH violated federal law by arbitrarily canceling more than $1 billion in research grants because of their perceived connection to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.

BREAKING: A federal judge says the termination of NIH grants for research on diversity-related topics by President Trump's administration was “void and illegal,” and accused the government of discriminating against racial minorities and LGBT people.

#SpeakForHealth excited to attend my second Policy Action Institute #advocacy #healthequity

Period products aren’t a luxury, they're an essential. However, millions of Americans still have trouble accessing them & that’s unacceptable.

I introduced my #ME4All Act to end period poverty.

What is period poverty? Watch & learn more👇

Image of library book display labeled:

“It's A Warning Not An Instruction Manual.”

Books on display:
• On Tyranny
• Twenty Lessons From
The 21st Century
• 1984
• A Handmaids Tale
• Diary of Anne Frank
• Parable of The Sower
• Fahrenheit 451
• Animal Farm
• Brave New World

~TAiLS of a Bookworm

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Wisconsin folks: please, I am begging y’all to go vote today. Don’t assume this race is won. Every vote is gonna matter. We need EVERYONE to go cast a ballot for Susan Crawford.

Polls close at 8pm.

Go here to find out where you’re supposed to vote: myvote.wi.gov/en-us/Find-M...

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Same great experience with host site. Lots of networking. I quit my full time benefit job to do AmeriCorps. My dad thought I was crazy. It was hard financially so I only did one year and got my dream job before my AmeriCorps year was up ❤️

I am sorry that was your experience. It was the best thing ever for my public health career.

Appeals court rejects Trump administration bid to reinstate funding freeze The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department's request to pause a judge's order while it challenges the order in court.

BREAKING: Appeals court rejects the Trump administration's bid to immediately reinstate a massive federal funding freeze.

The hardest part about public health is that when we succeed, there's no crisis, no epidemic. People carry on with daily life, unaware of a near-miss. We may never know how bad it could have been - because our public health workforce is always taking action to avoid, prevent, and control threats.

This should not have the words public health attached.

I get the Biden response but the Trump response seems like finding any answers to rebuttal voters for Harris "I told you so"

Donald Trump is not dismantling the government for YOUR best interests.

He’s dismantling the government for himself and his billionaire cronies.

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

The cognitive dissonance of getting up every morning and making coffee and walking the dog and going to meetings and answering emails and wondering what to make for dinner while there is a real live actual coup d’etat happening is BONKERS

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

Here's the deal. Trump and his people are counting on our fatigue and on overwhelming us, so pick a few things that piss you off THE MOST and focus on what you can do to help those things. Pace yourself.

It was just swept under the rug in the name of peace. I have a feeling during the next administration (if we have one) the same thing will happen. 3/3

Part of me is feeling the country has been living in la la land since the civil rights movement and to go even further back never corrected the impact/result of the civil war. 2/3

How do you know when a policy or a culture move is transactional? When it is easy to fall back into familiar chaos. Real work requires transformative shifts, a sustainable shift, a new normal, and this can only happen with relational trust. This is heavy on my mind this morning. 1/3 #democracy

MAGA will never learn that racism costs money.