Steven Woolf

It was an honor to spend a day at Northwestern and IPAHM and meet some terrific faculty with a passion to do good work.

Evaluating how the Trump administration will affect health outcomes Discussions about how a government's policies affect health often focus on health ministries or agencies responsible for medical or public health services. This is certainly true in the USA, where con...

My latest editorial, in the Lancet, on how the Trump administration is affecting health outcomes. Understanding the true impact requires a wide-angle lens. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Cuts by the Trump administration hurt the labs that are researching future cures to deadly diseases and the scientists keeping us on the cutting edge of innovation.

Go to ProtectScienceAndInnovation.org and tell Congress to reject these funding cuts.

Opinion | How to Wreck the Nation’s Health, by the Numbers The administration's cuts to the Department of Health and Human Services are going to do irreparable harm to the nation’s health.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/... My latest in the New York Times. An attempt to warn the public that their health is about to get much worse.

A must-read from Jill + @shwoolf.bsky.social 👇

Word on the street is that big layoffs are occurring at HHS today (Friday afternoon), losing a large number at CDC, NIH, etc.

Trump officials ask CDC, FDA to use gender notice on restored websites The Trump administration had directed health agencies to place a notice condemning “gender ideology” on health webpages that had been earlier taken down.

This is ridiculous. These web pages are meant for data and scientific updates. This is not a platform for politicians to spew ideology. Take this elsewhere please and let us concentrate on treating our patients.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

How sad. A serious agency with serious leaders now taken over by ideologues. The scientists at FDA must be demoralized.

George Rust on LinkedIn: For those who are so opposed to DEI, I would ask this -- what are you for?… | 16 comments For those who are so opposed to DEI, I would ask this -- what are you for? * If you are against inclusion, whom are you for excluding? * If you are against… | 16 comments on LinkedIn

www.linkedin.com/posts/george...

Judge orders CDC, FDA to restore websites taken down after Trump gender order U.S. District Judge John D. Bates granted a restraining order temporarily reversing the Trump administration’s moves to remove scientific data.

www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship 'We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles'

Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

Now DOGE is going after our nation's best soirc of data on educational outcomes. I guess American schoolchildren are not a priority.

The White House statement shows its ignorance about what indirects are for.

NIH cuts billions of dollars in biomedical funding, effective immediately The move halts a large slice of money for most universities and research institutions virtually overnight, imperiling vital research in everything from cancer to heart disease.

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School

Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating.

Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating

With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

American chaos: standing up for health and medicine Withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Agreements. USAID shuttered and aid halted, ceasing health programmes globally. A freeze on US$3 trillion worth of federal grants and loans, jeopardising the function...

It should not fall on a British journal to speak out about threats to science in the United States. Leading US medical journals, such as JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, and others should issue a joint statement in defense of scientific independence.

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Censor CDC scientists and ask them to withdraw papers from medical journals?

This is not how it works, Mr President.

Our response @bmj.com on the Trump Executive Order and his "forbidden words"

www.bmj.com/content/388/...

Public Health Journal Won't Be Complicit in Trump Admin's Censorship 'We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles'

THIS ⬇️
"We at the American Journal of Public Health have no interest in following the president's prohibitions on language," APHA's Georges Benjamin tells Medpage Today. "We will publish things under our guidelines, under our ethical principles." www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... 🔥

Thank you @jocalynclark.bsky.social @kamranabbasi.bsky.social @bmj.com for standing up for science, evidence, and public health

Note to other science and health journals: this is what it looks like to show a spine when science is under attack

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ+ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research.

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

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

Just published this morning in JAMA, on how medicine and public health should respond to the new administration. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The CDC web pages for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has gone dark. It provided extensive data on the physical and mental youth, including LGBTQ+ youth. Alarming statistics on the poor mental health of trans youth. It's all gone, at least for now. See yrbs-explorer.services.cdc.gov

The CDC web pages for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has gone dark. It provided extensive data on the physical and mental youth, including LGBTQ+ youth. Alarming statistics on the poor mental health of trans youth. It's all gone, at least for now. See yrbs-explorer.services.cdc.gov

The CDC web pages for the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) has gone dark. It provided extensive data on the physical and mental youth, including LGBTQ+ youth. Alarming statistics on the poor mental health of trans youth. It's all gone, at least for now. See yrbs-explorer.services.cdc.gov

RFK Jr, on 2nd day of testimony, again claims (inexplicably) that there was no treatment for chronic disease when John F Kennedy was present. This is absurd. Does he think doctors in 1960 weren't treating heart disease, cancer, etc? Someone this ignorant has no business being head of HHS. #STOPRFK

It was indeed a disturbing day but glad to have been with you for the experience. Thanks for looking after me.

Literally, let's get anybody else.

Asked how he will make America healthier, RFK says the food supply is problem #1. It's important, but what about tobacco use, physical inactivity, guns, and other leading causes of death. This is environmental lawyer is preoccupied with toxins,l. HHS secy needs a broader understanding of the issue.

RFK incorrectly claims that NIH is preoccupied with infectious diseases (this will come as a surprise to NCI and NHLBI) and "does nothing" to address chronic diseases. This is blatantly false. Anyone who knows anything about NIH would know this. This man is not qualified to be HHS secy.

RFK Jr just intimated that smokers don't have a right to health care. Health is a human right. #stoprfk