June 30, 2025

Journal of Global, Public and One Health (JGPOH) https://jgpoh.com/volume-2025

Editorial “Everybody’s Health” PDF

“ … The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is the primary federal agency is the main health line of defense and currently led by HHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Under his leadership unfortunately, some of its recent and current policy pronouncements and actions do not well serve its stated mission. The authors, with backgrounds, experience and expertise in public health/epidemiology, respectfully contend that our U.S. public health infrastructure, assiduously crafted over the last many decades (80 plus years) may have been irreparably impaired. As a result, its men, women and children are at greater risk in developing illnesses unnecessarily and will die prematurely for decades to come. And assuredly this is tied in part to harmful health illiteracy (9) repercussions much of which is associated with encouragement of vaccine hesitancy (10).  …”

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