NPR

Some Public Health Service officers deployed in detention centers suffer 'moral distress'

In 2025, as immigrant arrests by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement soared, so did the demand for health care providers to staff hastily constructed detention centers. One group tapped to meet ...
Wired

Public Health Workers Are Quitting Over Assignments to Guantánamo

Rebekah Stewart, a nurse at the US Public Health Service, got a call last April that brought her to tears. She had been selected for deployment to the Trump administration’s new immigration detention ...
Health Affairs

In Public Health, Non-Governmental Actors Are Rising To Meet The Moment

The public health system in the United States depends on a wide range of actors beyond the government—the health care sector, universities, community organizations, philanthropy, businesses, and the ...
STAT

A former surgeon general calls on the Senate to carefully consider the new nominee

The U.S. surgeon general holds a position of immense responsibility — serving as the nation’s leading spokesperson on public health matters and overseeing the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned ...

Public health veteran is Trump’s pick to lead CDC as administration shifts tone on vaccines

President Donald Trump’s new pick to lead the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is a public health veteran who has led vaccination programs, a new sign of the administration’s shifting ...