Much like 2025, 2026 is shaping up to be a year full of turmoil and uncertainty for public health and the biomedical sciences. But while we’re still flying blind in many respects, we’ve learned some lessons along the way that we can put to use as we continue to navigate the storm. At the end of last year, we had the pleasure of giving our first workshop in a series on health communication for a local county health department. This was an exciting opportunity for us to engage

Public trust in our government health agencies is at an all-time low. Recent polling by the Kaiser Family Foundation , for example, shows...

Photo by Nick Fewings In a recent interview  with journalist Ben Meiselas, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear spoke at length on the failure of...

Camille Ledoux, PhD As the chaos unfolding at the federal level continues to threaten the future of science and public health in the...

We’ve all heard the cliché that laughter is the best medicine. Of course, in public health we don’t take that literally, because we...

With the Trump administration's communications embargo on public health agencies  and the recent purge of CDC datasets, access to...

Now that the world is officially in the midst of another public health emergency, this time prompted by an epidemic of clade 1b mpox  in...

As we expand the reach and scope of our blog, M&D co-founder S. Patrick Murphy will now be regularly contributing on issues related to...

Paxlovid, the brand name for a combination therapy consisting of ritonavir and nirmatrelvir, is an oral antiviral medication available...

There’s been a lot of discussion in the media recently about the possibility of an avian flu outbreak in humans. This is a breakdown of...

Sexual minorities are at greater risk for many health outcomes and are frequently the subject of public health research. Data on gender...