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Nov 22, 2024 | 
clinicaladvisor.com | Jennifer Kates |Josh Michaud
Federal officials have significant authority to influence and alter vaccine policy, which could affect vaccine availability, views about vaccines, and vaccine use in the US.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
clinicaladvisor.com | Jennifer Kates |Josh Michaud
KFF Health News — With President-elect Donald Trump announcing his intention to nominate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr, as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and several other nominations expected soon, including for the heads of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), questions have been raised about what influence these appointed health officials have over US vaccine policy.
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Nov 22, 2024 | 
clinicaladvisor.com | Jennifer Kates |Josh Michaud
Federal officials have significant authority to influence and alter vaccine policy, which could affect vaccine availability, views about vaccines, and vaccine use in the US.
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Nov 20, 2024 | 
kff.org | Jennifer Kates |Josh Michaud
With President-elect Donald Trump announcing his intention to nominate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), and several other nominations expected soon, including for the heads of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), questions have been raised about what influence these appointed health officials have over U.S. vaccine policy.
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Jun 18, 2024 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Anna Rouw |Jennifer Kates
This brief was updated on June 18 to reflect developments at the 2024 World Health Assembly. In 2022, due to challenges and gaps exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to a process to review and potentially revise an existing international legal agreement known as the International Health Regulations (IHR).
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May 21, 2024 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Anna Rouw |Jennifer Kates
In 2022, due to challenges and gaps exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic, member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) agreed to a process to review and potentially revise an existing international legal agreement known as the International Health Regulations (IHR). This agreement outlines rights and responsibilities of WHO and governments, including the U.S., in handling international public health events and global health emergencies such as pandemics.
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May 21, 2024 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Drishti Pillai |Samantha Artiga |Jennifer Kates
There is an ongoing multi-state outbreak of H5N1 influenza virus in dairy cattle and other animals in the U.S., the first time this virus is known to have infected cows. So far, only one human case of H5N1 has been associated with the U.S. cattle outbreak, an eye infection in a worker at a dairy farm in Texas. However, there is increasing concern that farmworkers are being exposed to the virus and additional human infections may be occurring.
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Apr 1, 2024 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Jennifer Kates |Anna Rouw
Countries are nearing the end of negotiations on a new international ‘pandemic agreement’ (also referred to as a ‘pandemic accord’ or ‘pandemic treaty’). For more than two years, representatives from member states of the World Health Organization (WHO) have held a series of meetings to draft this new agreement, with a vote on the final text expected in May 2024 during this year’s World Health Assembly (WHA).
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Dec 11, 2023 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Jennifer Kates |Anna Rouw
New federal funding of $3 billion provided to health departments from the American Rescue Plan is designed to build and bolster what has been a depleted public health workforce in the United States. The funding, distributed through the CDC’s Public Health Infrastructure Grants (PHIG) program, has been provided to 107 different jurisdictions, including state, county, city, and territorial health departments.
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May 30, 2023 | 
kff.org | Josh Michaud |Jennifer Kates
In the wake of COVID-19, the world has a new global health, multilateral financing mechanism known as the Pandemic Fund. Based at the World Bank, and officially launched in November 2022, it is the first mechanism with the specific purpose of providing sustained financing to help countries build their capacity to prevent, prepare for, and respond to epidemics and pandemics.
