Melanie Evans
Reporter and Producer at Tradeoffs
Reporter/producer at Tradeoffs, a nonprofit newsroom that reports on health care's toughest choices. Ex-WSJ.
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6 days ago |
wfyi.org | Melanie Evans
June 21, 2025 President Trump, in his first term, urged Congress to spend more in the nation's decades-long fight against HIV and AIDS. "We have made incredible strides — incredible," the president said to applause during his State of the Union address six years ago. "Together we will defeat AIDS in America and beyond." In that speech, he set out one of the most ambitious health policy goals of his administration: End the HIV epidemic in the U.S. in 10 years.
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1 week ago |
tradeoffs.org | Melanie Evans
Episode TranscriptPresident Trump: Scientific breakthroughs have brought a once-distant dream within reach. Dan Gorenstein: That is President Trump. This is the year before COVID hit. 2019. The president is speaking before Congress. It's his State of the Union address, the big, showy speech when U.S. presidents lay out their policy priorities. DT: My budget will ask Democrats and Republicans to make the needed commitment to eliminate the HIV epidemic in the United States within 10 years.
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1 month ago |
houstonpublicmedia.org | Dan Gorenstein |Melanie Evans
eKatherine Wells has been an epidemiologist working to protect the public from disease outbreaks for 25 years. Until January, she had never encountered measles. “I mean, we considered measles eradicated in the United States,” she said. Now, as public health director for Lubbock, Texas, Wells is at the center of a measles outbreak that has infected more than 700 people in Texas alone, sent more than 90 to the hospital and killed two otherwise healthy children.
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1 month ago |
npr.org | Dan Gorenstein |Melanie Evans
Instructions for a Measles vaccination is seen outside of the Lubbock Public Health facility on April 09, 2025 in Lubbock, Texas. Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America hide caption toggle caption Brandon Bell/Getty Images North America Katherine Wells has been an epidemiologist working to protect the public from disease outbreaks for 25 years. Until January, she had never encountered measles. "I mean, we considered measles eradicated in the United States," she said.
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2 months ago |
tradeoffs.org | Melanie Evans
Episode TranscriptDan Gorenstein: From the first whisper that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could become America's top health official, questions started flying. Clip: Do we know how RFK Jr. is expected to reform Health and Human Services? What would Kennedy actually do as secretary of HHS? Clip: His nomination has drawn criticism from a host of public health leaders. DG: He's a vocal critic of vaccines ... Clip: ...there were some questions about Kennedy's stance on vaccines...
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