Abandoning WHO and cuts to CDC and NIH limit U.S. capacity to respond to health threats current and future, known and unknown.
Credit: Photo Illustration: Philip Robibero / AJC | Source: Artem Podrez / Pexels: A
The Trump administration is pulling back from decades of support for global health initiatives. Former federal health officials Dr. Barbara J. Marston and Dr. Kevin M. De Cock say those moves are shortsighted and dangerous. (Photo Illustration: Philip Robibero/AJC | Source: Artem Podrez/Pexels: A)
By Barbara J. Marston and Kevin M. DeCock
17 hours ago
The first obligation of any government is to keep its people safe. This is generally interpreted as support for the military and police, yet, even in times of war, more people die from preventable diseases than from conflict.
National safety cannot be guaranteed without robust systems providing health security and capacity. The COVID-19 pandemic, in which the U.S. fared worse than many comparable countries, and the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa — which could have had much greater impact in the U.S. absent the control efforts overseas — illustrate how lack of preparedness makes us all vulnerable.
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U.S. progress on global health is becoming undone under Trump
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Credit: Bonnie Heath
Dr. Barbara Marston, former deputy director of the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria at the CDC. (Courtesy of Bonnie Heath)
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Cuts to NIH, CDC and FDA have real-world impact on Americans
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Dr. Kevin DeCock, former director of the HIV program at WHO and founding director of the Center for Global Health at the CDC. (Courtesy of United States Mission Geneva)
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