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APHA has been busy fighting for public health. Take a look at some of what we're doing to stand up and speak for public health.

1. APHA and a broad coalition of organizations, filed a lawsuit [ [link removed] ] on April 28 challenging the Trump administration’s unlawful reorganization of the federal government underway without legislative authority.
 2. We hosted a Decline of Civility in Public Discourse townhall with APA, ICMA and NLC to provide a platform for those who have experienced aggression to share their stories and offer effective strategies to rebuild trust, promote community kindness, support mental health and foster healthy community engagement. (Read the recap [ [link removed] ] or watch the recording [ [link removed] ] .)

The following are some of the recent media pieces including APHA.

1. RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver [ [link removed] ]
HBO
Quotes from Dr. Benjamin included "When you go to a restaurant, I cannot guarantee that the food you're going to eat is safe. And if there's a foodborne outbreak, I cannot guarantee there is going to be a mechanism to come in and do the investigative work to understand how you got sick."
He also highlighted APHA's statement [ [link removed] ] calling for Kennedy to resign or be fired.
 
2. Supreme Court hears case on preventive care under the Affordable Care Act [ [link removed] ]
Scripps News
Dr. Georges Benjamin, who is the executive director of the American Public Health Association, said a ruling that favors the plaintiffs could impact tens of millions of people who rely on their health coverage for preventive care.
"It's going to impact everybody in the country," Benjamin said. "This would mean that your costs for preventive health services would go up, that in many cases you'll have to pay a co-payment or to increase your premiums. That will be very problematic, because most people don't have to pay for that right now."
 
3. Clinical trials face uncertain futures amid Trump cuts [ [link removed] ]
ScienceNews
“The administration has decided to impose their values and their words in people’s research projects — and that’s not up to them,” says Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association. The organization is among several suing NIH, declaring the mass termination of grants unlawful and demanding their restoration. Disrupting clinical trials and other biomedical research could have ripple effects for everyone, he adds. “Even though you may not have a disease, someday you may, and so you lose the potential opportunity of a cure when you do.”
 
4. Experts Warn Court Case Could End Life-Saving Preventive Care [ [link removed] ]
Word in Black
“Expect to see more heart disease, more lung cancer, more kidney disease in communities of color,” Dr. Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, said after a joint press briefing Thursday. If low-income patients are forced to hand over a copay for cancer screening, he says, “people will receive less care, later in the course of their disease, at a higher cost and a higher death rate.”
“It’s a shame they want to take away this service from millions of Americans,” he says, “based on this small number of people based on religious or ideological grounds.”

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