Extracts below from an editorial in The Lancet Public Health.
Read online: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanpub/article/PIIS2468-2667(25)00071-4/fulltext?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
CITATION: Editorial: Public health under Trump 2.0: the first 50 days
The Lancet Public Health, Volume 10, Issue 4e264April 2025 Open access
'Jan 20, 2025, US President Donald Trump took charge of the Oval Office and began by signing an array of executive orders spanning from withdrawal from WHO and the Paris Climate Agreement to freezing trillions of US$ worth of federal funding and a ban on diversity, equity, and inclusion programmes. The new US Administration's onslaught on some of the world's most respected scientific public health institutions such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and National Institutes of Health threatens to undermine decades of progress and leadership. The immediate results are confusion, fear, uncertainty, disruption, and chaos; in the longer term: a disaster for domestic and international public health...'
'These past 50 days saw an array of decisions and proposed or paused policies that undermine science and expertise, weaken protection for vulnerable populations, risk worsening health inequities, and threaten public health across the USA and abroad.'
HIFA profile: Neil Pakenham-Walsh is coordinator of HIFA (Healthcare Information For All), a global health community that brings all stakeholders together around the shared goal of universal access to reliable healthcare information. HIFA has 20,000 members in 180 countries, interacting in four languages and representing all parts of the global evidence ecosystem. HIFA is administered by Global Healthcare Information Network, a UK-based nonprofit in official relations with the World Health Organization. Email: neil@hifa.org