Recent weeks have brought continued turbulence across US health agencies, including the resignation of FDA Commissioner Marty Makary amid internal conflicts. Vaccine policy, vacancies in CDC and FDA leadership, NIH funding levels, USAID dismantling, and withheld support for international initiatives such as Gavi and HIV programs continue to cause concern. The past several weeks have also seen growing alarm from researchers, lawmakers, and public health officials about scientific independence and the administration’s handling of infectious disease preparedness amid the hantavirus outbreak. Against this backdrop, the State Department announced $1.8 billion in new US humanitarian aid aligned with the Trump administration’s foreign policy interests, and the Supreme Court ruled that Mifepristone may remain available by mail nationwide while litigation continues.
Resources
Advocacy and Mobilization
- Alliance members BCG, CUGH (here and here), DNDi, FHI 360 (here and here), For Our Health (here and here), Friends of the Global Fight (here and here), GAIA (here and here), Gavi (here and here), Gilead Sciences (here and here), Global Health Corps (here and here), Global Health Council (here and here), Global Health Technologies Coalition (here and here), IDEO.org (here and here), inSupply Health, Maya Health Alliance | Wuqu’ Kawoq, MedShare, Nexleaf Analytics (here and here), North Carolina Global Health Alliance (here and here), PATH (here and here), Pathfinder (here and here), Population Services International (here and here), Public Health Institute, ReSurge International, Roche, Sabin Vaccine Institute, Seed Global Health (here and here), Stanford (here and here), UC Berkeley (here and here), UCGHI, UCSF (here and here), UNICEF (here and here), USA for UNFPA (here and here), Vital Strategies (here and here), and Zenysis have spoken with the press or issued statements.
- Find and Contact Your Representatives: U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. Here is a list of key decision makers in Congress, their contact information, as well as sample language to consider.
Navigating the Legal Questions and Resources for Workers
- Humentum offers resources for navigating the foreign assistance pause.
- Connective Impact has launched an open-source resource document in response to the U.S. foreign aid policy shifts.
- Devex has summarized 5 rapid response funds for organizations affected by the US aid freeze.
- Just Security has a Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions.
- Tech Change is sharing a job board and resource curation for those impacted.
- Other job opportunities sites include: Philanthropy News Digest, Idealist.org, WorkforGOOD, FastForward, Reconsidered, The Impact Job, ExecSearches.com, and Foundationlist.org.
- Find a Job I Devex
- Nonprofit Jobs | Work for Good
- The Pivot Playbook
- Find and Fund Defunded Global Health Grants: database of defunded NIH global health research projects seeking support
- Founders Pledge: Nonprofit organization that works to bridge the gap between entrepreneurs and charities making impact in the world
- Fired but Fighting, a Coalition of Fired HHS Employees and Allies
Tracking Impact
- Foreign Assistance Tracker
- A Shock to the System: Global Health After U.S. Aid Cuts [May 2026]
- Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Update [March 2026]
- Center for Global Development | Who Is Getting New US Foreign Assistance Contracts and Awards?
- Devex | The Aid Report
- The State Department Is Asking the World for New Global Health Ideas [Jirair Ratevosian]
- Health Security Policy Academy: U.S. Global Health Spending Watch
- The Impact Metrics Dashboard (Boston University) visualizes the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations. The site has an impact tracker for PEPFAR, tuberculosis (TB), and Medicaid and is looking for additional collaborators. Read more.
- GHTC tracks how US investments in global health R&D are paying economic and health dividends in each state. (Learn more)
- Also see Center for Global Development I How Many Lives Does US Foreign Aid Save?
- KFF has a new series of fact sheets on the status of U.S. global health aid cuts, from maternal and child health to TB and malaria, and fact sheets on global health program impact.
- KFF also has an overview of President Trump’s executive actions on global health and a timeline of events that provides a detailed overview of actions (and counter-actions) related to the administration’s efforts to freeze all U.S. foreign aid and dissolve USAID.
- Grant Watch’s Weekly Terminated NIH Grants Report presents an overview of recent trends in NIH grant terminations, reinstatements, new grant initiations, and continuations.
- Emory Rollins Public Health has shared data showing the impact of public health cuts.
- Devex Court Watch: The latest on the USAID docket
- Devex ‘The Trump Effect’, highlighting the latest news, in-depth analysis, and exclusive insights on how the Trump administration’s policies are reshaping global development.
- Gates Foundation I Health Aid Saves Lives. Don’t Cut It, provides an aggregation of US aid cut impacts
- ProPublica I Gutted: How Deeply Trump Has Cut Federal Health Agencies
- Verified and Vetted Science Accounts to Start Following for Public Health Accuracy [Cate Russel]
- State of Disunion: The Impact of Us Funding Cuts on Global Health R&D
- NEJM I Health and Medical Research Funding in a Divided America — How to Increase Support
- STAT+ | Tracking RFK Jr.’s Promises to Remake Health in America
- KFF: U.S. Global Health Country-Level Funding Tracker
Sources
May 14, 2026
- Devex | Trump Administration to Announce $1.5B in New Humanitarian Aid
- NBC News | Supreme Court Allows Abortion Pill to Remain Available by Mail Nationwide
May 13, 2026
- New York Times | Top Kennedy Spokesman Resigns in Protest of Move to Allow Flavored Vapes
- The Hill | White House Threatens to Withhold Medicaid Money from States over Fraud
May 12, 2026
- STAT+ | Makary Departs FDA amid Turmoil as Diamantas, Agency’s Top Food Official, Steps In
- Huffington Post | Experts Stress Trump’s CDC Is ‘Not Sufficiently Responding’ To Hantavirus. Here’s What Info You Can Actually Trust.
May 11, 2026
May 9, 2026
- New York Times | Gavi: Opinion | This Is What Happened When Trump Abandoned the World’s Poorest Children
- AP News | Experts Wonder ‘Where Is the CDC?’ as a Hantavirus Outbreak Unfolds on a Cruise Ship
May 8, 2026
May 7, 2026
- Devex | Gavi: US Lawmakers Push Back as Trump Administration Blocks $600M
- CNN | The Trump Administration Is Trying to Divert $2 Billion in Global Health Funding to Pay for USAID Shutdown
- New York Times | Hantavirus Response Shows How Trump Cuts Have Compromised U.S. Preparedness
May 6, 2026
- KFF | Health Tracking Poll: MAHA and the Midterms
- STAT | Why the FDA Is Authorizing Fruit-Flavored Vapes
- Think Global Health | UCSF: As Defunded HIV Programs Thin, Uneven Resilience Emerges
May 5, 2026
- The Guardian | UCSF: FDA Blocked Studies Finding COVID and Shingles Vaccines Safe, HHS Official Says
- Reuters | FDA Authorizes First Fruit-Flavored E-cigarettes in the US amid Political Pressure
- NOTUS | FDA Chief Marty Makary Is on ‘Thin Ice’ With the White House
- Science | CDC Leader Calls for New Journal to ‘Elevate Scientific Rigor’
May 4, 2026
- STAT | Immigration Changes Are Driving Foreign Researchers to Leave the US — Or Not Come to Begin With
- Healthcare Dive | DOJ Launches Strike Force Targeting West Coast Healthcare Fraud
- New York Times | Kennedy Starts a Push to Help Americans Quit Antidepressants
May 3, 2026
April 30, 2026
- STAT | Trump Drops Casey Means as Surgeon General Nominee, Opts for Radiologist Nicole Saphier
- STAT | Opinion: Congress Must Hold RFK Jr. Accountable after Hearings
April 29, 2026
April 28, 2026
- STAT | In First Meeting, Federal Autism Committee Focuses on ‘Profound Autism’
- ProPublica | The Trump Administration Aims to Penalize Disabled Adults Who Live With Their Families
- Politico | Gavi: RFK Jr. Is Holding up $600M in Vaccines for Poor Countries
April 27, 2026
- Washington Post | UC Berkeley: CDC Delay of Infant Hepatitis B Shot Likely to Raise Infections, Studies Show
- Inside Medicine | Exclusive: Here’s the COVID-19 Vaccine Paper the CDC Censored.
- Devex | US Threatens to Halt UN Funding unless Conditions Met
April 26, 2026
April 25, 2026
April 24, 2026
- Devex | USAID Tells Congress It Has $19B to Spend on Closing Out Awards
- MedPage Today | UCSF: Trump Administration to Revive Axed 988 Line for LGBTQ+ Youth in Crisis
- Science | After Pulling Vaccine Study, Bhattacharya Criticizes Long-Running CDC Publication
- US News | Former Tobacco Executive Takes CDC Role
April 23, 2026
- Devex | How’s Trump’s Push to Transform the Global Social and Moral Order Going?
- Dr. Jessica Knurick Substack | RFK Jr. Asked for “One Piece of Misinformation” He’s Ever Said. Here are 21.
- New York Times | The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Movement Is Cooling on Trump and Republicans
April 22, 2026
- Washington Post | CDC Won’t Publish Report Showing COVID Shots Cut Likelihood of Hospital Visits
- Inside Medicine | The Only Question for the New CDC Director Nominee: Is She Marco or Monarez?
- New York Times | Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
April 21, 2026
- STAT | Flu Vaccine No Longer Mandated for US Troops, Defense Secretary Says
- New York Times | A Year After U.S.A.I.D.’s Death, Fired Workers Find Few Jobs and Much Loss
April 19, 2026
April 17, 2026
April 16, 2026
- STAT | Trump Taps Former Public Health Leader Erica Schwartz to Run CDC
- Washington Post | Trump Administration Pushes Nations to Sign ‘Trade over Aid’ Declaration
- STAT+ | Kennedy Focuses on Affordability, Combating Fraud in Capitol Hill Hearings
April 15, 2026
- Devex | Gilead: US and Global Fund Ramp Up Support for HIV Prevention Jab
- Axios | White House Weighs Former Deputy Surgeon General to Lead CDC
- Devex | Former USAID Health Chief Documents Agency’s Turbulent End in New Book
- Health Policy Watch | Friends of the Global Fight: Call for US Congressional Oversight on Bilateral Health Agreements
April 14, 2026
- Devex | US to UN, Global Aid Has Failed to Improve Lives of Poor
- Devex | Lewin Denies Shutdown of Global Health Supply Chain
April 13, 2026
April 12, 2026
April 9, 2026
- Washington Post | CDC Delays Publishing Report Showing COVID Vaccine Benefits
- STAT | New Rules for CDC Vaccine Panel Aim to Address Lawsuit, Empower Kennedy’s Allies
- MedPage Today | Experts Blast Plan to Alter ACIP Members’ Expertise Requirements
- Bloomberg | RFK Jr. Has Stopped Talking About Vaccines. A Memo Shows Why
- Devex | ODA Plummets by Almost a Quarter, Driven by Billions in US Cuts
- Devex | US Deputy Secretary of State Stresses Reciprocity in Foreign Aid
April 8, 2026
- STAT+ | Trump Administration Drops Court Fight to Cap NIH Payments for Research Overhead Costs
- AP News | RFK Jr Is Launching a Podcast to Expose ‘Lies’ That Have Made Americans Sick
April 5, 2026
April 3, 2026
- STAT+ | White House Proposes 12% Cut to Federal Health Agencies in 2027 Budget Request
- New York Times | H.H.S. Takes a First Step Toward Restoring Vaccine Advisory Committee
- Devex | Inside America’s $2 Billion Humanitarian Bet
April 2, 2026
- NBC | Kennedy Sidelining of US Advisory Panel Delays Updates to Cancer Screening Guidelines
- New York Times | Nutrition Is In and D.E.I. Is Out as Medical Schools Bow to Kennedy
April 1, 2026