From Our June 2026 Connections Newsletter

• Restoring the Lost Records of US Global Health [Think Global Health]
• One Year In: Public Views of a Changing Public Health Landscape [Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health]
• Opinion | 8 Former CDC Directors: Reform PEPFAR, Don’t Dismantle It [STAT]
• World Health Assembly Declines to Recognize Argentina’s Withdrawal from WHO [Health Policy Watch]
• Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New & Deadly Microbes [The New Yorker]
• Inside Trump’s Reversal on HIV [Politico]
• An HIV-Free Generation Is Closer than You Think [Vox]
• ‘We’re Not Seeing a Rebound’: New Data Shows HIV Services Not Recovering [Devex]
• Global AIDS Brief — United to End AIDS [UNITAID]
• Is the US Still ‘The Largest Aid Provider by Far’? It Depends [Devex]
• US Health Care from a Global Perspective, 2026 [Commonwealth Fund]
• The OMB & the Politicization of Science [New England Journal of Medicine]
• They’re Uninsured After Obamacare Became Too Costly. And They’re Far from Alone. [KFF Health News]
• Human Rights Assessment of the 2025–2026 US Bilateral Health Agreements [Human Rights Watch]
• 95% of CDC Workers Say Americans Will Die Because of Federal Cuts to the Agency [CIDRAP]
• CDC Activates Emergency Response to Screwworm Infestations [The Hill]
• Trump Administration Revamps Addiction Treatment Playbook [Axios]
• Trump Admin Outlines Who Would Be Exempt from Medicaid Work Requirements [NBC News]
• Most US Doctors Are Quietly Using This AI Tool. Few Patients Know About It. [NBC News]
• Agentic AI Comes to Medicine [Eric Topol’s Ground Truths Substack]
• US Insurers’ Move to Back Vaccines Sends ‘Powerful’ Message about Safety of Shots, Experts Say [The Guardian]
• Festering Infections to Untreated Cancer: ICE Detainees Describe Medical Neglect Across US [AP News, KFF Health News]
• World Cup’s Hidden Health Operation [Your Local Epidemiologist]
• She Faced a Life-Threatening Miscarriage. Under Arkansas’ Abortion Ban, Even Calls to the Governor’s Office Didn’t Help. [ProPublica]
• Melinda French Gates Commits $215M, Expanding Women’s Health Focus [Devex]
• What ProPublica Found in the Genetic Code of America’s Measles Outbreaks [ProPublica]
• Anguished Parents, Crying Doctors: Life Amid Utah’s Measles Outbreak [Wired]
• Malaria Reintroduction into US Is Possible: CDC Report [CIDRAP]
• Global Fund Partners with CIFF to Bring New TB Tests to 13 Countries [Devex]
• Accompanying Governments to Scale [Stanford Social Innovation Review]
• Climate Crisis Is Accelerating Antibiotic Resistance Across World, Study Says [The Guardian]
• Slums Are Bearing the Brunt of the Climate Crisis — & Devising Solutions [Knowable Magazine]
• Snakebite – Long Ignored, Recently Recognized as Neglected Disease [Health Policy Watch]
• Gaza’s Public Health Crisis Deepens as Rodent Infestations, Sewage Overflow and Soaring Heat Threaten Civilians [International Rescue Committee]
• MSF Accuses All South Sudan Forces of Exploiting Aid for Military Objectives [Reuters]
• Cuba’s Health Care Buckles Under Fuel Blockade [Health Policy Watch]
• Hunger Increasingly Used as Weapon of War as ‘Food-Related Violence’ Surges, Analysis Shows [The Guardian]
• 30,000 People Flee Fresh Violence in Haiti as Hunger Crisis Deepens [United Nations]
• UN Food Agency Says Millions Are Being Pushed into Hunger by Iran War [The Independent]
• UN Food Agencies Warn Acute Hunger Will Worsen in 13 Hot Spots as Famine Risks Rise [AP News]
• Zero Allocation for Neglected Tropical Diseases Puts Millions of Kenyans at Risk [Daily Nation]
• More than 500 Children Have Died in an Outbreak That the World Is Virtually Ignoring [NPR]
• Hantavirus Outbreak Revives Covid-Era False Health Claims [KFF The Monitor]
• Hantavirus May Survive in Human Sperm for up to Six Years & Cause a Transmission Risk [The Telegraph]
• How Did the Cruise Ship Hantavirus Outbreak Start? Scientists Are Investigating New Scenarios [Science]
• This Could Be the Worst Ebola Outbreak in History [New York Times]
• Ebola Outbreak Is Three Times Bigger Than Previous Outbreaks at Four Weeks [Health Policy Watch]
• WHO Director-General Is Profoundly Concerned After Visit to Ebola Outbreak Area [STAT]
• Opinion | I Led the US CDC Response to the 2014 Ebola Epidemic. The New Outbreak Needs Massive, Immediate, Meticulous Action [STAT]
• What Will It Take to Get a Bundibugyo Vaccine? [Global Health NOW]
• Opinion | Ebola Outbreak Response Requires Engaging with Religious Traditions & Leaders [STAT]
• The US Ebola Response Is a Harbinger of Worse Things to Come [MedPage Today]
• US CDC Activates $107M in Emergency Funding for Ebola Response [Reuters]
• Contact Tracing Is the Biggest Weakness in Ebola Outbreak [Health Policy Watch]
• Africa CDC: Over 28,000 Contacts of Ebola Cases Aren’t Being Tracked [Devex]
• At the Frontline of Trust: A Day with WHO’s Ebola Community Engagement Officer in DRC [WHO]
• Can Africa Pay for Its Own Outbreaks? Ebola Offers an Early Test [Devex]