Public health workers must help deliver wins at the state level, educate the judiciary, and perhaps most challenging of all, work to depoliticize health, experts and former HHS officials said during a panel discussion at the American Public Health Association (APHA) annual meeting.  {[MEDPAGE Today]

Likening the current HHS to a house destroyed in a fire, APHA Executive Director Georges C. Benjamin, MD, called on three former agency leaders to share how they would rebuild that house, assuming HHS in the next administration is led by "a rational, thoughtful group of people." (APHA is currently suing HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., joining a lawsuit from the American Academy of Pediatrics and others, over what Benjamin called "unlawful, unilateral vaccine changes.")

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