The U.S. Senate voted on Feb. 13 to confirm environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), a decision with the potential to instigate reforms that will fundamentally change the U.S. health system and America’s position as a global leader in the biomedical sciences.
Read MoreOn Jan. 20, in an executive order issued on his first day back in office, President Donald J. Trump officially withdrew the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO)—an action that has the potential to fundamentally alter the state of global health security and the ability of the world to handle the inevitable next global pandemic.
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