Physician-economist Jay Bhattacharya, currently leading the National Institutes of Health, has been appointed acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amid leadership instability under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr
Twenty U.S. states have sued the Trump administration for allegedly violating federal privacy laws by sharing Medicaid data of non-citizens with DHS to aid deportations. California AG Rob Bonta says the move breaches HIPAA and long-standing federal protections.
Gavi is a public-private partnership including WHO, UNICEF, the Gates Foundation, and the World Bank. It has paid for more than 1 billion children to be vaccinated through routine immunisation programmes, saving an estimated 18 million lives
