American Council on Science and Health

From Cells to Cities: Understanding Public Health Through Entropy

From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...
PBS

Trump administration’s deep cuts to public health leave system reeling

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Americans are losing a vast array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy. Gone are specialists who were confronting a measles outbreak in Ohio, workers who ...
Nature

Low-quality papers based on public health data are flooding the scientific literature

Data from five large open-access health databases are being used to generate thousands of poor-quality, formulaic papers, an analysis has found. Its authors say that the surge in publications could ...
Opinion

Public health needs steady budgets – and federal funding uncertainty cause real harms, even if the money is later restored

Since early 2025, several large federal health grants to states have been suspended and then restored after legal challenges. On Feb. 13, 2026, for example, the federal government moved to suspend ...