Profs & Pints DC: The New Politics of Public Health

Profs and Pints DC presents: “The New Politics of Public Health,” on the incoming Trump administration’s likely impact on federal health agencies and policies, with Richard Hughes IV, healthcare policy expert and professorial lecturer in law and former professorial lecturer in health policy at George Washington University.

The re-election of President Donald Trump is expected to have major implications for health policy, especially when it comes to vaccines and matters of public health. Trump’s selection of Robert F. Kennedy to lead the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services—along with his choice of other like-minded appointees to head the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control—virtually ensures disruption and uncertainty within such agencies.

Closely following such developments is lawyer Richard Hughes, a nationally recognized expert (and teacher of courses on) law and policy dealing with vaccination and disease prevention. In his former…