""It's not good enough to say this is important," said Bernadette Boden-Albala, dean of the school of population and public health at UC Irvine. "They talk about nutrition, but where's the money on nutrition?""
""When public health funding is reduced, prevention work is often the first to be impacted," King said."
"These policies "will reverberate for the rest of this administration if not well beyond that," said Arthur Reingold, professor of epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health and global infectious disease expert."
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promoted a "Make Our Children Healthy Again" strategy that identifies poor diet and lack of physical activity as primary drivers of chronic disease among children. Local health departments focus on food insecurity, health education and access, disease prevention and surveillance, mental health, and regulations to promote safety. Funding reductions have gutted many local programs; Long Beach lost nearly $4 million in federal grants, with the largest cut affecting HIV and sexually transmitted infection prevention. Cuts began in March when an adviser terminated more than $11 billion in public health funding nationwide, and experts warn the effects will reverberate beyond the current administration.
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