The Department of Health and Human Services, under Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., restructured its operations leading to 10,000 layoffs. While Kennedy portrays the layoffs as efficiency measures designed to streamline functions, public health experts caution that these cuts will devastate critical programs and erode state and local health infrastructures. Consolidating several agencies into the new Administration for a Healthy America, the changes jeopardize essential services including disease prevention and outbreak response, with long-term consequences that could diminish public health efforts for decades to come.
"We aren't just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic," Kennedy said in a statement.
Experts believe the fallout from this decision could set public health efforts back by decades, as essential services like disease prevention and outbreak response are already crumbling.
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