US ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Niall Carson/PA/Alamy
This is a dangerous moment for public health in America. On 1 April, Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who heads the US Department of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû1000¼¯ºÏ and Human Services (HHS), began overseeing of an estimated 10,000 people at the agency. The cuts are not just wide but deep – they jeopardise studies that have been running for decades and threaten laboratories that are and influenza both within the US and around the world.
