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Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)

Data on the screen as a technician uses a dual energy x-ray absorptiometry at the New York Nutrition and Obesity Research Center in New York, N.Y., on March 24, 2025. (Photo by Bryan Anselm For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Save public health data to save American lives

Wake-up call: Critical public health data is now at risk, but new strategies can preserve and even improve it.
Navajo Indians line up in their vehicles on May 21, 2020, to collect water and supplies from a distribution point as the COVID-19 virus spreads through the Navajo Nation, in Monument Valley at the Utah and Arizona border. (Photo by MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

IHS has delivered billions in water and waste projects to tribal lands. This engineer made it happen

Melissa de Vera will be honored with a Flemming Award for leading IHS recruitment to facilitate $3.5 billion in spending on sanitation projects across the country.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA – AUGUST 06: A general view of the Center for Disease Control headquarters is seen in Atlanta, Georgia, United States on August 06, 2022. (Photo by Nathan Posner/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

CDC sent RIF notices, then pulled some back. The result is chaos, advocates and workers say

Roughly half of the reduction-in-force notices sent to CDC staff last week were rolled back, workers and advocates said. The error adds to existing administrative disorder.
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WASHINGTON – APRIL 11: Department Of Health and Human Services, Hubert H. Humphrey Building on April 11, 2015 in Washington, D.C. (Photo By Raymond Boyd/Getty Images)

HHS has a new DOGE-affiliated technology chief

Zachary Terrell is the chief technology officer at the Department of Health and Human Services, FedScoop has learned. He is also serving at NSF.
A photo of a smartphone and a laptop displaying the logos of OpenAI and ChatGPT. (Photo by MARCO BERTORELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

HHS rolls out ChatGPT across the department

A departmentwide email noted that the generative AI tool, like others, is “particularly good at summarizing long documents” and cautioned workers to “be skeptical” of outputs.
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