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DPH warns federal cuts threaten core public‑health work; administration seeks adult vaccine trust fund and local public‑health investments
Summary
Department of Public Health Commissioner Margret Goldstein warned that federal grant and staffing cuts could weaken state immunization, laboratory, and local public‑health capacity and said the administration proposes a state adult vaccine trust fund and continued investments in local public health.
Department of Public Health Commissioner Margret Goldstein told the Joint Committee on Ways and Means that the department’s work is heavily supported by federal grants and that recent federal actions could be ‘‘devastating’’ to public‑health infrastructure.
Goldstein said DPH receives roughly $700 million a year in federal funding that supports immunizations, harm reduction, emergency preparedness and other programs, and she described the recent federal personnel and grant changes as immediate threats. "These cuts are real, our programs are at great risk, people's lives will be affected, people's jobs already are," Goldstein told the committee.
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