Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH
@leslieewolf.bsky.social
Law professor working in health law, public health and ethics, with a focus on research ethics, at Georgia State University College of Law's Center for Law, Health & Society
Powerful story about the impact of journalism and lawyering in calling attention and making a difference . . . eventually. But these individuals deserved justice sooner than 22 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...
October 4, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Powerful story about the impact of journalism and lawyering in calling attention and making a difference . . . eventually. But these individuals deserved justice sooner than 22 years. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/n...
If you haven't seen it, NIH is again receiving applications for Certificates of Confidentiality for non-federally funded research. It is a relief to see this option available again.
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Certificate of Confidentiality (CoC) System Is Accepting Requests | Grants & Funding
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September 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
If you haven't seen it, NIH is again receiving applications for Certificates of Confidentiality for non-federally funded research. It is a relief to see this option available again.
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Broader access to effective vaccines significantly improved the health and life span in the 20th Century. Florida has just taken a big step back in time.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates
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September 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Broader access to effective vaccines significantly improved the health and life span in the 20th Century. Florida has just taken a big step back in time.
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Says It Plans to End All Vaccine Mandates www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Reposted by Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH
Here’s the text of the joint press eelease describing how CA, OR & WA will coordinate their review & incorporation of private medical organizations’ guidelines into state immunization recommendations that each state will develop & promulgate in line with its own laws
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California, Oregon, and Washington to launch new West Coast Health Alliance to uphold scientific integrity in public health as Trump destroys CDC’s credibility | Governor of California
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September 3, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Here’s the text of the joint press eelease describing how CA, OR & WA will coordinate their review & incorporation of private medical organizations’ guidelines into state immunization recommendations that each state will develop & promulgate in line with its own laws
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
www.gov.ca.gov/2025/09/03/c...
Reposted by Leslie E. Wolf, JD, MPH
Pediatricians fear sweeping changes to long-standing childhood vaccines — from hepatitis B to RSV — as Kennedy reshapes CDC policy.
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Big shakeups to the childhood vaccination schedule could be nearing
Big shakeups may be coming to the childhood vaccination schedule. Here's a look at some of the shots that could be subject to shifting U.S. recommendations.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Pediatricians fear sweeping changes to long-standing childhood vaccines — from hepatitis B to RSV — as Kennedy reshapes CDC policy.
www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/c...
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Viewpoint: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)'s draft guidance for Medicare's Drug Price Negotiation Program addresses concerns that manufacturers might use combination drugs to evade price negotiations.
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September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Viewpoint: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)'s draft guidance for Medicare's Drug Price Negotiation Program addresses concerns that manufacturers might use combination drugs to evade price negotiations.
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Fear and trembling at NIH as administration moves to weaken peer review of research grants. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News
The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...
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September 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Fear and trembling at NIH as administration moves to weaken peer review of research grants. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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House Republicans add to support for maintaining NIH budget in 2026: Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
House Republicans add to support for maintaining NIH budget in 2026
Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut
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September 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
House Republicans add to support for maintaining NIH budget in 2026: Both chambers of Congress have now rejected Trump’s proposed 40% cut | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
This headline tells the tale.
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find.
www.nytimes.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This headline tells the tale.
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Trump Wants Proof That Covid Vaccines Work. It’s Easy to Find. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/h...
Excited that my most recent article (with Samantha Kench (former GSU student) and Marielle Gross ) was published last week in Science - Disrupting the biospecimen “treasure trove”: Practice, precedent, and future directions | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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August 26, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Excited that my most recent article (with Samantha Kench (former GSU student) and Marielle Gross ) was published last week in Science - Disrupting the biospecimen “treasure trove”: Practice, precedent, and future directions | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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Eliminating barriers to #mentalhealth care for physicians is essential to prevent untreated conditions and suicides, improve well-being, and maintain high-quality patient care.
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August 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Eliminating barriers to #mentalhealth care for physicians is essential to prevent untreated conditions and suicides, improve well-being, and maintain high-quality patient care.
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From 2010 to 2022, international medical graduates made up approximately 18% of the US #physician workforce, particularly in underserved urban areas, despite growing numbers of US medical graduates.
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August 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From 2010 to 2022, international medical graduates made up approximately 18% of the US #physician workforce, particularly in underserved urban areas, despite growing numbers of US medical graduates.
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Vani Pariyadath: ‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH
As federal support vanishes for research addressing the root causes of health disparities in the United States, we are left with a dangerous void and an urgent need to rethink science funding.
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August 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Vani Pariyadath: ‘A whole body of health-equity research is being disappeared’ — why I resigned from the NIH. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Today's @kffhealthnews.org haiku:
UNWAVERING SUPPORT
Dear CDC staff:
All of us in public health
stand strong with you now.
- Kristi Jones
UNWAVERING SUPPORT
Dear CDC staff:
All of us in public health
stand strong with you now.
- Kristi Jones
August 11, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Today's @kffhealthnews.org haiku:
UNWAVERING SUPPORT
Dear CDC staff:
All of us in public health
stand strong with you now.
- Kristi Jones
UNWAVERING SUPPORT
Dear CDC staff:
All of us in public health
stand strong with you now.
- Kristi Jones
Great article @michaelrulrich.bsky.social!
Skrmetti and Supreme Court–Sanctioned Intrusion on the Practice of Medicine url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837433?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080725
Skrmetti and Supreme Court–Sanctioned Intrusion on the Practice of Medicine url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837433?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080725
August 7, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Great article @michaelrulrich.bsky.social!
Skrmetti and Supreme Court–Sanctioned Intrusion on the Practice of Medicine url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837433?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080725
Skrmetti and Supreme Court–Sanctioned Intrusion on the Practice of Medicine url:https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2837433?utm_source=bluesky&utm_campaign=content-shareicons&utm_content=article_engagement&utm_medium=social&utm_term=080725
"The CDC is at particular risk because its role is poorly understood, is often misrepresented, and, though traditionally nonpartisan, has tepid congressional support."
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | NEJM
The extreme reductions that the Trump administration is making at the vital, mission-driven Centers for Disease Control and Prevention amount to unilateral disarmament against health hazards.
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July 31, 2025 at 4:42 PM
"The CDC is at particular risk because its role is poorly understood, is often misrepresented, and, though traditionally nonpartisan, has tepid congressional support."
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Dismantling Public Health Infrastructure, Endangering American Lives | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
"After a 15-year struggle to repeal Obamacare, the GOP has succeeded in enacting policies that could reverse many of the coverage gains made under the ACA."
Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | NEJM
Making it harder to qualify for and stay enrolled in Medicaid or subsidized ACA coverage,
the 2025 budget reconciliation act represents the largest rollback of health insurance
coverage in U.S. his...
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July 31, 2025 at 4:35 PM
"After a 15-year struggle to repeal Obamacare, the GOP has succeeded in enacting policies that could reverse many of the coverage gains made under the ACA."
Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Progress Lost — The Unraveling of Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act | New England Journal of Medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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A senior leader at one NIH institute said: “At my level we are legitimately trying to figure out how to keep funding high-impact science given what we expect will happen.”
The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”
The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”
Trump administration halts, then releases, NIH research funding
The decision temporarily froze $15 billion in federal funding, according to one senator. It came as Trump officials wrestle over federal spending levels.
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July 30, 2025 at 10:49 AM
A senior leader at one NIH institute said: “At my level we are legitimately trying to figure out how to keep funding high-impact science given what we expect will happen.”
The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”
The senior leader added: “Our grants people are barely holding it together because they are at the center of this chaos.”
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Two-spirit and LGBTQ+ Native Americans are in “panic mode” amid federal rollbacks of discrimination protections and gender-affirming care, said Itai Jeffries of the Raven Collective, a Native public health consulting group.
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Tribal Groups Assert Sovereignty as Feds Crack Down on Gender-Affirming Care - KFF Health News
Native American groups declare that tribal sovereignty trumps state and federal efforts to restrict or ban gender-affirming care for two-spirit and LGBTQ+ tribal citizens. Tribes are analyzing the ris...
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July 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Two-spirit and LGBTQ+ Native Americans are in “panic mode” amid federal rollbacks of discrimination protections and gender-affirming care, said Itai Jeffries of the Raven Collective, a Native public health consulting group.
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Thank you @statnews.com for keeping the research community (and others) informed when things change so very quickly!
Trump administration reverses course and lifts pause on NIH grant awards www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/t...
Trump administration reverses course, lifts pause on NIH grant awards
The order applies to the entirety of new and, possibly, ongoing research grant dollars that go to universities and academic medical centers.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Thank you @statnews.com for keeping the research community (and others) informed when things change so very quickly!
We're hiring! Georgia State Law's nationally-recognized Center for Law, Health & Society is recruiting for a health law faculty member with a focus on health care business, financing and/or regulation to join us in Atlanta! Open-rank, apply by Sept. 1, 2025.
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Health Law Professor (Open Rank Tenure-Track)
Georgia State University College of Law invites entry-level and lateral candidates to apply for a tenure-track professor position in Health Law to begin no later than the 2026-2027 academic year. A su...
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July 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
We're hiring! Georgia State Law's nationally-recognized Center for Law, Health & Society is recruiting for a health law faculty member with a focus on health care business, financing and/or regulation to join us in Atlanta! Open-rank, apply by Sept. 1, 2025.
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"Altogether, the bill would enact the largest cuts to federal health care spending in history. . . lead[ing] to 11.8 million people losing health insurance over the next decade"
Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending www.statnews.com/2025/07/01/s... via @statnews.com
Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending www.statnews.com/2025/07/01/s... via @statnews.com
Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending
The Senate has passed a $4.5 trillion tax cut bill after last-minute changes to its health care provisions, as Republicans scrambled to get their party on board.
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July 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
"Altogether, the bill would enact the largest cuts to federal health care spending in history. . . lead[ing] to 11.8 million people losing health insurance over the next decade"
Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending www.statnews.com/2025/07/01/s... via @statnews.com
Senate passes Trump’s tax-cut bill that would slash Medicaid spending www.statnews.com/2025/07/01/s... via @statnews.com
A new twice yearly drug could significantly reduce HIV infections, but because of US funding cuts "we’re moving backwards at warp speed"
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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Promise of Victory Over H.I.V. Fades as U.S. Withdraws Support
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June 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A new twice yearly drug could significantly reduce HIV infections, but because of US funding cuts "we’re moving backwards at warp speed"
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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Threats to federal funding have created 'a climate of anxiety' among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins. But those who live with autoimmune diseases could suffer the greatest consequences. | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/24/n...
Federal budget cuts slow pace of breakthrough autoimmune therapies
Federal budget cuts have created "a climate of anxiety" among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins. But those who live with autoimmune diseases could suffer...
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June 25, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Threats to federal funding have created 'a climate of anxiety' among medical researchers, says Maximilian F. Konig, a rheumatologist at Johns Hopkins. But those who live with autoimmune diseases could suffer the greatest consequences. | Hub hub.jhu.edu/2025/06/24/n...
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Is RFK Jr. interested in making vaccines safer? If so, safety scientists say he knows how to reach them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer - KFF Health News
Vaccines are under fire from the top of the Trump administration. Federal programs to monitor them and make them safer have always been underfunded.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Is RFK Jr. interested in making vaccines safer? If so, safety scientists say he knows how to reach them. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...