Last October, the group rebranded as an advocacy organization for evidence-based, nonpartisan public health and formed the National Public Health Coalition. The National Public Health Coalition’s members aren’t sure if they’ll ever get their jobs back. “Eventually we had this kind of ghost structure for how we do things.”The National Public Health Coalition isn’t alone. (Marie requested to only use her middle name, per the advice of the lawyers representing her and other fired workers in an active lawsuit.) But she sees the data dashboard as critical to the National Public Health Coalition’s advocacy work, sounding the alarm about critical cuts to public health.

Source: The Guardian February 23, 2026 11:32 UTC