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An emergency room doctor describes what the changes at the CDC could mean for public health

By Scott Detrow,
Tyler Bartlam, John Ketchum
Published August 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM CDT

The Trump Administration has made significant changes to the departments in charge of public health. Dr. Craig Spencer, an emergency medicine physician who teaches public health policy at Brown University, discusses the impact he expects on the health of average Americans and for the future of public health research.

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Scott Detrow is a White House correspondent for NPR and co-hosts the NPR Politics Podcast.
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