A year after changes to federal leadership in the U.S. public health system, a new poll finds that trust in public health agencies has dropped dramatically. Only 50% of U.S. adults say they trust health recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), compared to 77% in spring 2025. The fraction who say they trust their state health department has declined from 80% to 66% and the fraction who say they trust their local public health department has fallen from 82% to 70%.

The poll, One Year In: Public Views of a Changing Public Health Landscape, was conducted by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation’s Public Health Listening Lab from March 19 to April 1, 2026, among a probability-based, nationally representative sample of 2,205 U.S. adults ages 18+. The poll was supported by the de Beaumont Foundation.

Adolescents who spend at least two hours a day on social media are more likely to experience depressive symptoms and poorer wellbeing, with the strongest effects in early adolescence, according to new research.

As cases of hypertensive disorders of pregnancy continue to rise, Dr. Samantha Parker Kelleher, associate professor of epidemiology at Boston University School of Public Health, has received a five-year, $3.2 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to examine the effects of postpartum hypertension on recurrent HDP and identify ways to decrease HDP rates among mothers, which range from 15-45 percent in the US.

Research led by King’s College London has analysed antimicrobial resistance (AMR) on a global scale to predict how resistance patterns could evolve by the year 2050, identifying around 210 resistance traits that could pose the greatest future risk.