United States: The first roadblock facing the new agency that is at the center of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is Congress.
A broad reorganization plan of the Department of Health and Human Services proposed by the Administration would reduce the size of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and cut a list of disease prevention programs as it turns the Administration for a Healthy America into a new crown jewel of the agency, with a focus on chronic disease.
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Existing federal agencies and programs would be rolled into the new division, as would efforts against HIV and mental health and substance use prevention programs.
The budget request of the Department of Health and Human Services for the 2026 fiscal year would merge the 28 divisions of the department into 15 in order to establish a new “institution of public health.”
The novel agency is called the Administration for a Healthy America and has a budget of USD 20.6 billion that is meant to facilitate the agenda of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the Make America Healthy Again.
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That would be by absorbing – and slashing – funding to the CDC chronic disease and global health centers as well as some of the institutes now under the umbrella of the National Institutes of Health, CBS News reported.
According to the budget request released last Friday by the Administration for Healthy America, or AHA, the agency will employ a root cause approach to the prevention of chronic disease.
However, the budget would eliminate funding for all the programs in the chronic disease center of the CDC and would substantially cut current primary care, mental health, and environmental health programs.
The reductions reduce the budget of the CDC by almost 50 percent, eliminating the funding in FY 2024, which was almost USD 9.2 billion, to USD 4.2 billion.
Of the funding cut, at least 20 percent or 1 billion dollars is being transferred to AHA.
The reductions will trickle down to states and cities. It is known that the large majority of CDC funding is discretionary and is directed to state and local health departments.
Furthermore, last year, the departments received USD 4.5 billion of CDC funding to “promote and protect health in their communities.”