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Clinical Practice Guidelines and Protocols

Time for a temporarily privatized CDC policymaking process, sponsored and funded by provider & payer organizations, professional societies and states.

Recent efforts by HHS Secretary Kennedy to politicize CDC policymaking leave us without the science-driven process the nation requires. Therefore, while we wait impatiently for

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Dr. Ward September 2, 2025 9 Comments
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ACO Culture

Recent nomination of anti-science leaders for HHS and CMS is a wake-up call. We need to defend science by staying in our lane to rebuild trust and objectivity.

The recent nominations of science-disrespecting people to lead HHS and CMS should be a wake-up call. Growing up, I naively believed that antipathy to science

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Dr. Ward November 20, 2024 2 Comments
COVID-19

CDC’s new $200M Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics mistakenly frames modeling efforts as “forecasting.” It should be all about policy decision support.

In an excellent article in New York Times Magazine, Jeneen Interlandi reported on her interviews with leaders of CDC’s new $200M Center for Forecasting and

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Dr. Ward November 28, 2021 2 Comments
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