Abby Tighe thought she had landed her forever job.
She joined the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in December 2023,
managing a national youth substance abuse prevention program.
The project focused on rural communities, and Tighe, whose family is from Appalachia, was proud to be using her public health training to support often-overlooked parts of the country.
The CDC was different than anywhere else Ive worked, says Tighe.
People didnt care about their own ambitions as much as they cared about the larger mission.
It was always my dream to work there.
That dream ended a year ago, when Tighe received a form email on 14 February letting her know the Trump administration was firing her.
Classified as a probationary worker, she was one of the first to lose her job in what quickly became a dramatic downsizing of the CDC workforce.
To date, the current administration has either fired or is in the process of firing more than 4,000 CDC employees a third of the agency.
While they battled to get their jobs back,
Tighe and several other fired CDC employees banded together
to create an improvised network they called "Fired But Fighting".
But as the months dragged on, Fired But Fightings members watched as the administration,
under the direction of Robert F Kennedy, the US health secretary,
transformed the agency into something scarcely recognizable.
Rather than focus on fighting for jobs that may no longer exist, they decided to grow into something new
to advocate for public health the way the CDC had always done it.
We saw there was a need for an organization that stands in the gap,
says Aryn Backus, a former CDC health communication specialist who was fired on the same day as Tighe.
Last October, the group rebranded as an advocacy organization for evidence-based, nonpartisan public health
and formed the "National Public Health Coalition".
The idea for a new name less confrontational and more inclusive
had come in part from , Donald Trumps first-term surgeon general,
now a sharp critic of the administrations public health policies,
who warned Tighes team during a web call last May that they would struggle to win over Republicans with the word fighting in their name.
The National Public Health Coalitions members arent sure if theyll ever get their jobs back.
Instead, theyre applying the skills they once used at the CDC at this new organization.
Data scientists run the "CDC Data Project", which tracks budget and staffing cuts and their impact on everything from cancer research to controlling disease outbreaks.
Communications experts dispatch to Capitol Hill, meeting with lawmakers and staffers to explain how projects theyve championed,
such as Alzheimers research or curbing domestic violence,
are being eviscerated.
Former press officers alert media to the downsizings real-world effects,
like when Milwaukee health officials struggling to contain a lead contamination crisis found
the CDCs entire childhood lead prevention program had been eliminated
(after a flurry of news stories, the team was hastily reinstated).
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Board of Peace Announces $5 Billion in Gaza Reconstruction Pledges
A new group called the Board of Peace will announce over $5 billion for Gaza reconstruction at its first meeting. This aims to help rebuild after the long conflict.
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A new group, the Board of Peace, is set to announce more than $5 billion in help for rebuilding Gaza. This announcement will happen at their first meeting in Washington, D.C. The group hopes to help end the long conflict and rebuild the area.
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A Japanese member of Doctors Without Borders has expressed a sense of crisis after Israel barred international nongovernmental organizations from operating in the Gaza Strip.
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The German federal government has issued a pressing appeal to DonaldTrump's newly formed "Peace Council" before its first meeting, saying it is already in dial...
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Afghans receive food aid from a local charity on the first day of Ramadan, in Injil district, Herat province.
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Compliant : #Israel-approved scaling up in can roughly be divided into 2 categories: those that appear well-intentioned but have chosen to barter silence for access, & othersmore politically aligned with Israeli authorities. groups now being favoured by Israeli authorities have downplayed or avoided talking about Israeli conduct in Gaza, & senior officials from severalhave publicly supported Israels military campaign... Full story at TNH
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Medics in UK and US say they have been barred from Gaza after speaking out
Despite a ceasefire, Israel has been hindering nearly half of humanitarian aid missions in Gaza Strip, according to the United Nations on Monday Feb. 16.
From the FT - the observation that overseas aid is going to fall faster in the UK than the US (as a comparator)
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(AR) Young Palestinian artists organize a activity for displaced along the coast of , offering psychosocial support amid ongoing war conditions and life in temporary shelters
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Kyiv's UN ambassador AndrijMelnyk and CDU foreignpolicy spokesman RoderichKiesewetter sharply criticized the absence of concrete commitments toward Ukraine f...
Mandelson "conducted unofficial diplomacy with Israel on behalf of the last Conservative government after fresh details of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein had emerged."
"Revelation comes as the Conservatives are heavily criticising Labour."
Author: Martin Williams
Publication: Declassified UK
February 10, 2026
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Author: Steven W. Thrasher & Afeef Nessouli
Publication: The Intercept
February 9, 2026
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During the Security Conference, U.S. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that unconditional .S. to Israel enabled a genocide in Gaza.
At the opening of the Munich Security Conference a surprising coalition has come together to push for greater development aid. Federal Minister Reem AlabaliRad...
The Minister-President of SaxonyAnhalt, Sven Schulze (CDU), has called on Ukraine to conscript its young men into the national army and urged that workingage...
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At a gathering of Ukraine's partners in the Berlinformat, held on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, participants pledged a "new effort" to expan...
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Meanwhile, much of Europe and North America, , , , , and the Arab world have focused their attention on and heightened the level of their humanitarian .
Coalition to send aid from Canada to Cuba as concern over loved ones mounts
A coalition that works to strengthen ties between Canada and Cuba is preparing to send a shipping container of aid to Cuba in early March as the country faces a U.S. blockade that is causing an energy crisis.
Yale Insights: How Innovations in Understanding Everyday Data Can Power More Effective Aid . For a project in Bangladesh, Prof. Mushfiq Mobarak and his team used machine-learning models applied to mobile phone records to identify the poorest householdsfaster and at far lower cost than traditional surveys. As U.S. support for global data collection declines, Mobarak says, creative use of the
to Ukraine fell by 99% in 2025, leaving countries to fill the gap as nears the fourth anniversary of Russias full-scale invasion
European to increased by 67% in 2025, while and financial aid increased 59%, according to a report released by the Kiel Institutes Ukraine Support Tracker.
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The United Nations expressed deep alarm over the escalating attacks in Sudan, stating that air strikes are putting civilians at great risk and directly targetin...
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It's quite simple: wherever people are in need, they are exploited - Therefore, one should always be cautious when offering direct, personal assistance
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Tracking Aid Narratives - This briefing is part of a longer-term initiative for to examine how agency acceptance or rejection is expressed on
Online narratives following the looting of the Kurdish Red Crescent facilities
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Online responses to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (SARC) winter assistance
Data: Insecurity Insight