14. Department of Health and Human Services · Major · Needs Congress
Create a national epidemiological agency required by law to publish all data
Not started
Printed page 453 14. Department of Health and Human Services
“We need a national epidemiological agency responsible only for publishing data and required by law to publish all of the data gathered from states and other sources.”
What has happened
- Not started
No bill creating a data-publishing epidemiological agency has been introduced in the 119th Congress, and no executive reorganization has created one. HHS's 2025 restructuring moved in the opposite direction, consolidating divisions rather than adding a stand-alone data agency.
No action found yet. This entry is the starting point, not a finding.
Research log
What was searched, and what didn’t count as evidence
Research notes
- Negative searches run 2026-08-27: bill titles among those we keep and search, from congress.gov, mentioning epidemiology, public health data or health statistics — 0 hits; bill titles mentioning the Centers for Disease Control or CDC — 5 hits, none creating an agency (H.R. 87 Protecting Our Children from the CDC Act, H.R. 9820 / S. 5056 CDC Tribal Public Health Security and Preparedness Act, S. 2109 Dyess CDC Addition Design Authorization Act, S.Res. 848 celebrating CDC’s 80th anniversary). Federal Register full-text “Administration for a Healthy America” since 2025-01-20 — 0 documents; the HHS reorganization was announced by press release, not in the Federal Register.
- The HHS restructuring announcement of 2025-03-27 (https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-restructuring-doge.html) is a lead: the page refused to open for us.
- Action
- create
- Object
- national epidemiological agency
- ID
- 1208