Office of Global Health Affairs

Bush Aide Blocked Report
Global Health Draft In 2006 Rejected for Not Being Political
Bush administration wanted political twist in scientific documents

By Christopher Lee and Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writers
July 29, 2007

A surgeon general's report in 2006 that called on Americans to help tackle global health problems has been kept from the public by a Bush political appointee without any background or expertise in medicine or public health, chiefly because the report did not promote the administration's policy accomplishments, according to current and former public health officials.