More than 750 public health workers sent a letter to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Wednesday, urging him to “stop spreading inaccurate health information” and guarantee employees’ safety, in the wake of a shooting at the headquarters of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) earlier this month.

The letter—signed by both named and anonymous current and former staffers at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), CDC, and National Institutes of Health who noted they signed the letter in their “own personal capacities”—said the attack on the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta on Aug. 8 “was not random.”

“The attack came amid growing mistrust in public institutions, driven by politicized rhetoric that has turned public health professionals from truste

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