HONOLULU (Island News) – Hawaiʻi has joined California, Oregon and Washington in forming the West Coast Health Alliance, a multi-state partnership, they say, will aim at providing residents with consistent, science-based public health guidance.

The alliance was created in response to concerns about federal leadership, particularly recent shakeups at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The four states said their goal is to ensure recommendations on vaccines and other public health issues are rooted in safety, efficacy and transparency — not politics.

“Hawaiʻi is proud to stand with our West Coast partners to ensure public health decisions are grounded in science, not politics,” Governor Josh Green said in a joint statement with governors from the other alliance states. “

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