George Will, conservative columnist for Washington Post, wrote about the troubling impacts of the sequester on public health, and in particular the cuts on the programs of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). He did not discuss the NIH constrictions on the international side of public health endeavors, but they are just as devastating.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-will-the-sequester--a-public-health-hazard/2013/08/16/4bb96982-05ca-11e3-9259-e2aafe5a5f84_story.html?hpid=z2