I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing Trump ally grilled by lawmakers over ‘terrible decisions’ on vaccines, public health and funding cuts to key programs

RFK Jr accused of ‘dangerous conspiracy theories’ at heated budget hearing
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Academics - how do you go through an inbox with three weeks of messages that have piled up? Looking for tips to manage the expected volume in an efficient and effective way.

And again

It’s so hard for me to imagine anybody with expertise in public health, or history, or technology, equating the public health impact of AI with VACCINES and SANITATION.

OMG: “The integration of AI into our systems, from predictive modeling to community health
engagement, is as significant as the development of modern sanitation or the expansion of vaccinations in the previous century.” I can’t… I just can’t. @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Devastating Sudan Hospital Attack Disrupts Medical Care, Deepens Humanitarian Crisis - Health Policy Watch Millions of civilians in East Darfur have lost their primary access to medical care following a hospital attack.

When hospitals are destroyed in conflict, people don’t just lose buildings—they lose access to lifesaving care.

Sudan’s crisis is escalating fast.

✍️ @fargonaut.bsky.social
@msf.ca @who.int

📖⬇️ and 🔁🙏

I get the impression a bunch of specialists out there would welcome the chance to have their convos recorded, analysed and to receive feedback on how they can improve in many dimensions.

Yours would be. The work dose will be high enough. 😊

Already more than 5,000 Australians have joined our campaign to release more funding for medical research in the 2026 Federal Budget.

If you can spare 30 seconds of your time to join our campaign, you’ll help fund life-saving cures in Australia.
www.moniqueryan.com.au/medical_rese...

The newly released WHO Full Value of Improved Influenza Vaccines Assessment (FVIVA) examines how next‑generation flu shots - offering broader, longer‑lasting protection - could affect health outcomes, economics, and policy.

tn21.org/FVIVA

My thoughts too.

Person in uniform walking through bush land.

Some news stores just get under your skin. Very sad to see the outcome of the Chris Baghsarian kidnapping today with his likely remains being found in Sydney. Appreciate all the efforts to try to find him, including SES (son searching yesterday buzzed by news helicopter).

As I’m, always, harping on. You owe no one your attention. You, particularly, don’t owe parasocial contacts your attention. There are ways to lessen your stress on social media and in online interactions, but, you must be proactive. Mute, block, move on, let it go. Your overall health will improve.

Just submitted my Research Handbook on Immunisation and Society to the publisher. A year in the making, this will be nice volume of contributions from leading authors when it comes out later this year. 😌 🎉

This is bad for public health.

Julie Leask on Vaccination Insights Discover insights from Julie Leask on how to tackle vaccine hesitancy.

Where Are We At With Vaccinations? Why people don't vaccinate - from the time of Jenner to now. My podcast interview with David Curnow. www.wawawpod.com/vaccinations/

Very cool

Using Social Media for Public Health Communication to Young People: A Qualitative Study to Inform Emergency Preparedness The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the role of social media for official health communication, especially for young people who rarely engage with other public health agency channels. This study expl...

✏️ How can we improve social media health communication with young people in the next big emergency?
 
Co-create messages for young people, with young people. 🤝
 
Study here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Trump blamed autism on this pain pill. Now, the gold-standard evidence is in Studies promoted by the US president have shown small associations between a common medication and autism. A new analysis checked those results.

www.smh.com.au/national/nsw...

Here’s the summer uptick in flu and COVID-19 in NSW from this weeks surveillance report. Quite unusual for influenza.
www.health.nsw.gov.au/Infectious/c...

Agree - calling it a CDC action is false.

CMS to stop requiring states to report childhood vaccination levels

The current US government is providing a Masterclass in how to lower vaccination coverage. Here’s another example - stop collecting useful data and sanctimoniously dog whistle anti-vax tropes. www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...

Cabinet papers 2005: John Howard’s government was warned in 2005 that schools and borders might need to be shut under a pandemic Alexander Downer told senior colleagues the H5N1 strain of bird flu could mutate into a pandemic ‘with potentially devastating consequences’ for Australia and the world * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Health officials warned the Howard government that Australia might need to close schools and shut international borders in the event of a global influenza pandemic, nearly 15 years before the arrival of Covid-19. Previously unreleased cabinet papers made public by the National Archives of Australia on Thursday show planning for an influenza pandemic reached all the way to the national security committee of federal cabinet in October 2005. The discussions, two years after the Sars viral respiratory disease spread across Asia, presaged much of the response as Covid-19 spread around the world. Continue reading...

Cabinet papers 2005: John Howard’s government was warned in 2005 that schools and borders might need to be shut under a pandemic

Breaking News: Tatiana Schlossberg, an environmental journalist and child of Caroline Kennedy, died at 35. She recently wrote of her battle with leukemia in The New Yorker. nyti.ms/4pjDWiz

Opinion | Trump’s War on Public Health Is a Battle to the Death The war on public health is a battle to the death.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The Trump administration had adopted policies condemning a sizable group of its core MAGA supporters — miners, firemen, manufacturing workers — to slow deaths from diseases that cut off their ability to breath,” Thomas B. Edsall writes.

There’s more to the measles comeback than misinformation Global Health Checkup: What's really driving measles, Kenya pauses aid deal, airplane pollution onboard

There’s more to mealses than misinformation. www.healthbeat.org/2025/12/18/g...

This is what hepatitis B vaccination is about.

If you’re into the Dunedin music scene of the ‘80s or just like rock docos, go see this one screening in Sydney over next three nights. #StraitjacketFits www.lifeinonechordfilm.com/blank-1-1?in...

Vaccine Committee May Make Significant Changes to Childhood Schedule

Comments by President Trump, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and some panelists suggest the committee is likely to delay hepatitis B shots and discuss revising the use of other vaccines.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/h...