🚨 New Publication Alert!
We’re proud to share a new article by our very own EMD faculty member @brianwahl.bsky.social, published in Pediatrics. The piece explores the sustained impact of USAID on global child health - and the urgent risks we face as US-funded aid operations undergo dramatic shifts.
🚨This article is a must-read on the potential #NIH revisioning.
The author was Jay Bhattacharya's co-lead of the Great Barrington Declaration. Both are on the journal editorial board, as is Martin Makary.
If implemented, this would completely dismantle the system as we know it.
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Bernie standing next to AOC holding a rally attendee’s baby with people taking pictures, laughing and smiling.
Timeline cleanse 🌞
A Lancet Editorial: “American chaos: standing up for health and medicine”
“...to care is an act not of weakness, but of strength.”
The Lancet response: bit.ly/4jRb5Av
Mysterious Illness In Congo Kills Dozens "Can't epidemiologists just learn to accept death without always asking 'how' and 'why?'" -Alejandro Corona, File Corrupter
Mysterious Illness In Congo Kills Dozens
theonion.com/mysterious-i...
And when we’re back in New Haven, we’ll remember 2024 🎶🎶
As we wrap up a year of remarkable growth and impact, we’re reminded of the power of linking science and society. Through innovation, collaboration, and the strength of our communities, we're creating a healthier, more equitable future.
Sharing our work expanding SARS-CoV-2 style tiled amplicon sequencing for whole bacteria genomes directly from clinical samples, showing examples with M.tb (>4 mb) and Strep pneumo (>2 mb).
Led by Chaney Kalinich, Freddy Gonzalez, & Seth Redmond
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
1. I feel like this is such obvious advice that it gets taken for granted & consequently no one says this to young scientists but READ PAPERS, read all the papers. As you move up in your career you will have less & less time to do this. Read everything that appeals to you not just in your field
Trust is the bedrock of all we do in public health. It has undeniably eroded in recent years for a variety of reasons. We have a lot to do to rebuild trust. To start, I would want to see #CEPH competencies focused explicitly on trust.
Text graphic says public health thank you day in blue.
Today is Public Health Thank You Day. To everyone in public health who does not hear this nearly enough: thank you. We admire your unwavering support for healthier societies. We see you, and we thank you — today and every day.
Sending virtual elbow bumps to you all!
#PHTYD
“We live in an old chaos of the sun.” - Wallace Stevens.
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I know hindsight is always 20/20, but trotting out the Cheneys and spamming people with text messages are really terrible strategies to win any election.
I am conflicted about moving from X to Bluesky. Can someone assuage my worries about being further factionalized and isolated from others of different political ideologies? Isn’t social media the problem causing these divisions, and not just the owner of the networks?
