Saturday @ @cughnews.bsky.social Conference:
How to Respond to a Shifting Global Health Landscape
Int'l Ballroom East
5:00-6:30 PM
Global health is undergoing rapid, disruptive change. This panel explores how universities, governments & organizations are adapting to this new global health landscape.

Public health takes center stage in US midterm campaigns: ‘It’s already been politicized’ Some candidates are making public health a central part of their midterm campaigns amid Trump’s war on science

“Public health needs to be a higher priority," said @drpanmd.bsky.social. “I know people get really nervous that this will politicize public health. But it’s not been a priority. And it’s already been politicized.” my latest:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

N.Y.U. Professors Reach a Deal on a Contract to End Strike After 2 Days

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

Gosh, perhaps there are fewer campus protests because schools, as The Atlantic urged them to do, aggressively went after protestors. Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge.

Tense Start To Final Pandemic Agreement Talks As Africa Rejects New Draft Text - Health Policy Watch Tension was palpable at the start of the sixth – and supposedly final – round of talks on an annex to the Pandemic Agreement, with the African region

🌍 Tensions are rising at final pandemic accord talks. African nations have rejected the draft, warning it fails on equity and access.

✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social
@who.int @euatun.bsky.social #GlobalHealth
#PandemicPreparedness #HealthEquity #GlobalHealthPolicy

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We're looking for a program director for Salus Populi, which trains judges and lawyers about the social determinants of health and their relationship to the judicial system. JD required. Spread the word! Salus Populi Program Director Position -
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NIH Scientists Issue ‘Bethesda Declaration’ to Protest Research Politicization In an open letter, researchers and staff at the National Institutes of Health raise concerns over recent policy changes.

🧪Everyone needs to know that the Bethesda Declaration is and why it is important.

www.the-scientist.com/nih-scientis...

www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...

Inspired to work with @judithmesquita.bsky.social & Sharifah Sekalala in developing our AJIL Unbound essay — examining human rights limitations in @who.int law reforms & analyzing the imperative to strengthen human rights obligations to ensure global health equity.
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🌍 New AJIL Unbound Symposium
Global Health at a Crossroads – Part II is now live from the American Journal of International Law.

Read Part II 👇
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

WHO Pandemic Agreement is only the beginning: strengthening implementation to protect global health.
Here is a mind-map of the pathways forward for the Pandemic Agreement outlined (Box 2). Full article: www.bmj.com/content/392/...
@benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social @jocalynclark.bsky.social @bmj.com

South Carolina Hospitals Aren’t Required to Disclose Measles-Related Admissions. That Leaves Doctors in the Dark. Physicians across South Carolina, home to the largest measles outbreak in decades, are advising patients without the benefit of real-time data on hospitalizations due to measles-related pneumonia, bra...

“Early in his career, Dr. William Schaffner, a professor at Vanderbilt University…worked with the CDC to implement the measles vaccine. When he tells medical students today that in the 1960s, before the measles vaccine, 400 to 500 kids died of measles & its complications each year, “They’re stunned”

A privilege to work with Joe Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot on the Global Council on Inequality, AIDS & Pandemics.

Please read & amplify their call to action in Project Syndicate, to get world leaders to tackle inequality to keep us all safe.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

US EPA Stops Regulating Climate Pollution - Says It's Not A Health Concern - Health Policy Watch The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has eliminated the scientific finding that determined planet warming gases also harm human health.

🚨The US EPA says climate pollution is no longer a public health issue — and moves to stop regulating greenhouse gases.

☠️A major legal and policy shift with global health consequences.

@cleanairfund.bsky.social @thelancet.com @wmo-global.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

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Once more: Columbia could have fought; it chose not.

Exit of CDC’s acting director highlights agency’s lack of leader The lack of a Senate-confirmed leader is deepening the turmoil at the CDC.

#CDC has had a full-time director for less than a month in Trump 2.0. People watching the situation think it's unlikely there will be another Senate-confirmed CDC director in this term.
With Jim O'Neill's firing, it doesn't have an acting director either. www.statnews.com/2026/02/15/c...

Next UN Secretary-General Should Champion Rights United Nations member countries will select a new UN secretary-general this year to succeed António Guterres in January 2027.

🚨 New from @hrw.org: #UN member states should select a champion of #HumanRights as the next UN Secretary-General as the UN faces a crisis amid a global retreat on rights & democracy. - by Widad Franco

Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks.

Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

Four States Sue Administration Over Loss of Public Health Funds

BREAKING: Four states led by Democrats sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, aiming to halt deep cuts in federal public health funds that had already been allocated.

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/h...

Oh man, the amount of buzzwords in this… It is hilarious to see this introduced as a “data-driven quest” before the actual text of the article acknowledges: “The safety gains are difficult to quantify.” (Are there even any safety gains at all? It’s not clear to me.)
@profgoldberg.bsky.social

Fossil fuel firms may have to pay for climate damage under proposed UN tax Framework Convention on International Tax Cooperation could also force ultra-rich to pay global wealth tax

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show cements Latinidad in the mainstream | Opinion Emblazoned on the jumbotron behind Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl 60 halftime show were the words 'THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.'

Opinion: Emblazoned on the jumbotron behind Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl 60 halftime show were the words 'THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.'

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines?

DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines

BASH: Oh, come on

How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.

Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.

A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Has the U.S. Actually Withdrawn from the World Health Organization? International law experts analyze the purported US withdrawal from the WHO and conclude it is likely not binding under international law.

Brilliant legal analysis by my friend Larry Helfer (UN Human Rights Committee member & a law prof who co-directs Duke’s Center for International and Comparative) & Jean Galbraith, Law Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School

www.justsecurity.org/129914/us-wi...

Documented measles cases in the US

2024: 285
2025: 2,276
2026: 730+ (through Feb 6)

while new documents obtained by @rcfp.org contradict RFK Jr's testimony to Congress about the purpose of his trip to Samoa amidst a deadly measles outbreak.

bsky.app/profile/rcfp...

Newborn dies after mother drinks raw milk during pregnancy Raw milk is promoted by anti-vaccine Health Secretary Kennedy.

Remember when Emily Oster said listeria isn’t a big deal?

“A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

It is time for a World Health Assembly resolution on global health architecture reform - LSE Global Health Ahead of this week’s World Health Organization (WHO) Executive Board meeting, Dr Arush Lal (Visiting Fellow, LSE Health) argues for the adoption of a resolution to support coordination of fragmented g...

What began as a crisis of resources now risks becoming a crisis of direction for global health governance.

My latest op-ed argues for the World Health Assembly to initiate a time-bound, member state-led process to unify fragmented global health architecture reforms.

blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...

New Mexico warns against consuming raw milk after newborn dies from listeria While the New Mexico Department of Health said it cannot pinpoint the baby's exact cause of death, officials believe it could have been linked to the mother drinking raw milk during pregnancy.

Quacks who promote raw milk conveniently omit the many infectious pathogens it can contain. Some of these cause infections so severe they can lead to death.
Raw milk has no unique health benefits > pasteurized milk but it sure can make you sick.
Don't drink it!
www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Come be my colleague @dukesanford.bsky.social!

I'm chairing this search for the inaugural Rosen Family Professor of the Practice--an experienced scholar-practitioner--and am happy to field questions via the email in the job post.

More details in the posting below 👇👇👇

Europe has greater responsibility in the WHO without the United States The US’s withdrawal from WHO makes Europe the system stabiliser in global health multilateralism, writes Ilona Kickbusch At the upcoming executive board meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO...

🇺🇳 Opinion: ‘Europe has greater responsibility in the World Health Organization without the United States’ - Writes Professor Ilona Kickbusch in @bmj.com

‘Europe must become a proactive system stabiliser as the principal guarantor of @who.int ’s operational continuity’

www.bmj.com/content/392/...