Three CUNY SPH faculty selected for 2025-26 Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy For the first time in the school’s history, three CUNY SPH faculty members have been selected for Fulbright U.S. Scholar awards. Distinguished Professor Denis Nash and Associate Professors Karen…

🎓🌍Three #CUNYSPH faculty have been awarded 2025-26 #Fulbright U.S. Scholar grants! Distinguished Professor @denis-nash.bsky.social and Associate Professors Karen Flórez & Sean Haley will advance global research and education through this prestigious program. cunysph.me/Fulbright2025

@denis-nash.bsky.social, Executive Director @cunyisph.bsky.social has been selected for the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award for 2025–26 to work with colleagues in France on the population health impacts of climate change and other large-scale exposures. cunyisph.org/denis-nash-i...

It's always great to be on @thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social talking with one of the few public health-trained media folks I know. We covered cancelled NIH grants, what it means for @cuny.edu, implications of FDA's new COVID vaccine authorization, and the new MAHA report: www.wnyc.org/story/cuny-f...

Today:
- Call Your Senator, with NJ Sen. Andy @kim.senate.gov
‪- @denis-nash.bsky.social on the loss of federal research funding at CUNY,
- Katie Thornton on @onthemedia.bsky.social's 'Divided Dial' series

Live at 10 on 93.9 FM, AM820 or @wnyc.org

CUNY's Research on Vaccine Misinformation Halted by Trump Administration Sixty other CUNY projects have also received stop-work orders from the National Institute of Health, according to a letter from the chancellor.

💉🛑NIH halted funding for a CUNY SPH study on vaccine misinformation. #CUNYSPH Professor @denis-nash.bsky.social shares how this decision disrupts vital work—and why public health researchers will keep pushing forward. @thecity.nyc
🔗cunysph.me/VaxMisinformation
#VaccineMisinformation #PublicHealth

8/8 As a former EIS officer, CDC employee, and taxpayer, I want to extend my deepest gratitude and condolences to the CDC employees who were recently and callously let go. Your service and dedication to your country and to public health have been invaluable.

7/8 At this point in time, the U.S. should be thinking and talking about how best to move forward with sustained investment in public health infrastructure at the CDC, state, and local levels. Weakening these systems will cost lives.

6/8 Emerging threats—like the bird flu panzootic—underscore the need for strong, coordinated public health systems. Preparedness is about ensuring the right people, data collection, surveillance systems, labs, and response mechanisms are in place before the next emergency.

5/8 I also had a chance to speak with @cbsmornings.bsky.social about how CDC's EIS officers respond to public health emergencies and why sustained investment in outbreak detection and response systems is essential. t.co/2OU74I1l5C

4/8 I shared these and other thoughts in a recent @statnews.com op-ed, highlighting why programs like EIS are critical to national and global health security.

🔗 Read more: t.co/ndTmNQaGnb

3/8 Without them, and the cadres of other talented and committed staff at CDC, the U.S. risks slower outbreak detection, delayed cause identification and responses, and avoidable deaths.

2/8 EIS officers—also called “disease detectives”—are often on the front lines of outbreak response. They help CDC investigate emerging health threats. They help to prevent and stop epidemics and pandemics.

1/8 🌎 First post on BlueSky!

The U.S. needs to be focused on strengthening public health infrastructure-not dismantling it.

CDC’s EIS program was spared from cuts this time, but that its fate was ever in question raises serious concerns about the future of our public health response systems. 🧵👇