BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

From Evidence to Power: Organizing for Public Health with Jon Shaffer, PhD Sociologist–organizer Jon Shaffer, PhD, joins Infectious Dose to explain why organizing—not just evidence—wins public-health protections, how DPH is building state teams, and what you can do next.

New podcast just dropped with our own @jonshaffer.bsky.social talking about public health organizing. You can check it out here!

Federal health workforce policy in Australia and its implications: a descriptive policy document review Objective To identify which federal health workforce policies are current in Australia, and describe their mode, scope, and focus. Study design Descriptive policy document review; categorisation a...

Our study shows: 81% of Australia's federal HWF policies are time-limited grants & programs, not long-term strategies.

W/out national coordination, workforce planning stays fragmented & patients feel the gaps.

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#HealthWorkforce #HealthSystem #AusPol

Australia has 120 health workforce policies. But with no national plan, we’re missing the big picture Australia is awash with policies, but not the kind that would fix the workforce crisis. Here’s what would work instead.

QN: Australia’s #healthworkforce is under strain: long waits, burnout, gaps in rural care. Calls for a national plan & national body keep resurfacing — but why?

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Autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the “3 Ps”: populism, polarization, and post-truth

This handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship

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Power dynamics and intersectoral collaboration for health in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review Abstract. Intersectoral collaboration (ISC) is a critical strategy in global health for addressing complex challenges requiring multi-sectoral engagement.

Great new analysis just out in #HPP 👉#Power dynamics and intersectoral collaboration for health in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review
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#PraveenkumarAivalli @dadasara.bsky.social #BrynneGilmore @daktre.bsky.social @aoifedb.bsky.social

RFK Jr. ousts entire CDC vaccine advisory committee Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on how to use vaccines.

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process.

So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel.

Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

List of the names of the 231 Palestinian, 3 Lebanese and 2 Israeli journalists killed covering Israel's genocide of Gaza since 7 Oct 2023

Of course, journalists in LA should not be targeted by police with rubber bullets. But let's not ignore the real issue of journalist safety

One lawsuit just helped melt the fossil fuel industry’s defence against being held accountable for climate change Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

www.thesaturdaypaper.com.au/share/20836/...

Interested in #health #HRH #healthworkforce policy in Australia and/or Asia Pacific?

Two #fullyfunded #PhD Scholarships available @jcuofficial.bsky.social working a NHRMC-funded program of research. See details attached.

Please share widely - applications due 30 June.

In the Wake of U.S. Cuts, African Leaders Advance Recommendations for a Sustainable HIV Response - Center for Innovation in Global Health Amid historic cuts to U.S. global health funding, Ministries of Health and AIDS Commissions from 11 African countries gathered in Malawi to chart a sustainable path forward for HIV prevention. Co-chai...

The #globalHIV response is at a cross-roads and African leaders are showing the way.

Sharing outputs from a convening of 11 countries

✅ Lancet HIV Viewpoint on sustainability & health systems
✅ Policy Brief endorsed by 60+ leaders
✅ Press release w. recommendations

Read more: shorturl.at/vFANi

"A message from Coca-Cola"

Hilarious

A growing group of pioneer governments are setting out how we can secure our common future by remaking international cooperation anew. This is how:

Gaza medics say Israeli strikes killed at least 53 people Gaza rescue teams and medics have said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 53 people, as the military issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of a planned attack.

Gaza rescue teams and medics have said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 53 people, as the military issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of a planned attack

Australia approves massive new gas export project - The Australia Institute In the middle of an election campaign with a major focus on gas exports, Australia has just approved another massive new gas export project.

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls renewables the “economic opportunity of the century” & our “pathway out of climate hell.”

Meanwhile, Australia approved the massively polluting Barossa Gas project.

Our research shows 71% of Aussies back 100% renewables, as is reality in the ACT.

Exploring supportive roles for global north investigators in global health research

Will Global North universities change their incentive & promotion structures in academia to recognize allyship work?

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🗓️ Mark your calendars!
#WHA78 is coming & this year again, join us & UN Foundation on May 18 for our annual #WHA #OpenBriefing at @gvagrad.bsky.social & online, where we will discuss "Critical Perspectives on Multilateralism in Global Health in 2025".

Details & registration 👉 bit.ly/wha78-briefing

Press Briefing: The Future of Climate Activism YouTube video by Covering Climate Now

Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at @coveringclimatenow.org with @amywestervelt.bsky.social John Paul Mejia and @theresariley.bsky.social, here you go: youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo

Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture Free online lecture with Mitchell Warren Recent, dramatic shifts in global health funding include cuts to US and UK foreign aid. This has had a cascade of devasting consequences on treatment and prev...

Invitation to a public @ox.ac.uk guest lecture on Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture

Delivered by Mitchell Warren, director of AVAC.

Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30 UK time.
More information and sign-up link here: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...

This.
This is how authoritarianism works.
Not hyperbolic, just that I did a PhD in comparative politics and it’s this.

IT'S WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK. Investments in health workers deliver returns — could contribute US$12 trillion to global GDP in 2040. It's time to protect, value, and invest in health workers — our most valuable health resource. #WHWWeek #healthworkerssavelives

Unraveling Management Management is everywhere. Schools teach it and professional organisations counsel about it. Books and articles are written for managers and about them. Management is usually understood in terms of sty...

I am very happy to see that this edited volume on the #anthropology of #management is out. Given that management is one of the defining #governance ideas of our time, this should be fun to read & teach with. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

CDC is pulling back $11B in Covid funding sent to health departments across the U.S. “Now that the pandemic is over, the grants and cooperative agreements are no longer necessary," federal health authorities wrote to funding recipients this week.

Times are going to get hard — harder — for public health departments. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

How reflexive catastrophizing inhibits policy imagination in African states On the need for a grounded understanding of contemporary challenges and progress in African states

“Instead of current crisis forcing (us) 2 confront real risks of aid dependency & consider future w. diminished aid dependency, tendency has been to huddle around proverbial camp-fires & share narratives of catastrophe…to justify maintaining status-quo.”
www.africanistperspective.com/p/how-reflex...

We are learning the wrong lessons from lockdown And unless we learn the right ones, we risk making the same mistakes in a new pandemic

Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight.

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Collections as Relations | Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Herita This book explores anthropological and global art collections as a catalyst, a medium, and an expression of relations. Relations—between and among objects and

New #OpenAccess book alert! 📚✨
“Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures” edited by
@hdilger.bsky.social, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze & Alexis von Poser.

👉 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

#Antrhopology

CALL FOR PAPERS – HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING SUPPLEMENT Changing Health Systems: Advancing Justice and Sustainability through Research, Policy and Practice Lead Editors: Kabir Sheikh (University College London

**CALL4 PAPERS – HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING**

🌟Changing Health Systems: Advancing Justice and Sustainability through Research, Policy and Practice

👉 Submissions due: 23 May

Eds: #KabirSheikh @globalstopp.bsky.social @daktre.bsky.social #EleanorWhyle #NehaBatura

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It's time to reimagine a health system that works for everyone and prioritizes primary care and prevention of disease and health generation. The role of aid should be reexamined- a catalyst, an aid to a functional system, not the mainstay of that system