One of my first thoughts too.

Tuolumne Falls, just us and the waterfall. Highly recommend getting out into the backcountry (no cell service here, also a great perk)

Tuolumne, Yosemite National Park

I'm really glad that we were able to start testing wastewater in 40 states for measles this week. I often get the chance to be the face of our work (see below!) and it's such a privilege to represent the whole team of talented and incredibly dedicated folks at Emory, Stanford, and Verily + more.

Things I’m tired of hearing: “this is a great opportunity for us to reflect on our priorities as we learn how to do more with less.” Public health has always been a lean field. We don’t have low priority things to jettison. We can always become better but relentless cuts are not an opportunity.

One might say WE gift a lot of innovation and progress to our country/world with our work!

SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

I highly recommend forgetting about your problems for a while by giving yourself other problems (running a half marathon). Pictured: runners high!

It seems to be going in and out? It’s freaking me out.

I agree. I have elementary age kids and the thought makes me feel sick.

86 kids have also died of influenza this flu season so far.

Parents, by and large, do their best to keep their kids safe, healthy, and happy. I’m so sad to hear that a child died of measles today, and that they were unvaccinated. Parents making these decisions are also often victims of powerful people who spread falsehoods for their own benefit. It’s tragic.

It was really heartwarming! Many employees leaving for the day were clearly very emotional at the show of support.

We grabbed our kids and got down in the basement last night after our phone alerts and city tornado siren went off around 4:30 am, and one of the first things I thought of as I handed my scared 5 yo to my husband was how much we are screwed if these public safety services are privatized.

Trans people do not cease to exist based on ctrl+f and delete. This is so deeply and unnecessarily cruel.

This is something that I find especially frustrating about all the recent cuts - USAID, NIH, etc. These aren’t just costs the federal government. They are INVESTMENTS that have returns. We are losing a lot and saving very little.

Thursday evening for the true fans in the know!

Omg. I think that is the goal and this will do it.

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Go Abby!

To be more specific, they wanted me to craft a head out of construction paper and have this head have speech bubbles added to it each day to tell the facts but I don't have that kind of artistry in me.

I'm doing this cute thing where each day of Feb I add a heart to my kids' doors with something I love about them on it. Adorable, right? When I asked how they liked it my 5 yo said "Mom, this is also Black History Month!" and now the kids want me to also put a #BHM fact a day on the door. Brilliant!

Oh no this is my reminder that my kids want to see this and (against my will) I better plan to take them.

This is not only an attempt to erase entire groups of people, it hobbles all work of public health if we can’t study how fundamental parts of human life - sex AND gender - impact health. This esp impacts not just trans people, but all women bc of a lack of focus on health issues specific to women.

Gender is an extremely common & important variable used in public health studies. And no, not just biological sex (which we can’t talk about, apparently?) because our biology and our society both impact our health greatly. Are we going to be prohibited from studying age next? It’s that fundamental.

CDC’s mission says “As the nation's health protection agency, CDC saves lives and protects people from health threats.” Apparently this only applies to some people - bc this isn’t just mentioning terms, it’s studying and helping huge populations! This grossly undercuts CDC’s role in public health.

People say “don’t worry a lot of this is just temporary.” Okay - but a lot of it is not! Removing information on health of marginalized groups is something to very much worry about. And stuff that’s gone temporarily isn’t temporarily unimportant. We rely on this public health data & infrastructure.

CDC removes gender, equity references in public health material Large sets of data are being scrubbed of references to transgender and LGBTQ people, among others, which could compromise their use in research

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention removed or edited references to transgender people, gender identity and equity from its website Friday, racing to meet a late-afternoon deadline imposed by the federal Office of Personnel Management.

Cookie dough is a longtime fave as long as they don’t skimp on the cookie dough part! Love Ben & Jerry’s for that and much more! Also a big fan of Jenni’s brambleberry crisp which has a cookie dough vibe with the crisp part.

I’ve already had ice cream twice this week, thinking of cracking open another pint!