And it’s largely run by Christian (nationalists?)!

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/u...

Trump Administration Slashes Research Into L.G.B.T.Q. Health (Gift Article) More than $800 million in N.I.H. grants canceled as of early May — nearly half of those terminated to date — covered the health of sexual and gender minority groups, The Times found.

Everyone I know working in LGBT health has lost funding for important research on LGBT health.

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Most Anticipated Book Club Picks of Summer 2025 - She Reads What’s our summer plan at She Reads? Sun, maybe a [...]

Fun to see THE SLIP on She Read’s Most Anticipated Book Club Picks of Summer 2025 🥊🙏🥊

The FDA fired its tobacco enforcers. Now it wants them back. The agency asked laid-off workers to return after gutting the office that penalizes stores for selling tobacco to minors.

The FDA is asking laid-off employees to temporarily return after mass cuts decimated the agency’s ability to penalize stores that sell cigarettes and vapes to minors.

Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ The Office on Smoking and Health at the CDC is no more, putting state quitlines and national data on youth tobacco use at risk.

Why CDC cuts are being called ‘the greatest gift to tobacco industry in the last half-century’ www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c... via @statnews.com

Word cloud (minus Columbia U) of terminated grants as per taggs.hhs.gov/content/data...

Just going to leave this here.

Time to revisit some important papers…

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Opinion | Trump’s Shameful Campaign Against Transgender Americans Trump’s attacks on trans people are on the wrong side of history and humanity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/o...

New Lancet editorial today: “This moment is a test. How should our community react? …The health, medical, and scientific communities have a vital role in advocating for their patients, defending programmes, and lobbying for policies and institutions that are good for health and wellbeing.”

Internet Devices and Internet Access Among Migrant and Seasonal Farmworkers, North Carolina, 2023 - Joseph G.L. Lee, Mary Roby, Leslie E. Cofie, Catherine E. LePrevost, Emery L. Harwell, Elisabeth C. ... Objectives: Migrant and seasonal farmworkers work in rural areas where internet access may be limited. We assessed internet access, cost of access, and devices ...

Proud of our new paper showing internet access for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in NC in Public Health Reports. ~1 in 4 do not have consistent internet access.

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