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agilmer.bsky.social
Family Nurse Practitioner 🩺 Advocate for public health, equity, and justice 🌎 Boston College Alum ‘15, ‘19 🦅 Johns Hopkins DNP/MPH student 📚
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A very unfortunate event, especially since it's preventable. I don't believe the parents thought this would ever happen to their child when they chose not to vaccinate. #vaccinations #vaccine #PublicHealth #mtpol #mtleg apnews.com/article/meas...

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Yes, we do have health crises in this country. But demonizing, defunding, and dismantling the research institutions and agencies that are in place to protect and promote health is not the way. Their goal is not truly to make America healthy again. 🛟 #medsky

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Another power grab. This time for the arts.

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 24 days ago • 2167 comments

It isn’t a law. We don’t need to comply at this moment. I understand the fear of repercussions, but doesn’t that pale in comparison to the fear and vulnerability these kids have from the loss of healthcare? 🛟 #medsky

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

In a disgraceful act betraying millions of their own residents, Iowa, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming all write to oppose birthright citizenship.

submitted 28 days ago • 336 comments

Can’t believe we’re here. While this will make the work harder, we have to persevere and keep promoting science and public health. 🛟

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

The amount of harm this will do is unjust and inexcusable. 🛟

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A side effect from the past two weeks- people are talking about public health. Even clinicians sometimes fail to understand what public health truly is, that it isn’t only disease and data, but also prevention, promotion, and equity. Though it feels like shouting into a void, keep talking. 🛟

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

A dear friend sent this to me. It couldn’t have come at a better time. As a Christian who found vocation as a healthcare worker, who devoutly believes in equity, compassion, and advocacy, it pains me to see faith militarized towards hate. But I will continue to act, speak, and practice with love. 🛟

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Frightening. Save your printed materials. 🛟 medsky

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

“Temporarily pause all activities related to obligations or disbursement of all Federal financial assistance” means immediate, real life implications for Americans, impacting food assistance programs, financial aid, services for the unhoused, and more. How absolutely horrifying.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

I think some people hear “grants” and think that without them, scientists and government workers just have less stuff to play with at work. But grants fund salaries for students, academics, researchers, and people who work in all areas of public service. “Pausing” grants means people don’t eat.

submitted 35 days ago • 1661 comments

Deaths by overdose declined overall this past year however this trend does not tell the whole story, as Black and Native American populations are still affected by alarmingly high overdose deaths. We must focus on #HealthEquity and structural change within #PublicHealth

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Alarming. And certainly another reason we should be investing MORE in #publichealth instead pulling out of the @who.int and freezing health research

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

Local government matters.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Another unfortunate win for big tobacco. As a primary care provider at a university, I’m always counseling youth on the harms of these products. Menthol cigarettes and flavored tobacco disproportionately impact disparate populations, all while lining the pockets of corporations. We must do better.

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

For Elon Musk and Donald Trump, “government efficiency” means cutting programs like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, and veterans benefits. I’ve got a better plan. time.com/7209307/elon...

submitted 39 days ago • 157 comments

The ruling bars U.S. agencies from implementing the order to end birthright citizenship for children born to migrants in the U.S. temporarily or without legal status while the case is under review.

submitted 39 days ago • 53 comments

These actions against DEI initiatives are alarming and will set this country back in equity, progress, and overall success, like many of his executive actions thus far. Furthermore, the threat of action against employees who are doing their jobs should raise major red flags.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments