fifarahman.bsky.social
PhD and global health wonk. Principal Consultant, http://matahari.global. Internationalist & humanist. 🇲🇾🇵🇸 🌍
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The little kid would probably have the most empathy out of the three!
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He’s one to talk after financing and facilitating a genocide.
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… and I think the path to preparedness is not a kind of look out for the bogeyman, you versus us approach - but let’s work together all of us to ensure robust multisectoral pathogen surveillance, among other things, is achieved.
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I’ve been wondering to what degree this kind of language is useful. My first instinct was, well that’s a very American way to say things. Perhaps even a very Hollywood way to saying things…
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“They already had massive problems with disinformation during the last pandemic — without the WHO they will need copious amounts of luck in the next one,” she said.”
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Torrid time for global health given current politics - but so many people continuing to fight the good fight.
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Something BRICS could probably think about.
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I wonder if we need something similar for those who are likely to become major leaders and influencers in the West, to prevent them from so wantonly slaughtering brown people.
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Link doesn’t work?
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Day Two: @matiangai.bsky.social talks about the need to, particularly in this time of a move away from multilateralism, to harness the self-interest of countries to move the needle - pathogens will continue not to respect borders.
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Day Two: @matiangai.bsky.social talks about the need to, particularly in this time of a move away from multilateralism, to harness the self-interest of countries to move the needle - pathogens will continue not to respect borders.
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Very cool innovations utilised at Institut Pasteur du Cambodge presented by @eakarlsson.bsky.social - drones and remote control cars to collect environmental samples at locations that are high risk for avian influenza.
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Mary Choi from U.S. CDC describes a Marburg case from symptom onset to death and steps following including contract tracing.
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Interesting slide from Vincent Munster from National Institutes of Health on spatial connection and impacts on Ebola, and how when a high quality road was built by China it was possible to reach affected areas quicker. Lipsitch also emphasises the need for decentralised diagnostics.
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Paul Friedrichs from the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy expresses concern at incoming actors from the next U.S. Administration that believe that the way to prevent zoonotic spillover would be to do less research, not more.