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As a former NIH K & CDC MARI* awardee whose work focused on Black and Latina cis and trans women w/ or placed @ risk for HIV, what is happening will disproportionately impact those of us who are already underrepresented in research because we tend to be more likely to do health equity research.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

RFK's promise of transparency and trust was always a lie. Ignoring the public is a way to silence critics and undermine health. 🩺 🛟

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I just have to say this for my own sanity: the vaccines worked! They worked incredibly well! They were an astounding breakthrough, spun up at remarkable speed, and stopped a brutal pandemic from being even worse! And the major outcome of that is their mothballing by an objectively pro-pandemic party

submitted 7 days ago • 6 comments

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submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

No child (or adult) should be dying of any vaccine preventable diseases in 2025 🩺 🛟

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

📢 Make it a goal to talk to 3 family members, friends, or strangers each week about how freezes on scientific progress & higher education will negatively impact people’s lives in a personal way (cancer tx, their kids college, etc). The general public needs to know why this matters.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

CDC shutters the PRAMS Program on maternal and Infant health. PRAMS is a federal data collection system designed to identify groups of women and infants at high risk for health problems that has been running since 1988 #ReproSky 🩺 🛟

submitted 10 days ago • 5 comments

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So ProPublica Did #ReproSky 🩺 🛟

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

There are no clear health benefits from having measles. I have looked. Don’t fall for this anthroposophic nonsense. Measles is a deeply unpleasant illness in the best of cases, and in the worst, life-altering or fatal.

submitted 13 days ago • 14 comments

That White House post that calls immigrants in shackles deportation footage 'ASMR' is truly appalling

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

BREAKING: Nonprofits sue over Trump's anti-diversity, anti-trans executive orders, alleging they violate the First Amendment & equal protection guarantees, are void for vagueness, exceed the president's authority, & violate the Administrative Procedure Act. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

submitted 15 days ago • 20 comments

Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now

submitted 15 days ago • 241 comments

Oder your COVID tests while you still can! special.usps.com/testkits

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

“At the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, two prestigious training programs were gutted: one that embeds recent public health graduates in local health departments and another to cultivate the next generation of Ph.D. laboratory scientists.”

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

Arielle Kane was an analyst at the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare.

submitted 18 days ago • 24 comments

A heartwarming story about the opioid epidemic and giving back to our communities. Barbara Kingsolver put the royalties from her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Demon Copperhead to work in the region it portrayed by starting a home for women in recovery. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/b...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

The Trump Administration was ordered by a court to restore specific CDC pages. The banner they added when they did this is both abhorrent and incorrect. 🩺 🛟

submitted 19 days ago • 3 comments

Sending much love and solidarity to all the public health workers who have been inexplicably fired from government agencies today. The world is far less safe as a result.

submitted 19 days ago • 7 comments

Please read this detailed breakdown of Trump actions that have come straight out of Project 2025. We tried to warn y'all about this. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

PSA that vaccines are one of the top 10 public health inventions that keep people alive.

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Tough day for science, data, and public health. We're all very worried because this is only the beginning.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Honored to speak w/ @melodyschreiber.com re: the impact of public health data + info being taken offline. “It’s the issue of ‘no data, no problem'...It almost allows the government to abdicate any responsibility, because they don’t have to act on anything..." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

www.chronicle.com/article/were...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Wow. The resistance worked quickly this weekend. Attorney Generals from 22 states sues Trump Administration for defunding medical and public health innovation research www.mass.gov/news/ag-camp...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Great 🧵 on what the new directive would mean for NIH funded labs, institutions, and communities #publichealth

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

“A sane government would never do this.” — the former dean of Harvard Medical School Universities are reeling. Elon Musk’s allies are celebrating. Looking at the major cut to federal research funding — which many scientists predict will be devastating With @lenasun.bsky.social and Carolyn Johnson

submitted 26 days ago • 61 comments

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

submitted 27 days ago • 8 comments

I'm watching to closely. Was the data removed because it was inaccurate? Too early to make these conclusions? Or for political reasons? 🧪 🛟

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

In interviews, scientists-who are forbidden by the terms of the stop-work order to speak with the news media-described agonizing choices: violate the stop-work orders & continue to care for trial volunteers, or leave them alone to face potential side effects and harm. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

Now would be a great time to allow CDC and FDA experts to, oh, I dunno, SPEAK FREELY.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 29 days ago • 1275 comments

APHA's Statement: America deserves better than RFK Jr "To effectively lead our nation’s top health agency, a candidate should have the proper training, management skills, temperament and the trust of the public. Unfortunately, Mr. Kennedy fails on all fronts" 🧪 🛟🩺

submitted 107 days ago • 2 comments

Five Ways R.F.K. Jr. Could Undermine Lifesaving Childhood Vaccines 🩺🧪 🛟 #HealthPolicy #PedsSky #MedSky

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Please call your senators and ask them to vote NO on this threat to public health

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Please call your senators and ask them to vote NO on this threat to public health

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Please call your senators and ask them to vote NO on this threat to public health

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Please call your senators and ask them to vote NO on this threat to public health

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The entire archive of all CDC datasets uploaded before January 28th, 2025 has been backed up on Internet Archive. Incredible work everyone. Science will never be silenced!

submitted 31 days ago • 68 comments

More government censorship of public health & science

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APHA's executive director Dr. Georges Benjamin wrote an op-ed regarding the potential confirmation of RFK Jr. for HHS, saying Kennedy is unqualified to be the nation's chief health officer. 🩺 🛟 www.statnews.com/2025/01/31/r...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This is a big deal, y'all. Federal health websites are being stripped of content or removed in their entirety. Stick with this thread for a look at what's disappeared so far! 1/x

submitted 33 days ago • 324 comments

The shuttering of public health data about trans people at the same time they're banning health care and threatening doctors who support trans people means it's not just censorship (though it's certainly that). It's an attempt to hide the evidence.

submitted 33 days ago • 7 comments

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

submitted 34 days ago • 166 comments

"A disclosure form filed for his nomination revealed that the outspoken vaccine critic pulled in roughly $10 million over the last year related to dividends from his vaccine lawsuits, anti-vax speaking fees, and leading Children’s Health Defense." newrepublic.com/post/190958/...

submitted 34 days ago • 3 comments