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Don’t have smallpox or polio? Thank the World Health Organization. For its many accomplishments: www.who.int/campaigns/75... Someone is feeling all powerful and can destroy orgs by defunding, so today, I’m asserting my (tiny) power by donating to @Who.int Alone we’re tiny, together we’re big.

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WHO continues to fight against misinformation and disinformation—a great challenge to global health. Governments, health agencies, and partners need to safeguard public trust by responding to misinformation and disinformation directly and effectively.

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Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

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Health of the world should never be reliant on any one country Global South governments must invest more in health and become less reliant on aid www.nytimes.com/2024/12/19/h...

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"I had classmates who came to school crawling, relying on crutches or specialized wheelchairs." A polio epidemiologist explains why he fights to prevent what he saw growing up. www.voicesforvaccines.org/a-polio-epid...

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In our latest episode of #SharedHumanity, Dean @meganranney.bsky.social answers the question, what is public health anyway? Dean Ranney and @nelbamg.bsky.social also discuss firearm injury as a public health issue and how they continue to find hope. Watch or listen at sph.yale.edu/SharedHumanity.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

It is looking increasingly likely the way global north countries are pushing climate change, is directly harming poverty reduction. We haven't properly grappled with how climate requirements are harming human capital, and how climate financing is taking money from poverty, health and education 1/n

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Aotearoa NZ set a global precedent in 2022 by moving to implement #tobacco endgame measures. These have since been repealed. This new commentary calls for "a return to evidence to ensure the continued improvement of public health and reduction of avoidable inequities." doi.org/10.1016/j.an... 🛟

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Happy International Migrants Day everyone! The first migration day was held on December 18, 2000, and was designed to draw global attention to the risk, status and contributions of migrants around the world, as well as the need to provide assistance to migrants in distress.

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OK, I had to try it! I gave ChattyG a few recent abstracts, my CV & bio, & links to my social profiles. Here's my #AcademicSky #roast, with my favorite part (guilty as roasted) highlighted:

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I have tried to outline a "capital theory of race" here. The paper's historical argument in a nutshell: "even though the panic over the “yellow peril” was coded in the language of insurmountable difference, that is, race, the social logic of that threat was one of equivalence, that is, capital."

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Egypt's recent certification as malaria-free by the WHO marks a significant public health achievement following nearly a century of efforts to eliminate a disease that has caused suffering and mortality since ancient times.

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How much does the fossil fuel industry fund medical research? Quite a lot actually. Read more here in last week’s @bmj.com. #MedSky #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Sustainability Link here: www.bmj.com/content/387/...

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A study shows that pre-existing distrust in public health systems, exacerbated by structural racism and inequalities, significantly impacted vaccine uptake in marginalised communities in #GreaterManchester. Read more here: bit.ly/4e3I28M

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www.goodnewsnetwork.org/infecting-ph... Congratulations to Egypt! This amazing effort in public health is a very #goodthing! #positivity #positivevibes

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Have you heard of Robert Rayford? He was the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. His story reshapes how we understand the epidemic and reminds us to fight for health equity.I encourage you to read this piece of #HIV history. A 🧵 #WorldAIDSDay2024 www.aidschicago.org/say-his-name...

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PEPFAR is estimated to have saved 25 million lives. Since it was launched by George W. Bush in 2003, it's always had bipartisan support. The first Trump admin launched the domestic Ending the HIV Epidemic initiative. Let's hope this doesn't end under the incoming Trump admin. #WorldAIDSDay #WAD2024

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We now have 4 separate #HCWvsHunger fundraiser sites. Proceeds go to Action Against Hunger or World Central Kitchen www.bonfire.com/healthcare-w... www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-... www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-... www.bonfire.com/hcwvshunger-... Now thru 12/3 spend $100 and get $10 gift card

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Despite encouraging progress in the global #HIV effort, the Sustainable Development Goal of ending HIV as a public health threat by 2030 is not on track. Ahead of #WorldAIDSDay, our latest Editorial explores the triumphs and threats of HIV in 2024. Read this & more in our new issue: bit.ly/4fL2ugz

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December 1 marks #WorldAIDSDay. It was started in 1988 by James Bunn and Thomas Netter, who were working with the Global Programme on AIDS, making it one of the very first "Days" related to global public health (after World Health Day - 1948 and World TB Day 1982).

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Oh wow! Potentially big news for the history of smallpox. Haoyue Zhao & Andrew Wilson have just posted their preprint of a study documenting osteomyelitis variolosa from Roman Britain. This bone condition suggests the presence of smallpox there in the 3rd/4thC. ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid... #histmed

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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

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www.theguardian.com/world/2024/n...

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On this day in 1778, HMS Resolution, captained by James Cook, became the first European vessel to land on Maui, Hawai'i. While this sparked a wave of "Polynesian fever" in an excited Europe, diseases brought by Cook's crew and subsequent ships devastated the local population over the next decades.

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