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Bethany Hedt-Gauthier
@bhedtgauthier.bsky.social
Health systems researcher focused on health equity and collaborative equity.
Please join us for our next global surgery research seminar, March 13, 9-10:30am ET.

This month's topic: Telemedicine and Telesurgery.

More information: www.pgssc.org/researchsemi...
Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
March 6, 2025 at 7:16 PM
#inspired.

Please watch her speech, it really demonstrates that compassion makes effective leadership.

youtu.be/0i21cliuoXo?...
March 6, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?
NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research
Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs
www.science.org
February 28, 2025 at 4:06 AM
February 28, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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#Erasure
If you are silent I'm the face of this, it will not save or spare you. Whether we count them or not trans people have always existed and will always exist.
www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...
CDC will no longer process transgender data
The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.
www.statnews.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:28 AM
In a moment that feels upside down, I found this specific in guiding how I think and act anew when putting things right side up.

The fact that our “Stuck in the Middle” paper was referenced gave me a bit of courage.
In the latest #GlobalHealthMatters episode, @garryaslanyan.bsky.social  explores the balance of power and responsibility in the global health community with @seyeabimbola.bsky.social  ( @sydneyuni.bsky.social  ) & Hani Kim (the RIGHT Foundation). 🎧 Tune in now!👉 http://tinyurl.com/GHM-E44
February 26, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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Look at this leader. Lift her up.
Colorado's Rep Brittany Pettersen (D) flew cross-country with her one-month-old to vote against the GOP budget tonight. Dems ended up one vote short. Pettersen was part of an unsuccessful bipartisan push to allow new mothers to vote remotely. #copolitics
February 26, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Folks in red states need to flood their Senators offices, town halls, etc.

This fight for Medicaid isn’t only about health care, it’s about jobs (staff in hospitals, nursing homes, etc) and the future of rural and community hospitals.
This vote was to start the process of the cuts. It WILL come back for a final vote.

There are some chances to slow or potentially stop it. Need constant pressure on GOP

Focus on GOP swing seats & key committees. Energy & Commerce is where the Medicaid fight will go down. Ways&Means for tax fight.
@aoc.bsky.social
Please explain what just happened. Is there no way to stop this w the reconciliation to be used by GOP to get around the filibuster? Are we sunk?
February 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
My mom, a decade retired, still advocating for residents of long term care facilities. We’re lucky to have her.

www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/02/21/a...
‘Disheartening’ auditor report reflects experiences filing complaints about nursing homes
Auditors: Lack of timely inspections, follow-ups to complaints meant bad actors were able to get away with violating regulations.
www.northcarolinahealthnews.org
February 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Another school curtails admissions, even offers already made. This is on #Trump, #Musk and #Vought. Time to fight back. www.thedp.com/article/2025...
Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts
Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.
www.thedp.com
February 22, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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It’s a long past time that unions, professional and civic organizations, religious institutions, and all people of goodwill descend on DC and march to the White House. The question is who will lead this? What is happening now is madness.
February 15, 2025 at 1:41 AM
I remember several years ago when interviewed by a major news outlet in honor of this day...

The entire time, he asked me about how hard it was to be a woman in science (I have plenty of fodder). At the end, he said "anything to add?" to which I said "yes, don't you want to know about my science?"
who.int WHO @who.int · Feb 11
Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science.

Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize. Her contributions have left an indelible mark on the world of science & health & continue to inspire generations of scientists & innovators. 🔬 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM
February 11, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Please join us for our next Global Surgery Research Seminar - February 13, 9am EDT.

Register here: harvard.zoom.us/j/93213711174

Watch the last seminar ("Colonialism in Global Surgery") here: www.pgssc.org/copy-of-past...

@aaglobalsurgery.bsky.social @gendereqsurg.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 2:42 PM
**New Paper** In this paper, our team has demonstrated that a telemedicine intervention led by community health workers to provide home-based post-cesarean care is acceptable (even preferred) by patients and CHWs in rural Rwanda.

@partnersinhealth.bsky.social

doi.org/10.1186/s407...
February 6, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow.

When we look back at Trump’s impact on (global/public) health we’d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.
February 5, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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"The [hu]man [soul] dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
— Wole Soyinka 

They’ve tested us (global/public health) and we’ve consistently failed. It is death by a thousand cuts.

But our silence, our capitulation will not protect us. They have come for us knowing we have no soul.
February 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Interested in public health? Here are four Harvard-based opportunities for undergraduates to gain exposure and experience. 4 days left to apply.

my.reviewr.com/s2/site/Harv...
February 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr

This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.
January 30, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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Thanks to AmfAR for analyzing the effects of Donald J. Trump's Stop Work Orders for PEPFAR Programs.
January 28, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Could the arc of the moral universe be a little shorter please
January 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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Our paper «  Learning analysis of health system resilience «  is now available in full at the Health Policy and Planning” journal.
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social @Sarah Bernays

academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...
Learning analysis of health system resilience
Abstract. The emergence of ‘resilience’ as a concept for analysing health systems—especially in low- and middle-income countries—has been trailed by debate
academic.oup.com
January 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
After a year battling health issues, I’m so happy to back in Rwanda! Forgot how much I love being here. @partnersinhealth.bsky.social
January 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Meta ending its DEI programs, according to their HR: “Instead of equity and inclusion programs,” Gale wrote, Meta plans to build programs “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.”

Makes me think they didn’t understand DEI.
January 11, 2025 at 3:28 AM
I am very involved in my small town's politics, including an elected position, and it is wild to me how little people care about equity.

"Density is good - but not on my street." "My road repair is more important because of ...."

People have a hard time seeing beyond their neighborhood.
Just an FYI when talking about city/town budgets:
January 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM