Neil Vora, MD
@conservationdoc.bsky.social
Physician. Epidemiologist. Conservationist. Brazilian jiu jitsu fanatic. Personal account (views my own).
🌍 New OpEd Alert! Biodiversity is not just an environmental issue — it's a health issue.
Yesterday, @cwalzer.bsky.social and I published an OpEd in @statnews.com calling for the health sector to confront a critical blind spot: biodiversity loss.
Yesterday, @cwalzer.bsky.social and I published an OpEd in @statnews.com calling for the health sector to confront a critical blind spot: biodiversity loss.
October 21, 2025 at 12:47 PM
🌍 New OpEd Alert! Biodiversity is not just an environmental issue — it's a health issue.
Yesterday, @cwalzer.bsky.social and I published an OpEd in @statnews.com calling for the health sector to confront a critical blind spot: biodiversity loss.
Yesterday, @cwalzer.bsky.social and I published an OpEd in @statnews.com calling for the health sector to confront a critical blind spot: biodiversity loss.
Jane Goodall was my first example of how a childhood love for nature could evolve into a lifelong purpose.
October 1, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Jane Goodall was my first example of how a childhood love for nature could evolve into a lifelong purpose.
Neil Vora Is on the 2025 TIME100 Next
Find out why Neil Vora is on this year’s list
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September 30, 2025 at 4:48 PM
While at a winestore in rural New York State this weekend, I happened to be wearing a t-shirt from my time in the U.S. Public Health Service. At checkout, one of the staff asked, “Does that even still exist?”
September 8, 2025 at 2:27 AM
While at a winestore in rural New York State this weekend, I happened to be wearing a t-shirt from my time in the U.S. Public Health Service. At checkout, one of the staff asked, “Does that even still exist?”
Jane Goodall has been my hero since childhood. In challenging times, I often turn to her for guidance—and that’s why I just read her "Book of Hope". It’s an incredible piece that reinforces for me that hope is not passive—it’s a discipline, a choice, and a call to action. 🧵
September 2, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Jane Goodall has been my hero since childhood. In challenging times, I often turn to her for guidance—and that’s why I just read her "Book of Hope". It’s an incredible piece that reinforces for me that hope is not passive—it’s a discipline, a choice, and a call to action. 🧵
What’s happening at CDC should concern all of us. Public health threats don’t care about politics or borders.
August 28, 2025 at 12:23 PM
What’s happening at CDC should concern all of us. Public health threats don’t care about politics or borders.
🌍 Exciting News for Global Health Professionals!
The Global Health Council (GHC) has launched an Individual Professional Membership—a fantastic opportunity to stay engaged in global health at a time when collaboration and informed advocacy are more critical than ever.
The Global Health Council (GHC) has launched an Individual Professional Membership—a fantastic opportunity to stay engaged in global health at a time when collaboration and informed advocacy are more critical than ever.
Individual Professional Membership
globalhealth.org
August 24, 2025 at 10:37 PM
🌍 Exciting News for Global Health Professionals!
The Global Health Council (GHC) has launched an Individual Professional Membership—a fantastic opportunity to stay engaged in global health at a time when collaboration and informed advocacy are more critical than ever.
The Global Health Council (GHC) has launched an Individual Professional Membership—a fantastic opportunity to stay engaged in global health at a time when collaboration and informed advocacy are more critical than ever.
This has been the hardest week I’ve had in a long time.
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August 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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I'm excited to be in the running to speak at #SXSW 2025 with @monicamedinadc.bsky.social on why human health depends on nature. If you could take a moment to vote in support of this proposal, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
🗳️ Vote by Aug 24: lnkd.in/em3MDMiC
❤️ Click the heart!
#OneHealth
🗳️ Vote by Aug 24: lnkd.in/em3MDMiC
❤️ Click the heart!
#OneHealth
August 13, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I'm excited to be in the running to speak at #SXSW 2025 with @monicamedinadc.bsky.social on why human health depends on nature. If you could take a moment to vote in support of this proposal, I'd greatly appreciate it! Thank you!
🗳️ Vote by Aug 24: lnkd.in/em3MDMiC
❤️ Click the heart!
#OneHealth
🗳️ Vote by Aug 24: lnkd.in/em3MDMiC
❤️ Click the heart!
#OneHealth
Just finished reading Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It’s one of those books that shakes up your assumptions about reality. 🧠🌌
August 6, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Just finished reading Biocentrism by Robert Lanza and Bob Berman. It’s one of those books that shakes up your assumptions about reality. 🧠🌌
Just finished "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green—and I can’t recommend it enough. As a TB doctor, I thought I understood this disease. But until I read this book, I hadn’t fully grasped just how deeply TB is woven into the fabric of our history, society, and even geography.
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July 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Just finished "Everything is Tuberculosis" by John Green—and I can’t recommend it enough. As a TB doctor, I thought I understood this disease. But until I read this book, I hadn’t fully grasped just how deeply TB is woven into the fabric of our history, society, and even geography.
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Over 100,000 people die from measles each year globally—a completely preventable tragedy. With U.S. cases rising, we risk losing our elimination status. I shared insights with @emilymullin.bsky.social / Wired magazine on what’s driving the outbreak.
www.wired.com/story/can-us...
www.wired.com/story/can-us...
Can US Measles Outbreaks Be Stopped?
The US almost lost its measles elimination status once. Lessons from that episode suggest it will be more difficult to avoid doing so now.
www.wired.com
July 16, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Over 100,000 people die from measles each year globally—a completely preventable tragedy. With U.S. cases rising, we risk losing our elimination status. I shared insights with @emilymullin.bsky.social / Wired magazine on what’s driving the outbreak.
www.wired.com/story/can-us...
www.wired.com/story/can-us...
Honored to work alongside so many committed colleagues. We can reduce spillover risk — and in doing so, we:
🌍 Prevent pandemics
🌱 Fight climate change
🦋 Protect nature
⚖️ Advance equity
The path forward is clearer than ever. Let’s act.
#OneHealth #SpilloverPrevention #GlobalHealth #ClimateAction
🌍 Prevent pandemics
🌱 Fight climate change
🦋 Protect nature
⚖️ Advance equity
The path forward is clearer than ever. Let’s act.
#OneHealth #SpilloverPrevention #GlobalHealth #ClimateAction
Some say it’s impossible to prevent spillovers.
But that’s not true.
Watch this video of Latiffah Hassan, Raina Plowright, and Neil Vora to learn how to reduce risk of spillovers and improve health of people, animals, and environment: tinyurl.com/2s4krbvu
Video credit: Climate Acceptance Studios
But that’s not true.
Watch this video of Latiffah Hassan, Raina Plowright, and Neil Vora to learn how to reduce risk of spillovers and improve health of people, animals, and environment: tinyurl.com/2s4krbvu
Video credit: Climate Acceptance Studios
July 11, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Honored to work alongside so many committed colleagues. We can reduce spillover risk — and in doing so, we:
🌍 Prevent pandemics
🌱 Fight climate change
🦋 Protect nature
⚖️ Advance equity
The path forward is clearer than ever. Let’s act.
#OneHealth #SpilloverPrevention #GlobalHealth #ClimateAction
🌍 Prevent pandemics
🌱 Fight climate change
🦋 Protect nature
⚖️ Advance equity
The path forward is clearer than ever. Let’s act.
#OneHealth #SpilloverPrevention #GlobalHealth #ClimateAction
A historic day! The Pandemic Agreement is adopted! 🌍✍️ This landmark achievement will make the world safer from future pandemic threats.
May 20, 2025 at 12:46 PM
A historic day! The Pandemic Agreement is adopted! 🌍✍️ This landmark achievement will make the world safer from future pandemic threats.
Check out my ode to reptiles in the LA Times. This Earth Day, may we all resolve to admire the exquisite variety of life on this planet; meet the strange and fearsome with curiosity; and remember that we are one small part of nature, rather than masters of it.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Contributor: Save the Earth's 'creepy-crawlies.' Some of them just might save us
1 in 5 reptile species is nearly extinct, and countless leads will die with them. ACE inhibitors, now being used for 30 million people, came from a pit viper.
www.latimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Check out my ode to reptiles in the LA Times. This Earth Day, may we all resolve to admire the exquisite variety of life on this planet; meet the strange and fearsome with curiosity; and remember that we are one small part of nature, rather than masters of it.
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
Loss of nature is promoting the spread of infectious diseases. I joined @lisapatel.bsky.social's Healthy Climate America podcast to discuss this and so much more--including why we should retain hope during challenging times. Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica
Healthy Climate America Podcast - The Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health (MSCCH)
Welcome to Healthy Climate America, a podcast from the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health.
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Loss of nature is promoting the spread of infectious diseases. I joined @lisapatel.bsky.social's Healthy Climate America podcast to discuss this and so much more--including why we should retain hope during challenging times. Listen here: bit.ly/HealthyClimateAmerica
Thrilled about this news out of the @who.int. If adopted next month, the pandemic treaty will leave us all safer. @alexandrafinch.bsky.social , @nschwalbe.bsky.social and I shared a few thoughts on this with the NY Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
WHO Member Countries Agree to Pandemic Treaty
The World Health Organization finally reached a compromise on a pandemic treaty after three years of talks. The United States withdrew from negotiations after President Trump took office.
www.nytimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thrilled about this news out of the @who.int. If adopted next month, the pandemic treaty will leave us all safer. @alexandrafinch.bsky.social , @nschwalbe.bsky.social and I shared a few thoughts on this with the NY Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/h...
One of my personal missions is to do what I can do bridge the divide in an increasingly polarized world—that’s why I wrote this essay for Men’s Health about jiu jitsu and what it can teach the US about community. I have hope during these difficult times.
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a644...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a644...
In a Divided America, I've Found a Surprising Community in Jiu Jitsu
There’s no quicker way to zip through the 'get-to-know-you' phase than trying to strangle each other.
www.menshealth.com
April 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
One of my personal missions is to do what I can do bridge the divide in an increasingly polarized world—that’s why I wrote this essay for Men’s Health about jiu jitsu and what it can teach the US about community. I have hope during these difficult times.
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a644...
www.menshealth.com/fitness/a644...
Sharing our new @thelancet.bsky.social piece on spillover prevention & #OneHealth in the WHO #PandemicAgreement. We call on states to adopt the agreement next month. Huge thanks to @alexandrafinch.bsky.social for leading this. Let's get this done and make the world a safer place! bit.ly/3E7RKeu
The promise and compromise of the WHO Pandemic Agreement for spillover prevention and One Health
As scientists, health professionals, and lawyers engaged in reducing pandemic spillover
risks, we recognise the urgent need for, and immense potential of, a robust international
agreement on pandemic ...
bit.ly
April 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Sharing our new @thelancet.bsky.social piece on spillover prevention & #OneHealth in the WHO #PandemicAgreement. We call on states to adopt the agreement next month. Huge thanks to @alexandrafinch.bsky.social for leading this. Let's get this done and make the world a safer place! bit.ly/3E7RKeu
Reposted by Neil Vora, MD
To safeguard against a pandemic of #H5N1 avian flu, @conservationdoc.bsky.social says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr should embrace his environmentalist roots—and capitalize on One Health practices to protect the public.
RFK Could Prevent a Bird Flu Pandemic—By Embracing His Environmentalist Roots | Think Global Health
Three steps Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. could take to strengthen the U.S. Department of Agriculture's recent bird flu plan
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:45 PM
To safeguard against a pandemic of #H5N1 avian flu, @conservationdoc.bsky.social says Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr should embrace his environmentalist roots—and capitalize on One Health practices to protect the public.
Thrilled that “One Health” is included in this @npr.org piece on global buzzwords for 2025. There is no human health, animal health, or environmental health—there’s just One Health.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
7 global buzzwords for 2025: From 'techquity' to 'climate displacement' to 'belonging'
What words will be buzzing about in the global health and development hive in the year ahead? Our experts have nominations for your consideration.
www.npr.org
January 14, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Thrilled that “One Health” is included in this @npr.org piece on global buzzwords for 2025. There is no human health, animal health, or environmental health—there’s just One Health.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Reposted by Neil Vora, MD
👇Must-read piece this weekend by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com and as you and your orgs consider year-end giving priorities.
As someone who has been on both the grantee and donor sides of the table, a few reflections: 🧵
As someone who has been on both the grantee and donor sides of the table, a few reflections: 🧵
December 7, 2024 at 5:12 PM
👇Must-read piece this weekend by @emmagoldberg.bsky.social @nytopinion.nytimes.com and as you and your orgs consider year-end giving priorities.
As someone who has been on both the grantee and donor sides of the table, a few reflections: 🧵
As someone who has been on both the grantee and donor sides of the table, a few reflections: 🧵
Thrilled that 196 governments have agreed that biodiversity is a key determinant of health. This Plan is the closest global agreement that there is on planetary health. My colleagues and I discuss this in the @thelancet.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Implementing the Global Action Plan on Biodiversity and Health
For the first time in the history of global biodiversity governance and global health
governance, countries negotiated and adopted a Global Action Plan on Biodiversity
and Health at the 16th Conferenc...
www.thelancet.com
December 2, 2024 at 7:51 PM
Thrilled that 196 governments have agreed that biodiversity is a key determinant of health. This Plan is the closest global agreement that there is on planetary health. My colleagues and I discuss this in the @thelancet.bsky.social: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
So fun to record this podcast for @mongabay.bsky.social! @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social and I go into pandemic prevention, and then move into the importance of storytelling and why we need more collaboration between scientists, artists, and philosophers. Cheers!
news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024...
news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024...
How nature protection and inspiring art are key to planetary health & preventing pandemics
Dr. Neil Vora is no stranger to dangerous diseases, as a former epidemic intelligence service officer with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Vora has deployed to nations like ...
news.mongabay.com
November 27, 2024 at 6:39 PM
So fun to record this podcast for @mongabay.bsky.social! @mikedigirolamo.bsky.social and I go into pandemic prevention, and then move into the importance of storytelling and why we need more collaboration between scientists, artists, and philosophers. Cheers!
news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024...
news.mongabay.com/podcast/2024...