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João Madeira
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MD / Health Policy @EC_HERA (#HealthUnion) | I changed the bird for the sky | Views are mine | He/Him 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 #PublicHealth #GlobalHealth
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João Madeira @joaoqmadeira.bsky.social · Nov 28
A mix of politics, comms, science, and overall profiles I find interesting, focusing on EU Health 🩺🇪🇺

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Europe’s independence moment or the long road to agony?
Europe’s independence moment or the long road to agony?
This year’s SOTEU was the perfect opportunity to launch a bold new vision for Europe. Instead, we were offered the status quo with a lick of fresh paint. No political vision, just a shopping list of policies
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September 16, 2025 at 6:28 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🚨 The @ec.europa.eu has just published its #MCM & #Stockpiling Strategies!

Proud to have contributed. Big step for 🇪🇺 health security, contributing to both EU competitiveness & security.

Aligns with #LifeSciences Strategy and upcoming #BiotechAct & #InnovationAct.

🔗 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
EU Stockpiling and Medical Countermeasures Strategies to strengthen crisis readiness and health security
The European Commission launches today two initiatives under its Preparedness Union agenda: an EU Stockpiling Strategy and a Medical Countermeasures Strategy. Both are designed to improve access to es...
ec.europa.eu
July 11, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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jeremymberg.bsky.social
New powerful article up in the New York Times on cancelled and delayed grants

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Here Are the Nearly 2,500 Medical Research Grants Canceled or Delayed by Trump (Gift Article)
Some cuts have been starkly visible, but the country’s medical grant-making machinery has also radically transformed outside the public eye.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
The EU is shaping its #LGBTIQ+ Equality Strategy for 2026-2030, aiming to strengthen rights and combat discrimination across Europe 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈

Your voice matters 📢

Join the public consultation to help build a more inclusive future: ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

#Equality #Inclusion #HaveYourSay #IDAHOT
May 16, 2025 at 8:40 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Have your say on the future of biotech in Europe 🧬🇪🇺

The EU is shaping a new Biotech Act to boost innovation and ensure responsible use of biotechnology.
Public consultation is now open:
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...

#EUConsultation #Biotech #Innovation #SciencePolicy #HaveYourSay
May 15, 2025 at 1:30 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Today is World Hand Hygiene Day 🖐️🧼

Clean hands are your first line of defense — preventing the spread of bacteria and viruses alike. Protect yourself and others with every wash.

#HandHygiene #InfectionPrevention #StopTheSpread #WorldHandHygieneDay
May 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Charlemagne’s realm is a place of many flaws, lots of them enduring. But in their own plodding way, Europeans have created a place where they are guaranteed rights to what others yearn for: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

📰🔗 www.economist.com/europe/2025/...
www.economist.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:57 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Have your say on the future of EU health security 🛡️

The EU is shaping a new Medical Countermeasures Strategy to boost vaccines, diagnostics, PPE & more.

⏰ Help design it — share your views before 9 May!

Speak up here: europa.eu/!C7nKbc

#EUHealth #PreparednessUnion #HealthSecurity #HERA

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April 12, 2025 at 12:08 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Me travelling to Asia at 21: I'll just go raw in jeans
Me travelling to Asia at 28: chewing gum, sleep mask, skin cream, lip balm, 10 thousand snacks, earbuds, noise cancelling earbuds, hand wipes, comfy stretch pants...
two women are sitting on a couch and one of them says just stuff them in yeah
ALT: two women are sitting on a couch and one of them says just stuff them in yeah
media.tenor.com
April 5, 2025 at 12:15 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
💉 Proud to announce a new @ec.europa.eu (HaDEA / #HERA) tender for the development next-generation #influenza #vaccines open until 19/5 3pm (Brussels). This tender will be a pre-commercial procurement R&D scheme valued at EUR 225Mio. #HealthUnion

🔗 hadea.ec.europa.eu/news/eu4heal...
March 27, 2025 at 8:56 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
75Mio children will not be vaccinated and an estimate 1.2Mio will die for the US to save 0,0078% of their yearly spending. #heartbreaking 😢💔

U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...
U.S. to End Vaccine Funds for Poor Countries
A 281-page spreadsheet obtained by The Times lists the Trump administration’s plans for thousands of foreign aid programs.
www.nytimes.com
March 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
❓Is anyone on this network aware of clinical trials with Brincidofovir in the EU/Africa (apart from MOSA) or any local stockpile of it? Considering the designation of orphan drug in the EU... If so ➡️ DM
March 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🚨 New EU Tender Alert!

HaDEA & HERA seek rapid PoC devices for AMR detection

🦠 Targets: WHO 2024 priority bacteria, Candida spp., A. fumigatus

📈 TRL 3+→8 | CE pathway

💶 €12.86M | ⏳ 48 months

📅 DDL: 12 May 2025, 4pm CET

🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#EU4Health #AMR #Diagnostics #Innovation
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March 24, 2025 at 9:58 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
📢 HaDEA & #HERA have launched a new EU tender under #EU4Health!

🔬Objective: Strengthen evidence on #Mpox vaccine immunity & optimal booster strategies.
💰 Budget: €4.9M
📅 21 April 2025, 16:00 CET

👉 Details & application: ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#GlobalHealth #Vaccines #ClinicalResearch
March 13, 2025 at 8:16 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🚨 Dangerous rhetoric from RFK Jr. downplaying measles risks! Measles is NOT a harmless childhood disease - it can cause severe complications and death. #Vaccination saves lives. Spreading misinformation undermines public health. #VaccinesWork #MeaslesPrevention 💉👪
March 13, 2025 at 8:38 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
#HERA & #HaDEA thank all the respondents to the survey on the Next-Gen #Influenza Vaccines upcominf call. Tender soon to be published in the F&TS Portal - more info in the link below. #EU #EU4Health #Innovation

🔗 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...
March 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🚨 Article published in @science.org, co-authored by #CEPI Director, alerts to the rapid spread of deadly H5N1 bird flu & demands urgent 🌍 action! 🦠⚠️ Faster Vx, stronger response plans & better coordination are critical to prevent a pandemic. #H5N1 #PandemicPreparedness

🔗 cepi.net/world-should...
The world should prepare now for a potential H5N1 flu pandemic, experts warn | CEPI
The rapid spread and mutation of a deadly bird flu virus in the United States warrants urgent global action, say experts
cepi.net
March 7, 2025 at 1:21 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🦟 #Dengue in Philippines (Quezon) with spike in cases. Travellers to the area should be cautious and apply anti-mosquito spray frequently, avoid water bodies especially at dusk, use bed-nets, and monitor and alert for any symptoms #ProtectYourself #PublicHealth
March 7, 2025 at 12:12 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
✨ Guilded Age's back ✨ but only that part in which measles kill a lot of children. Not sure, but looks like they are aiming at 1890's death burden (9250 ppl.)
March 5, 2025 at 8:35 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
The 457 UK and 90 French soldiers that die in Afghanistan maybe were just there on vacations, and not fighting in that US initiated war. Somebody teach JD how to look for info on Wikipedia, or even his buddy's Grok.

www.politico.eu/article/jd-v...
JD Vance sparks British fury as he mocks Ukraine peacekeeping plan
U.S. vice president attacks idea of “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 years” helping Ukraine, though after backlash denies he was referring to France or U.K.
www.politico.eu
March 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
🚨 Deadline Extended! The @ec.europa.eu is seeking input on its next-gen influenza vaccine tender. Help shape the future on flu prevention and next-gen vaccines! 🦠💉

📝 Survey extended until March 10, EOB

👉 ec.europa.eu/info/funding...

#Influenza #Vaccines #Innovation #EUScience
EU Funding & Tenders Portal
The Funding and Tenders Portal is the single entry point (the Single Electronic Data Interchange Area) for applicants, contractors and experts in funding programmes and procurements managed by the Eur...
ec.europa.eu
March 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
Como escreveu Henrique Lopes de Mendonça, às armas, às armas!
March 4, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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profjacob.bsky.social
🚨🚨Powerful response by the EU team by @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu on Trump's drastic decision to pause their military aid commitment to Ukraine. Her press statement is worth reading in full. 🧵 ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
March 4, 2025 at 10:14 AM
joaoqmadeira.bsky.social
I cannot, and I repeat - I CANNOT stress how much of a dumb idea this is 🤦! We had exposure to gain immunity approach for some millennia. Basically ppl die. #VaccinesSaveLifes 💉

Parents are holding ‘measles parties’ in the U.S., alarming health experts | Globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1106288...
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March 4, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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ricbdc.bsky.social
There will come a day of reckoning with #Orbán.

Question to EU law experts: considering that it is not possible to expel a country, is it possible that the current EU succeeds into a new one by 25 or 26 MS evoking article 50 and creating a new Union with the existing institutions in place?
March 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM