Maureen Kelley
@maureen0kelley.bsky.social
Bioethicist working in women’s health and global health. Landscape photography as therapy. Views my own.
Proud supervisor here to see *Dr*. Rita Njeru graduate from Oxford with her DPhil this weekend — woohoo!
May 18, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Proud supervisor here to see *Dr*. Rita Njeru graduate from Oxford with her DPhil this weekend — woohoo!
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Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA
March 19, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Photographer Kathryn Cooper captures the fluid movement of birds, particularly migrating starling murmurations at roost sites across the North of England UK #WomensA
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1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
March 19, 2025 at 7:32 PM
1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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Today our opinion piece is in print @usatoday.com
NIH cuts will harm women’s heart research.
We cannot afford to go backwards.
Women’s heart health is not political.
@SmidtHeart @WomensHeartCS
#savingwomenshearts #womenshearthealth
📎 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
NIH cuts will harm women’s heart research.
We cannot afford to go backwards.
Women’s heart health is not political.
@SmidtHeart @WomensHeartCS
#savingwomenshearts #womenshearthealth
📎 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
March 13, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Today our opinion piece is in print @usatoday.com
NIH cuts will harm women’s heart research.
We cannot afford to go backwards.
Women’s heart health is not political.
@SmidtHeart @WomensHeartCS
#savingwomenshearts #womenshearthealth
📎 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
NIH cuts will harm women’s heart research.
We cannot afford to go backwards.
Women’s heart health is not political.
@SmidtHeart @WomensHeartCS
#savingwomenshearts #womenshearthealth
📎 www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
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Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Contribution of vaccination to improved survival and health: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization
Since 1974 substantial gains in childhood survival have occurred in every global region.
We estimate that EPI has provided the single greatest contribution to improved infant
survival over the past 50...
www.thelancet.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world.
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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You can still register for today's @nihr.bsky.social Sex & Gender in Medical Research launch event. It's a landmark that NIHR is adopting MESSAGE recommendations, and on IWD! I will be speaking about the project, alongside @ccriadoperez.bsky.social & Dame Lesley Regan. web.cvent.com/event/c9ea86...
March 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
You can still register for today's @nihr.bsky.social Sex & Gender in Medical Research launch event. It's a landmark that NIHR is adopting MESSAGE recommendations, and on IWD! I will be speaking about the project, alongside @ccriadoperez.bsky.social & Dame Lesley Regan. web.cvent.com/event/c9ea86...
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NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NIH to terminate hundreds of active research grants
Studies that touch on LGBT+ health, gender identity and DEI in the biomedical workforce could be terminated, according to documents obtained by Nature.
www.nature.com
March 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NEW: The NIH has begun terminating grants for active projects studying gender identity, DEI, environmental justice, climate change, among other topics.
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
At least 16 termination letters have already been sent — and hundreds more are coming, people inside NIH tell me.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Excellent piece on the impact of scrubbing equity and inclusion tools and guidelines governing medical research. slate.com/technology/2...
I Just Quit My Job at the NIH. Slashing DEI Is Going to Haunt the Future of Medicine.
We’d only started to correct a major gap in understanding.
slate.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Excellent piece on the impact of scrubbing equity and inclusion tools and guidelines governing medical research. slate.com/technology/2...
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Dr Mehrunisha Suleman is wonderful and wise
www.health.org.uk/about-the-he...
Supported this publication
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I don't believe we have heard enough about this work in Palliative Care
www.health.org.uk/about-the-he...
Supported this publication
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I don't believe we have heard enough about this work in Palliative Care
Mehrunisha Suleman
www.health.org.uk
November 30, 2024 at 10:05 PM
Dr Mehrunisha Suleman is wonderful and wise
www.health.org.uk/about-the-he...
Supported this publication
mcb.org.uk/wp-content/u...
I don't believe we have heard enough about this work in Palliative Care
www.health.org.uk/about-the-he...
Supported this publication
mcb.org.uk/wp-content/u...
I don't believe we have heard enough about this work in Palliative Care
Students soaking up the Vitamin D in Oxford…☀️
March 5, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Students soaking up the Vitamin D in Oxford…☀️
Years of excellent work and valuable tools for researchers aimed at improving women's health, developed by the talented team @ NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, have been removed from their website. This is senseless. Saved one report before it was disappeared by the Republic of Gilead.
February 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Years of excellent work and valuable tools for researchers aimed at improving women's health, developed by the talented team @ NIH Office of Research on Women's Health, have been removed from their website. This is senseless. Saved one report before it was disappeared by the Republic of Gilead.
Reposted by Maureen Kelley
📢 New report on #Texas' abortion ban:
- 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss
- Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities
- Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears
🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
- 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss
- Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities
- Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears
🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
Rates of pregnancy-related sepsis and deaths grow in Texas after abortion ban
ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.
www.texastribune.org
February 22, 2025 at 1:32 AM
📢 New report on #Texas' abortion ban:
- 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss
- Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities
- Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears
🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
- 50%+ rise in sepsis from 2nd-trimester pregnancy loss
- Rise in pregnant and postpartum fatalities
- Delayed care for miscarriages due to healthcare provider legal fears
🚨 Restrictive laws = worse health outcomes.
www.texastribune.org/2025/02/20/t...
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Researchers from Ethox have contributed to a Nature paper outlining how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the landscape of infectious disease research & improve pandemic preparedness. The paper puts particular emphasis on safety, accountability and ethics.
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
Global group of scientists find advances in AI can help prepare the world for the next pandemic
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk
February 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Researchers from Ethox have contributed to a Nature paper outlining how artificial intelligence (AI) can transform the landscape of infectious disease research & improve pandemic preparedness. The paper puts particular emphasis on safety, accountability and ethics.
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
www.ethox.ox.ac.uk/news/global-...
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The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
orwh.od.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The entire website for the NIH Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) is very nearly stripped bare. This is so, so devastating. orwh.od.nih.gov/research/fun...
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Reposted by Maureen Kelley
The global South is leading in keeping us all safe.
1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks
2.Uganda is fighting Ebola
3. DRC is fighting #mpox
Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES
www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks
2.Uganda is fighting Ebola
3. DRC is fighting #mpox
Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES
www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
Africa CDC Call for Applications: The African Epidemic Service Program 2025 (AES) - Empowering Africa's Public Health Workforce - Global South Opportunities
In an increasingly interconnected world, the rapid spread of disease can pose significant challenges to public health systems. The African continent, with its
www.globalsouthopportunities.com
February 18, 2025 at 12:13 AM
The global South is leading in keeping us all safe.
1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks
2.Uganda is fighting Ebola
3. DRC is fighting #mpox
Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES
www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
1.Rwanda &Tanzania contained marburg outbreaks
2.Uganda is fighting Ebola
3. DRC is fighting #mpox
Knowledge can flow from the global South to North. With CDC EIS gutted, consider Africa CDC's AES
www.globalsouthopportunities.com/2025/02/17/a...
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@bachynski.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social
On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal
In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...
www.bmj.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:39 PM
@bachynski.bsky.social and @martinmckee.bsky.social
On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
On the ethical betrayal of clinical trial participants worldwide by the Trump-Musk-Vought administration.
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Reposted by Maureen Kelley
Making the case for community involvement in research on climate and health: Opportunities and Lessons - authors include our Maria Merritt | Frontiers - Climate www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
Frontiers | Making the case for community involvement in research on climate and health: Opportunities and Lessons
Advancing climate change is an urgent global driver of human disease with some of the world's most marginalized communities being at highest risk. In respons...
www.frontiersin.org
November 25, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Making the case for community involvement in research on climate and health: Opportunities and Lessons - authors include our Maria Merritt | Frontiers - Climate www.frontiersin.org/journals/cli...
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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
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 7:52 AM
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
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
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Many health-care professionals — along with society in general — regularly tell people who go through menopause to accept the misery of the transition, and the health troubles that can follow
https://go.nature.com/4hR1PdV
https://go.nature.com/4hR1PdV
The new science of menopause: these emerging therapies could change women’s health
Researchers are exploring how to prolong ovarian life and revisiting hormone replacement therapy — a once routine treatment that has fallen out of favour.
go.nature.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Many health-care professionals — along with society in general — regularly tell people who go through menopause to accept the misery of the transition, and the health troubles that can follow
https://go.nature.com/4hR1PdV
https://go.nature.com/4hR1PdV
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“I’ve never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
Dozens of Clinical Trials Have Been Frozen in Response to Trump’s USAID Order (Gift Article)
The stop-work order on U.S.A.I.D.-funded research has left thousands of people with experimental drugs and devices in their bodies, with no access to monitoring or care.
www.nytimes.com
February 7, 2025 at 11:56 AM
“I’ve never seen anything like it in my 40 years of doing international research. It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...
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What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘It’s tectonic:’ U.S. foreign aid freeze deals a blow to research around the globe
Dismantling of USAID could disrupt clinical trials and wipe away U.S. “soft power” in developing countries, scientists warn
www.science.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:12 AM
What's happening at #USAID is causing so much damage. The great reporters at @science.org explore some of that damage. www.science.org/content/arti...