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Roxanne Keynejad
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Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Psychiatrist at King's College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust
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Wow

Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions

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Call for 20 Assistant Professor positions
Karolinska Institutet is a world-leading medical university with a long and proud history of ground-breaking research. We are now recruiting outstanding early-career researchers with particularly exce...
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July 25, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Pregnancy, & life with a new baby, are times of immense transition.

If you know someone who is pregnant, or has a new baby, there are plenty of ways you can lean in & provide help.

Here are some tips:
💙 check in with them
💙 be there for them when needed
💙 offer emotional support & understanding
April 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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“ The United States spent roughly US$12 billion on global health in 2024.
Without that yearly spending, roughly 25 million people could die in the next 15 years…”
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25 million deaths: what could happen if the US ends global health funding
Nature - Models estimate the ginormous potential impact of foreign-aid cuts.
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April 18, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Everyone who works for PRAMS (the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System) at CDC was terminated today. That appears to be the end of a critical program which monitored infant and maternal health nationwide across pregnancy, childbirth & postpartum. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/prams...
PRAMS Shuttered for Good
In the first weeks of the administration I wrote a number of...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Essentially, and unlike "health equity" research, "health disparities" research can be used (or misused) to promote a MAHA narrative that blames people for their own "bad" health. 3/
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The real question is--why do so many Americans believe the MAHA message, despite it being so obviously false?

And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health.

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The U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services has repeatedly claimed: “If you’re healthy, it’s almost impossible to die from an infectious disease in modern times.”

That is dangerously false.

www.medscape.com/viewarticle/...
April 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Don’t miss @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social free lecture, "Towards Rigour and Justice in Research for Health" with Dr @seyeabimbola.bsky.social, Dr @ckyobutungi.bsky.social & Dr Samah Jabr, exploring justice in #globalhealth.

🗓️ May 7th 2025
📍Strand Campus, London

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Public Lecture: Towards Rigour and Justice in Research for Health
We are honored to host Dr. Seye Abimbola for a public lecture titled "Towards Rigour and Justice in Research for Health."
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April 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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The Trump adminstration’s decision to end NIH-funded research on topics & populations they disfavor is reckless, illegal and WRONG. Today, we sued. Read the complaint in APHA v NIH, online now: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
April 2, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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Our recent paper found child maltreatment and/or parental domestic violence exposure incurs large personal and societal economic burdens. Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The economic burden of child maltreatment and co-occurring parental domestic violence and abuse in the UK
Child maltreatment (CM) and parental domestic violence and abuse (pDVA) impose considerable lifelong adverse outcomes on those affected. Despite shari…
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March 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Science is under siege. Political forces are undermining expertise, dismantling research institutions, and replacing evidence based policymaking with ideology.

This is a global crisis.

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March 31, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Rutgers Faculty Senate calls for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact, including "a shared or distributed defense fund.... to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution."
March 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Today I lost an NIH grant training clinicians to do research about intimate partner violence with perinatal women.

More women are murdered in the perinatal period than die of obstetric complications.

I didn't just lose a grant. We lost an entire cohort of people building careers to prevent that.
March 22, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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"But these are pretexts. Universities are independent centers of ideas and often prominent centers of dissent. Autocrats are allergic to sources of dissent, so they almost invariably seek to silence, weaken, or control them."

www.thecrimson.com/a...
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
First They Came for Columbia | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
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March 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
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You can view the report "Why we must defend science, social science and medicine from attacks on diversity" here: independentsage.org/...
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March 17, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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Arthur Caplan | Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power - The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by. | Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Don’t wait out four hard years: speak truth to power
The importance of diversity in science is an unshakeable reality that the scientific community must stand by.
www.nature.com
March 17, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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I have a new Substack out today. It talks about the infamous National Science Foundation's "banned words" list and how the administration's cancellation of "woke" science and DEI initiatives is a thin smokescreen to undermine science & research more broadly. substack.com/home/post/p-...
An Attack on “Woke” Science Or an Attack on All Science?
The Trump administration's attempt to cancel science
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March 13, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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The fight for equality

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March 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Nature journalists will be at #StandUpForScience protests across the US later today; and in France the actions have already begun. Events will take place in more than 30 French cities, says @standupforscifr.bsky.social
Scientists in France are choosing to #StandUpForScience alongside their US colleagues. Signatories to a supporting column in @lemonde.fr include two Nobel laureates, economist Esther Duflo and virologist Françoise Barré-Sinoussi. www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art...
March 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts.

Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
February 27, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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"In its rush to meet Trump’s agenda, the UK government is damaging health too."

The UK’s cuts to development aid are morally repugnant, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
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February 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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I talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Inside the Collapse at NIH
Administration officials pressured NIH to avoid clear advice from the agency’s own lawyers to restart grant funding now.
www.theatlantic.com
February 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Incredible week launching our #ComplexInterventionTrials #CommunityofPractice with the amazing #PhDStudents + #PostDocs at Addis Ababa University, with a little help from some amazing speakers + support from @acmedsci.bsky.social #StarterGrant for Clinical Lecturers. Returning home fully inspired!
February 15, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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Mind-boggling wreckage. Among the lifesaving programs now disrupted by Elon’s attack on @USAID: phase 1 trials for a possible HIV vaccine.
February 6, 2025 at 2:07 AM