Raffaella Ravinetto

@rravinetto.bsky.social

290 followers 130 following 240 posts

Caminante no hay camino, se hace camino al andar (A. Machado).
Head of Public Health Department at Institute of Tropical Medicine Antwerp.
Pharmaceutical Public Health & Research Ethics.Tweets in my own name

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Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · Sep 22

Today we joined the call for the #right to receive and provide #healthcare, for the right to live. Everywhere. #Gaza #Yemen #Sudan #Afghanistan #Ukraine #DRC #Syria #Haïti etc.
medicsonthemoveforwhatmatters.org @itmantwerp.bsky.social

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 23h

Read more from HRW:

Risk of Atrocities Looms in South Sudan Amidst Renewed Civil War

On January 25, South Sudan’s military called on civilians, aid workers, and United Nations personnel to evacuate from opposition-controlled areas in Jonglei state.

www.hrw.org

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Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net · 1d

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)

YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 1d

Quite predictable RFK.Jr is continuing to export anti-vaccine policy overseas. Tying US funding dollars to GAVI to demands on removing vaccines with mercury based preservatives. He will not stop here, next will start demanding guidelines changes.
www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Exclusive: US conditions funding to global vaccine group on dropping mercury-based preservative from shots

The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spo...

www.reuters.com

Reposted by Nicola J. Cooper, Raffaella Ravinetto

World Medical Association @medwma.bsky.social · 1d

🚨 WMA Raises Alarm on Violence Against Health Personnel in Iran

We call for the immediate release of detained doctors and an end to violence against health personnel.

🔗 https://ow.ly/uZv550Y4LkC
#ProtectHealthWorkers #MedicalEthics #HumanRights

Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 1d

No more funding for #ICE without reform. #Congress must act.
www.americamagazine.org/editorials/2...

No more funding for ICE without reform. Congress must act.

Catholic leaders, including bishops and ideally the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops as a body, should join Cardinal Tobin in calling for withholding funding until reforms are enacted.

www.americamagazine.org

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International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 1d

Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota: Not Just a Political, also a Public Health Crisis www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... IHP Feat article by Lucia Vitale.

Immigration Enforcement in Minnesota: Not Just a Political, also a Public Health Crisis

What does a public health crisis look like when it is produced by state power rather than by disease in the U.S. context? Global health scholars have grappled with this question ever since the police...

www.internationalhealthpolicies.org

Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 3d

Mario Bannoni: "...governing based on gross arrogance, rooted in ignorance, incompetence and immaturity, is not just a character trait but, as in #Trump’s case, a technique to induce weariness, inadequacy, and a sense of impotence in the adversary"
www.focusonafrica.info/usa-ridiculo...

USA, ridiculousness in power

Focus international - USA, ridiculousness in power - In the United States, political power in the Trump era has stopped fearing ridicule, turning ignorance and arrogance into a governing strategy.

www.focusonafrica.info

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william bourgeois @madcap1090.bsky.social · 3d

EU digital rights are under attack! @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu is weakening protections against Big Tech and its AI, instead of defending our democracy and privacy. Let's make our voices heard: demand she stands strong. Sign the petition now! share.greens-efa.eu/s/uBXSOwgi

My data, my choice - sign the petition

share.greens-efa.eu

Reposted by Shannon Vallor, Richard F. Catalano, Michael Wagner , and 11 more Shannon Vallor, Richard F. Catalano, Michael Wagner, Sherry Hamby, Per Ahlberg, Joni Lovenduski, Rosanna E. Guadagno, Raffaella Ravinetto, Federico Ortino, Andreas M. Wüst, Mark Priestley, Michelle Arrow, Richard Moorhead, François Guesnet

Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 4d

Please share. 💔

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Morgan J Freeman @mjfree.bsky.social · 4d

RIP Alex Pretti.

Reposted by Brendan Nyhan, Raffaella Ravinetto, Els Torreele

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 5d

🧵 Why even suggesting that polio vaccination should be optional is dangerous.
www.contagionlive.com/view/acip-ch...

ACIP Chair Says Polio Vaccine Should be Optional | Contagion Live

Kirk Milhoan, MD, PhD, said vaccine choice is the most important element to the public even with the possibility of people contracting this disease or others when given the right to opt out of vaccina...

www.contagionlive.com

Reposted by Jan W. Mueller, Elizabeth Saunders, Colin F. Camerer , and 32 more Jan W. Mueller, Elizabeth Saunders, Colin F. Camerer, Peter Thorne, Gavin A. Schmidt, Joshua S. Weitz, Tom Clark, Michael A. Clemens, Caroline Krafft, Ramón López Facal, Kevin Carey, Trevon D. Logan, Raffaella Ravinetto, Smith, Janet Murray, Michael Zimmer, Julia Lynch, Stephen D. Murphy, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Michael D. McDonald, Erol Akçay, Melissa Sweet, Erin O’Donnell, Ann Bartow, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Nathan P. Kalmoe, Jaap Kooijman, Dan Immergluck, Colin Woodard, Virginia Sapiro, Timothy D. McBride, Dunlap, David Darmofal, Monisha Bajaj, Kristina McElheran

Marlow Stern @marlownyc.bsky.social · 5d

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 6d

"...later said that it did not have the required technical resources: so this is #ethics #dumping, ie taking advantage of somewhere else weakness to carry out #unethical & #futile research.
In a #vulnerable community, with a #mortality endpoint in babies. #Guinea-Bissau #hepatitisB #vaccine #placebo

Health Policy Watch - Global health news reporting @healthpolicywatch.bsky.social · 7d

‘Suspended Or Cancelled’: Guinea-Bissau Health Minister Halts Controversial Hepatitis Trial - Health Policy Watch

A controversial trial to examine various impacts of the hepatitis B vaccine on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau has been “suspended or cancelled”, the

healthpolicy-watch.news

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International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 6d

Check out this week's IHP news 863: Dawn of the new Global Health architecture? www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/newsletter/ pdf: www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/wp-content/u...

Newsletter

www.internationalhealthpolicies.org

Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 6d

....a joke???

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 7d

Lenacapavir and the Open Veins of Latin America

Gilead's voluntary license for Lenacapavir currently excludes 11
countries in Latin America

Why is this problematic ethically?

@bioethiquemx.bsky.social & colleague explain

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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World Medical Association @medwma.bsky.social · 8d

The WMA has sent a letter to Syria’s Interim President expressing deep concern over reported attacks on civilians and healthcare services in Aleppo. Targeting medical staff and facilities is a grave breach of international law.

🔗 Press release: https://ow.ly/8G3H50Y0wRt

Reposted by Joanna Bryson, Elizabeth Saunders, Anna Nagurney , and 35 more Joanna Bryson, Elizabeth Saunders, Anna Nagurney, Sherry Hamby, Julie L. Lockwood, Mark D. White, Diane Ravitch, Martin Paul Eve, Rita Rubin, Martin Tomko, Jeremy T. Kerr, Cathy N. Davidson, Sabine Pahl, Tuomas Mattila, Jussi T. Eronen, Raffaella Ravinetto, Mary Rice, W. Andy Knight, Carlos Nunes Silva, Gerald Friedman, Stacy D. VanDeveer, Margot C. Finn, John Hogan, Karen O’Reilly, Els Torreele, Melanie Simms, Melissa Sweet, Helen Jefferson Lenskyj, Erin O’Donnell, Richard M. Carpiano, J. Warner, Jason Williams, Nicole Guenther Discenza, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Farah Mendlesohn, Nathan P. Kalmoe, David Darmofal, Harvey J. Kaye

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away

thezebra.org

Reposted by Nancy Kanwisher, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Raffaella Ravinetto , and 5 more Nancy Kanwisher, Jonathan M. Gilligan, Raffaella Ravinetto, Devon Greyson, Smith, Kate Starbird, Karen L. Cox, Nicole Guenther Discenza

John Ross @johnrossmd.bsky.social · 10d

Catastrophe: Florida's Department of Health is stopping coverage for antivirals to 10,000 low-income people with HIV infection, blaming impending federal cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program. 12.5% of Americans with HIV live in Florida.

Thousands to lose access to HIV drugs with new cuts

An estimated 10,000 people are about to lose access to their HIV medication as the Florida Department of Health makes cuts to the AIDS Drug Assistance Program (ADAP).

www.fox13news.com

Reposted by Anna Nagurney, Patrick A. Jansen, Rosemary A. Joyce , and 2 more Anna Nagurney, Patrick A. Jansen, Rosemary A. Joyce, Giovanna Mascheroni, Raffaella Ravinetto

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 10d

Breaking News: President Trump told Norway’s prime minister that one reason he’s pushing to acquire Greenland is because he didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize.

Denied Peace Prize, Trump Tells Norway He’ll Push for Greenland

In a text message, President Trump told Norway’s prime minister he no longer felt obliged to “think purely of Peace” and that the world would not be secure until America controlled the island.

nyti.ms

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MO*Magazine @mondiaalnieuws.bsky.social · 11d

TIP! De expo “In Their Eyes: een andere kijk op de humanitaire crisis in Mali” vindt van 23 januari tot 12 februari plaats in de Sint-Gorikshallen in Brussel. www.mo.be/agenda/-in-t...

“In Their Eyes”: 7 ngo’s brengen vergeten humanitaire crisis in Mali in beeld – MO*

23 januari 2026 tot 12 februari 2026

www.mo.be

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Human Rights Watch @hrw.org · 13d

Iran’s security forces have carried out mass killings after protests escalated on January 8.

Despite a nationwide internet shutdown, Human Rights Watch has been able to verify videos and gather witness accounts.

Read now: https://bit.ly/3YIRtW0

Raffaella Ravinetto @rravinetto.bsky.social · 13d

This looks, sadly, a perfect case to teach about #ethics #dumping.

Reposted by Raffaella Ravinetto, Gorik Ooms

International Health Policies (IHP) network @ihpnetwork.bsky.social · 13d

America First in global health: a lesson in the consequences of ‘might is right’? www.internationalhealthpolicies.org/featured-art... Feat article by @gorikooms.bsky.social

Reposted by Raffaella Ravinetto, Smith, Julia Lynch , and 1 more Raffaella Ravinetto, Smith, Julia Lynch, Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 14d

Important to highlight: This move is coming from African health officials. It signals that “the institutions are getting stronger” by pushing back on unethical and exploitative studies in Africa, @boghuma.bsky.social said.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Controversial US study on hepatitis B vaccines in Africa is cancelled

$1.6m project drew outrage over ethical questions about withholding vaccines proven to prevent disease

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Raffaella Ravinetto, Dana Howard

BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 14d

The full protocol of the study in Guinea Bissau provides no reassurance. If anything is spells out just how insanely unethical the planned study is. The PI who wrote the protocol tried to defend the indefensible by writing to me directly. I responded publicly.
Read 👇
substack.com/@bktitanji/n...

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World Medical Association @medwma.bsky.social · 14d

WMA strongly condemns the attack on Ilam Hospital and ongoing violations of medical neutrality in Iran. Hospitals must be safe spaces. Doctors must treat patients without intimidation or coercion. Medical care must never be weaponised. Read the PR:
🔗 https://ow.ly/lMlg50XX6pZ

#MedicalNeutrality

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 14d

Three Palestine Action-affiliated prisoners have announced the end of their hunger strike after the government decided not to award a £2bn contract to the Israeli arms company subsidiary Elbit Systems UK

Consumer boycott of Elbit systems

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Three Palestine Action protesters end their hunger strike

Four more who had paused opt not to continue after government opts against giving contract to Elbit Systems UK

www.theguardian.com

Reposted by Sarah E. Gollust, Juan Cole, Raffaella Ravinetto

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 15d

Last night with no warning, RFK Jr. cancelled up to $2 billion in funding for mental health and substance abuse research and programs administered through SAMHSA.

He and his minions did so because “they no longer believe the defunded programs align with the Trump administration's priorities”.

Trump administration sends letter wiping out addiction, mental health grants

The Trump administration sent hundreds of letters Tuesday terminating federal grants supporting mental health and drug addiction services.

www.npr.org

Reposted by Raffaella Ravinetto

NRC @nrc.nl · 15d

In Afrika is de toegang tot veilige geneesmiddelen lang niet vanzelfsprekend. De nieuwe Afrikaanse Medicijnautoriteit moet daarin verbetering brengen, „een logische volgende stap in het dekolonisatieproces”.

Afrikaanse landen willen de veiligheid van medicijnen waarborgen op het hele continent

Gezondheidszorg: In Afrika is de toegang tot veilige geneesmiddelen lang niet vanzelfsprekend. De nieuwe Afrikaanse Medicijnautoriteit moet daarin verbetering brengen, „een logische volgende stap in het dekolonisatieproces”.

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