ShannaLivermore
@shannalivermor2.bsky.social
Director of Operations, HIV Clinical Fellowship, The Lundquist Institute MPH, MCHES, FRSPH, MHFA public health professional - area of specialties: HIV/AIDS, reproductive health, mental health, strategic planning, leadership and training
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I can't even.
Just a few months ago I saw my first unvaccinated baby with pertussis, and it was horrible.
Just a few months ago I saw my first unvaccinated baby with pertussis, and it was horrible.
November 8, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I can't even.
Just a few months ago I saw my first unvaccinated baby with pertussis, and it was horrible.
Just a few months ago I saw my first unvaccinated baby with pertussis, and it was horrible.
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“Among the buildings hit hardest, officials said, is Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth Parish, one of the regions most affected by the storm. Floodwaters breached the building and forced the evacuation of about 75 patients… Medical staff members “are working under perilous conditions”
Jamaica’s health care system has emerged as one of Hurricane Melissa’s victims.
www.nytimes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
“Among the buildings hit hardest, officials said, is Black River Hospital in St. Elizabeth Parish, one of the regions most affected by the storm. Floodwaters breached the building and forced the evacuation of about 75 patients… Medical staff members “are working under perilous conditions”
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man this sucks
Ugh. There's a new way for #rfkjr to hurt people with #disabilities. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2025/10/28/rfk-jr-may-oversee-special-education-for-students-with-disabilities/
RFK Jr. May Oversee Special Education For Students With Disabilities
Trump has said he wants to tap RFK Jr to head special eduction, moving it from DOE to HHS. Kennedy has said controversial things about autism. What might happen?
www.forbes.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:43 PM
man this sucks
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@citizencohn.bsky.social shares some of my story and the work that I have done on public health with thousands of scientists and implementers. We ended outbreak after outbreak TOGETHER. Many of those outbreaks occurred because of RFK Jr’s rhetoric. www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
This Is What—and Who—We’re Losing in RFK’s Purge
The story of one scientist, a career in public health, and the crisis at the CDC.
www.thebulwark.com
August 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@citizencohn.bsky.social shares some of my story and the work that I have done on public health with thousands of scientists and implementers. We ended outbreak after outbreak TOGETHER. Many of those outbreaks occurred because of RFK Jr’s rhetoric. www.thebulwark.com/p/kennedy-rf...
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NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
The FDA Let Substandard Factories Ship These Medications to the U.S.
ProPublica identified more than 150 products that were exempted from import bans since 2013. Our list provides the names of the drugs or ingredients and their manufacturers, many of which are no longe...
www.propublica.org
August 12, 2025 at 11:51 AM
NEW: In June, ProPublica reported that the FDA has given more than 20 foreign factories a special pass to send drugs to the U.S. even though they were made at plants the agency had banned.
Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
Today, we’re publishing a list of those exempted drugs.
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this graph is incredible
Hospitals, pharma, doctors, medical devices, health insurers, PBMs — the entire health care industry has crushed working households through higher prices and out-of-pocket spending, to the point that health care is a bigger expense than a mortgage. bsky.app/profile/lydi...
July 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
this graph is incredible
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Was waiting for this piece on the USAID cuts to be published in The Lancet.
This is what solidarity means:
“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 MILLION (UI 8 –20) additional all-age deaths, including 4 MILLION (3 –6) in children <5,by 2030.”
This is what solidarity means:
“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 MILLION (UI 8 –20) additional all-age deaths, including 4 MILLION (3 –6) in children <5,by 2030.”
Evaluating the impact of two decades of USAID interventions and projecting the effects of defunding on mortality up to 2030: a retrospective impact evaluation and forecasting analysis
USAID funding has significantly contributed to the reduction in adult and child mortality
across low-income and middle-income countries over the past two decades. Our estimates
show that, unless the a...
www.thelancet.com
July 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Was waiting for this piece on the USAID cuts to be published in The Lancet.
This is what solidarity means:
“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 MILLION (UI 8 –20) additional all-age deaths, including 4 MILLION (3 –6) in children <5,by 2030.”
This is what solidarity means:
“Forecasting models predicted that the current steep funding cuts could result in more than 14 MILLION (UI 8 –20) additional all-age deaths, including 4 MILLION (3 –6) in children <5,by 2030.”
As a public health professional I am horrified by events like this: www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
In the middle of a hepatitis outbreak, U.S. shutters the one CDC lab that could help
All 27 scientists at the CDC's viral hepatitis lab were told their duties were "unnecessary." Ongoing outbreak investigations have now been halted.
www.npr.org
April 19, 2025 at 2:54 AM
As a public health professional I am horrified by events like this: www.npr.org/2025/04/16/n...
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The American Public Health Association has called for RFK Jr. to resign or be fired, citing his "complete disregard" for science.
Public Health Org Calls for RFK Jr. to 'Resign or Be Fired'
Separately, nearly 2,000 NASEM members sent out an 'SOS' about the 'decimation' of science
www.medpagetoday.com
April 10, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The American Public Health Association has called for RFK Jr. to resign or be fired, citing his "complete disregard" for science.
Public health leaders are voicing their outrage over a Trump administration plan to fire 10,000 workers across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, citing the potentially irreparable harm it would cause to the nation's health. publichealthnewswire.org?p=hhs-layoff...
Cuts to HHS staff, public health funding will undermine nation's well-being | Public Health Newswire
publichealthnewswire.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Public health leaders are voicing their outrage over a Trump administration plan to fire 10,000 workers across the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, citing the potentially irreparable harm it would cause to the nation's health. publichealthnewswire.org?p=hhs-layoff...
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In a proper country it would be a crime to knowingly harm children by practicing medicine without a license (and willfully lying to further a grift)
“A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.”
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-jr...
As Doctors Predicted, RFK Jr.'s Bogus Vitamin A Claims Are Making Some Measles Patients More Sick
A Texas children's hospital is now treating children for vitamin A toxicity after RFK Jr. touted the vitamin as a measles treatment.
www.huffpost.com
March 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
In a proper country it would be a crime to knowingly harm children by practicing medicine without a license (and willfully lying to further a grift)
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Ready, set, submit! The call for abstracts for #APHA2025 is now open. Don't miss your chance to present at the year's premier public health event in Washington, D.C., this fall. www.apha.org/events-and-m...
January 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Ready, set, submit! The call for abstracts for #APHA2025 is now open. Don't miss your chance to present at the year's premier public health event in Washington, D.C., this fall. www.apha.org/events-and-m...
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Truly devastating
Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without HIV Treatment
President Trump’s pause on aid, and the gutting of the primary aid agency, could jeopardize the health of more than 20 million people worldwide, including 500,000 children, experts say.
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Truly devastating
Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Foreign Aid Freeze Leaves Millions Without H.I.V. Treatment
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...
Show yourself some love💝and take care of yourself this season. That includes taking care of your overall mental and behavioral health.
Learn some ways to take care of yourself to help de-stress:
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December 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Show yourself some love💝and take care of yourself this season. That includes taking care of your overall mental and behavioral health.
Learn some ways to take care of yourself to help de-stress:
Learn some ways to take care of yourself to help de-stress:
Congratulations @DrFejzo on advancing women's health research! Fight On!✌️
Watch her speech here: bit.ly/3Deb4Wx
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December 15, 2024 at 12:04 AM
Congratulations @DrFejzo on advancing women's health research! Fight On!✌️
Watch her speech here: bit.ly/3Deb4Wx
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“We want to bring the entire network to life with functional models — showing what the disease does — that can be used by everybody working in this field. Collectively, we’ll have a better shot at developing effective therapies" says Gianluca Lazzi, PhD. keck.usc.edu/news/nih-awa...
NIH awards $2.7 million to map retinal connections in degenerative eye disease
Related News USC study links lack of diversity in Alzheimer’s disease clinical trials to differences in amyloid levels April 17, 2024 First genome-wide comparison of vapers and smokers finds similar [...
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December 14, 2024 at 10:00 PM
“We want to bring the entire network to life with functional models — showing what the disease does — that can be used by everybody working in this field. Collectively, we’ll have a better shot at developing effective therapies" says Gianluca Lazzi, PhD. keck.usc.edu/news/nih-awa...
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I wonder how big a batch of product of raw milk from Raw Farms LLC is, ie how many units it entails? This is a list of known retailers in LA County that sold this batch, recalled because a unit tested positive for #H5N1 #birdflu. LA Public Health suggests this may be an incomplete list.
November 27, 2024 at 8:45 PM
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8/115 of farm workers in a convenience sample positive for H5N1 - original study here: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
November 8, 2024 at 12:58 AM
8/115 of farm workers in a convenience sample positive for H5N1 - original study here: www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...
Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior. Mary Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously despite proven competence and expertise. tinyurl.com/23l5uz25
Why are women still taken less seriously than men?
Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior at the workplace. Author Mary Ann Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways wo...
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November 1, 2024 at 5:27 PM
Women are routinely underestimated, overlooked, interrupted, talked over or mistaken for someone more junior. Mary Sieghart calls this the "authority gap" — all the ways women are (still) taken less seriously despite proven competence and expertise. tinyurl.com/23l5uz25
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Watch now - New trailer for: "The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care". ~80% of healthcare’s oversized carbon footprint derives from the production, transportation, use, disposal of a single-use medical supply chain. & Join us for a Hybrid Symposium - Nov 12, 4-7p ET youtu.be/rsVWSXE5kVI?...
The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care - Levi Symposium
YouTube video by JHU Online Program in the History of Medicine
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October 29, 2024 at 5:30 PM
Watch now - New trailer for: "The Value(s) of Disposability in Health Care". ~80% of healthcare’s oversized carbon footprint derives from the production, transportation, use, disposal of a single-use medical supply chain. & Join us for a Hybrid Symposium - Nov 12, 4-7p ET youtu.be/rsVWSXE5kVI?...
It’s #WorldStrokeDay Most common sign of a #stroke is sudden weakness of the face, arm, or leg, often on one side. Other Sx include dizziness, loss of balance and sudden difficulty speaking, seeing or walking. Seek medical care immediately. 👉http://bit.ly/3bmxIL8
October 29, 2024 at 5:39 PM
It’s #WorldStrokeDay Most common sign of a #stroke is sudden weakness of the face, arm, or leg, often on one side. Other Sx include dizziness, loss of balance and sudden difficulty speaking, seeing or walking. Seek medical care immediately. 👉http://bit.ly/3bmxIL8
@USCStemCell scientist Rong Lu and her collaborators point the finger at a small subset of blood stem cells that keep immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/the-secret-t...
USC Stem Cell mouse study sheds light on the secret to maintaining a youthful immune system - USC Stem Cell
What keeps some immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases? In a new paper published in Cellular & Molecular Immunology, USC Stem Cell scientist Rong Lu and her collabor...
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October 25, 2024 at 10:14 PM
@USCStemCell scientist Rong Lu and her collaborators point the finger at a small subset of blood stem cells that keep immune systems youthful and effective in warding off age-related diseases. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/the-secret-t...