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URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions.
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
Tell Democrats to Stand Up for Public Health in the Budget
With negotiations on a short-term continuing resolution (CR) to keep the government open past September 30th at a standstill, Defend Public Health believes that House and Senate Democrats MUST play ha...
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September 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
URGENT! Write your Democratic Senators and Reps with a plea to stand firm in the budget negotiations. If we don’t prevail now, we will end up with huge budget cuts to public health programs and workforce and loss of health care access for millions.
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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"250 years ago, 40% of kids never made it to adulthood. Today, it’s 4%. The majority of that decrease is due to vaccines. Vaccines have saved more lives than any other type of medical intervention, including antibiotics, including everything. Vaccines have saved an enormous number of lives."
September 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
"250 years ago, 40% of kids never made it to adulthood. Today, it’s 4%. The majority of that decrease is due to vaccines. Vaccines have saved more lives than any other type of medical intervention, including antibiotics, including everything. Vaccines have saved an enormous number of lives."
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Grant Watch — now called Grant Witness — is the leading watchdog of lost research dollars from the NIH and NSF. I wrote about how the site came to be and about Scott Delaney (@scott-delaney.bsky.social), the Harvard research scientist who helped make it happen: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/b...
How a researcher from Medfield created the go-to database of federal research cuts - The Boston Globe
A lawyer-turned-Harvard scientist built what was known as Grant Watch from a Google spreadsheet over a matter of months.
www.bostonglobe.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Grant Watch — now called Grant Witness — is the leading watchdog of lost research dollars from the NIH and NSF. I wrote about how the site came to be and about Scott Delaney (@scott-delaney.bsky.social), the Harvard research scientist who helped make it happen: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/b...
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You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
July 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM
You are cordially invited to our Anti-Prime Sale, where every purchase will financially support bookstores, NOT billionaires 🥳
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
www.nytimes.com
June 28, 2025 at 8:36 AM
How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...
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It's not just academia that will be affected by the disruptions to research funding
https://go.nature.com/4noApj5
https://go.nature.com/4noApj5
The economic effects of federal cuts to US science — in 24 graphs
Nature - Is US science facing a recession? Growing evidence points to a looming downturn.
go.nature.com
June 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
It's not just academia that will be affected by the disruptions to research funding
https://go.nature.com/4noApj5
https://go.nature.com/4noApj5
An awfully misleading headline. What they are promising is to NOT FOLLOW SCIENCE and instead risk children’s health. It’s not scrutiny when you undermine safe and effective prevention measures.
June 26, 2025 at 10:42 AM
An awfully misleading headline. What they are promising is to NOT FOLLOW SCIENCE and instead risk children’s health. It’s not scrutiny when you undermine safe and effective prevention measures.
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RFK Jr. is a menace to the health of children worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency
www.nytimes.com
June 25, 2025 at 4:01 PM
RFK Jr. is a menace to the health of children worldwide. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/25/h...
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Secretary Kennedy's statement to Gavi, the vaccine alliance, is literally sickening. Sickening because millions of children’s lives are in the balance because of Mr. Kennedy’s fringe beliefs and misinformation on vaccines.
June 25, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Secretary Kennedy's statement to Gavi, the vaccine alliance, is literally sickening. Sickening because millions of children’s lives are in the balance because of Mr. Kennedy’s fringe beliefs and misinformation on vaccines.
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DEADLINE for TAG + WHO's Community Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Long-Acting Technologies for TB Treatment and Prevention Survey is Monday, June 23 at 5 PM NYC. taglink.info/m/TBLATs
June 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
DEADLINE for TAG + WHO's Community Perceptions and Preferences Regarding Long-Acting Technologies for TB Treatment and Prevention Survey is Monday, June 23 at 5 PM NYC. taglink.info/m/TBLATs
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“universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs…
NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…
75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…
75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
We set out to quantify U.S. academic contributions to medicines. The results stunned even us
From 2020 to 2024, universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs. 87% of those academic breakthroughs came from American institutions.
www.statnews.com
June 7, 2025 at 5:21 PM
“universities contributed patents underpinning 50% of FDA-approved drugs…
NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…
75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
NIH-funded basic science has contributed to the development of more than 90% of new medicines, vaccines, and devices…
75% of scientists in America were considering leaving the country.”
www.statnews.com/2025/06/06/u...
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I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
Medical Research Funding — Unbreaking
How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.
unbreaking.org
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
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Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
April 28, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Deaths from heart disease down 75%, that’s NIH.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
Deaths from stroke down 75%, that’s NIH.
HIV/AIDS no longer a death sentence, that’s NIH.
99% of FDA approved drugs in the last decade, that’s NIH.
Please show this video to anyone who doesn’t understand why the NIH is so important.
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📌WEBINAR Integrating Pandemic Preparedness & Response in Community-led Monitoring Mechanisms
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @matahariglobal.bsky.social
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @matahariglobal.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 8:38 AM
📌WEBINAR Integrating Pandemic Preparedness & Response in Community-led Monitoring Mechanisms
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @matahariglobal.bsky.social
📅 April 24, 2025 (Thurs)
⌚17:00-19:00 Bangkok / 10:00-12:00 GMT / 12:00-14:00 CET
Register 👉 bit.ly/42kOfdX
PLUS: Look out for our CLM-PPR toolkit with @matahariglobal.bsky.social
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TAG, with support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, is surveying to support TB vaccines. Responses to the survey will help produce a final report that will make recommendations to funders, vaccine developers, and other global health organizations. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/survey-commu...
April 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
TAG, with support from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, is surveying to support TB vaccines. Responses to the survey will help produce a final report that will make recommendations to funders, vaccine developers, and other global health organizations. www.treatmentactiongroup.org/survey-commu...
Lawsuits will come and stop this, what worries me is what happens in the interim. How to stop those school districts that will take this as an opportunity to further roll back protections for students and influence what important lessons cannot be taught in schools.
Breaking News: The Trump administration threatened to withhold funding from public schools unless DEI programs it deemed unlawful were eliminated.
Trump Administration Threatens to Withhold Funds From Public Schools
State education officials will be required to verify that they have eliminated all programs that promote diversity, equity and inclusion that the administration deems unlawful, according to a new memo...
www.nytimes.com
April 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Lawsuits will come and stop this, what worries me is what happens in the interim. How to stop those school districts that will take this as an opportunity to further roll back protections for students and influence what important lessons cannot be taught in schools.
If you have access, please see my recent letter with @treatmentactiongroup.org, Jennifer Furin, and Christophe Perrin. Thank you to Erica Lessem and Mike Frick for their support! Equitable access needed in clinical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Equitable access needed in clinical research
In her News story “Cornerstone medical ethics guidelines get a major update” (1 November 2024, p. 473), C. O’Grady describes recent changes to the Declaration of Helsinki (1). Although the revision in...
www.science.org
April 3, 2025 at 12:08 AM
If you have access, please see my recent letter with @treatmentactiongroup.org, Jennifer Furin, and Christophe Perrin. Thank you to Erica Lessem and Mike Frick for their support! Equitable access needed in clinical research | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The U.S. has actively dismantled the global disease-detection programs we all—including Americans—rely on to stay safe
Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse
It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world
Why?? 🧵
Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse
It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world
Why?? 🧵
March 26, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The U.S. has actively dismantled the global disease-detection programs we all—including Americans—rely on to stay safe
Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse
It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world
Why?? 🧵
Today this administration’s short-sighted global health agenda got even even worse
It’s ending its support for vaccine programs around the world
Why?? 🧵
Re-upping this one. Can't let this slip by under the radar.
Please comment.
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Re-upping this one. Can't let this slip by under the radar.
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2025: #TB community is confronting clinic closures, treatment pauses & cancelled clinical trials in fallout from USAID grant terminations.
TAG + our allies remain dedicated to fighting for everyone, everywhere to have access to TB treatment, diagnosis, & prevention. We WILL fight #WorldTBDay2025
TAG + our allies remain dedicated to fighting for everyone, everywhere to have access to TB treatment, diagnosis, & prevention. We WILL fight #WorldTBDay2025
March 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
2025: #TB community is confronting clinic closures, treatment pauses & cancelled clinical trials in fallout from USAID grant terminations.
TAG + our allies remain dedicated to fighting for everyone, everywhere to have access to TB treatment, diagnosis, & prevention. We WILL fight #WorldTBDay2025
TAG + our allies remain dedicated to fighting for everyone, everywhere to have access to TB treatment, diagnosis, & prevention. We WILL fight #WorldTBDay2025
Please comment.
The HHS rule banning trans care from many ACA plans is open for public comment now. Only 3 comments so far.
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Embarrassing how the media is completely ignoring this. There's likely over 200,000 trans people on ACA plans (1% of 24 million)
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
March 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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I hate that I'm retweeting this. We should not be here. And yet we are. Thank you to the activists who have been working tirelessly to protect everyone when the government does not.
Practical facts about stopping ART if your clinic is closed: webinar on safety and risk i-base.info/stopping-art... @hiv-i-base.bsky.social #HIV #PEPFAR
Practical facts about stopping ART if your clinic is closed: webinar on safety and risk | HIV i-Base
i-base.info
March 21, 2025 at 4:24 PM
I hate that I'm retweeting this. We should not be here. And yet we are. Thank you to the activists who have been working tirelessly to protect everyone when the government does not.
Writing a personal security plan in case I can't re-enter the US seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do this Friday morning. #flashback
March 21, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Writing a personal security plan in case I can't re-enter the US seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to do this Friday morning. #flashback