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Brittany Charlton
@britshmit.bsky.social
Epidemiologist 📊 • Associate Prof at Harvard Med School & School of Public Health • Founding Director LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence • Views=own• Mom of 3 kiddos • she/her + 🏳️‍🌈
🎙️ "Science Under Siege" panel via @statnews.com — powerful & urgent

“Americans who deserve better — especially those who rely on government systems — will suffer and die because of what RFK Jr & his allies are doing.”

🎯 A few other standout remarks that hit hard👇🧵

#STATBreakthrough
May 14, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This isn't just our fight — it's yours 💪🏽🏳️‍🌈

▶️ Make a gift to rescue our Center

▶️ Volunteer your expertise, time, or resources

▶️ Organize others in your community

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Heroes show up 🦸🏽

✨Join the fight ➡️ hsph.me/lgbtq-gifts

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#SupportScience #StandUp
April 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🚨Breaking: Filed declaration in my lawsuit against #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

I refuse to be silent—silencing science endangers everyone

Full declaration: hsph.me/lgbtq-declaration

⬇️ Highlights in🧵 ⬇️

🙏🏻 @aclu.org @protectdemocracy.org @aclum.bsky.social
@cspinet.org #AntiFascist
April 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
🧬 Science is at a crossroads

Join us for a vital panel hosted by @bostonglobe.com

Federal science agencies face mass layoffs, & major institutions are losing key funding

Where does science go now? Let’s talk about it.

📍April 22 | Boston & Online

Register 🔗 scienceatacrossroads.splashthat.com
April 21, 2025 at 2:50 AM
Legal filing 👇

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April 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Shoutout to all of the champions of this case! 🌟🙌

Special thanks to Special Counsel, Shalini Goel Agarwal, at @protectdemocracy.org! 💪⚖️

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April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🔍💔 Take a look at @bostonglobe.com spotlight on our Center's funding cuts

Ironically, went online Wed during @hsph.harvard.edu's media retreat session & printed in Sun paper

Props to @rickberke.bsky.social for nudge to share, but (for once) I was step ahead 👉 hsph.me/lgbtq-Globe-...

#MedSky
April 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
✨Yesterday's sweeping layoffs at #CDC, #NIH, & #FDA were devastating

Yet, amidst chaos, I found hope: winning my first local election. 🎉🗳️

Queer representation matters 🌈

Hope elections (& courts!) are bulwarks against autocracy. May they protect our freedoms & democracy 💪❤️

#Resist #Science
April 2, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated

Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of
1️⃣ my career (as I know it)
2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social
3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work

Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈

You with us?
March 22, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Want to help more?

🔴Vote in local & national elections
🔴Run for office (even if it's just locally like I'm doing 👇)

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March 21, 2025 at 12:24 PM
With a new year ahead, we’re ready to fight for LGBTQ health equity within the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at @harvardchanschool.bsky.social and @deptpopmed.bsky.social

Full video: hsph.me/lgbtq-videos

#LGBTQHealthExcellence #LGBTQHealth #QueerEpi
January 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
📢Boston friends: Join us to launch the LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health & Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute

All welcome! Face painting & reading with Drag Queen Story Hour available 🌈

Open to the public, registration required: hsph.me/lgbtq-launch
May 26, 2024 at 11:13 AM
👋 Let me introduce myself. I’m an epidemiologist & Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School & the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

I research LGBTQ reproductive health disparities; follow if you care about topics like abortion access among queer folks 🏳️‍🌈 or like musings on academia
July 25, 2023 at 3:23 AM