Lisa Smith Kilpela
@lsmithkilpela.bsky.social
Associate Professor @UTHealthSA @ReACHCntr | Beeson Scholar | Barshop Institute for Longevity and Aging Studies | Clinician Scientist | Views are my own
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Reposted by Lisa Smith Kilpela
Word of wisdom from @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social are applicable to U.S. scientists of all disciplines!
➡️ “Too often, young scientists focus only on their next step (or next NIH grant) and do not take a long view.”
✅ He advises: think long-term, be strategic & flexible
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
➡️ “Too often, young scientists focus only on their next step (or next NIH grant) and do not take a long view.”
✅ He advises: think long-term, be strategic & flexible
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
June 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Word of wisdom from @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social are applicable to U.S. scientists of all disciplines!
➡️ “Too often, young scientists focus only on their next step (or next NIH grant) and do not take a long view.”
✅ He advises: think long-term, be strategic & flexible
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
➡️ “Too often, young scientists focus only on their next step (or next NIH grant) and do not take a long view.”
✅ He advises: think long-term, be strategic & flexible
#PsychSciSky
#AcademicSky
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If you are considering a career in #aging health, look into the #T32 and #T35 programs with #NIA at #NIH. Trainees must be US citizens or permanent residents. #geronsky
Institutional Research Training Grants
NIA funds T32 grants to support training programs at institutions based in the United States to support predoctoral and/or postdoctoral researchers. Trainees appointed to a T32 are expected to pursue ...
www.nia.nih.gov
April 28, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Reposted by Lisa Smith Kilpela
It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
April 24, 2025 at 5:50 AM
It’s #WorldImmunizationWeek
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
Vaccines have saved 154 million lives in the last 50 years. That’s 6 lives every minute.
A reminder of what is #HumanlyPossible. Science saves lives.
#VaccinesWork
bit.ly/wiw2025
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⚰️ The US now ranks 33rd in infant mortality. We just don’t care about our babies (or their moms) outside of talking points.
April 23, 2025 at 1:50 AM
⚰️ The US now ranks 33rd in infant mortality. We just don’t care about our babies (or their moms) outside of talking points.
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President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
scim.ag
April 23, 2025 at 1:44 PM
President Donald Trump’s administration appears to be killing much, if not all, of a historic initiative that was the first, and is still the largest, National Institutes of Health effort centered on the health needs of women. scim.ag/4jLeLTJ
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I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:57 PM
I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.
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Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH cancels its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 23, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Well the NIH has cancelled the Women's Health Initiative, the largest study of women in history
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
It has been running continuously since 1991 and has provided massive key knowledge about diseases in women
Unreal
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
Our Health ROI
Explore how your tax dollars fund life‑saving medical research.
www.ourhealthroi.com
April 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Ever wonder how many lives have been saved by NIH-funded research - including your own? Enter any medical condition and instantly see how your tax dollars transformed science into survival.
www.ourhealthroi.com
www.ourhealthroi.com
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My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
April 17, 2025 at 11:22 AM
My adult daughter Rachel works everyday, pays taxes, loves going to movies with her friends, and listens to awful (IMO) music.
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
Our U.S. Dept HHS has lost all of its humanity, compassion, and intellectual curiosity
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My @houstonchronicle.com OpEd is out in today's Sunday paper!
"Without federal funds, health-related scientific work will grind to a halt....You can make a difference."
Please read & share! 🙏
@bcmhouston.bsky.social
@sbm.org
@academyhealth.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
"Without federal funds, health-related scientific work will grind to a halt....You can make a difference."
Please read & share! 🙏
@bcmhouston.bsky.social
@sbm.org
@academyhealth.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 12:59 AM
My @houstonchronicle.com OpEd is out in today's Sunday paper!
"Without federal funds, health-related scientific work will grind to a halt....You can make a difference."
Please read & share! 🙏
@bcmhouston.bsky.social
@sbm.org
@academyhealth.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
"Without federal funds, health-related scientific work will grind to a halt....You can make a difference."
Please read & share! 🙏
@bcmhouston.bsky.social
@sbm.org
@academyhealth.bsky.social
@altnih4science.bsky.social
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📢Trump is waging an all-out assault on women's health.
Let's break down what he cut, why it matters, and the impact on women nationwide. 👇🧵
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Let's break down what he cut, why it matters, and the impact on women nationwide. 👇🧵
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
How Trump's CDC Purge Will Affect Reproductive Health: 'Women Will Die'
CDC staffers and medical experts sound the alarm on how the gutting of the federal health agencies will put women’s lives at risk
www.rollingstone.com
April 7, 2025 at 8:52 PM
📢Trump is waging an all-out assault on women's health.
Let's break down what he cut, why it matters, and the impact on women nationwide. 👇🧵
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Let's break down what he cut, why it matters, and the impact on women nationwide. 👇🧵
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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WHO estimates that six in 100 people, including children, with COVID-19 will develop Long COVID. In the U.S., one study estimates that 11 million people live with Long COVID. Symptoms can vary from mild to devastating and can persist for months or years. There's no cure.
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
Post COVID-19 condition (long COVID)
WHO fact sheet on post COVID-19 condition (long COVID), including key facts, scope of the problem, symptoms, treatment, self-care and prevention.
www.who.int
April 8, 2025 at 12:10 AM
WHO estimates that six in 100 people, including children, with COVID-19 will develop Long COVID. In the U.S., one study estimates that 11 million people live with Long COVID. Symptoms can vary from mild to devastating and can persist for months or years. There's no cure.
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
www.who.int/news-room/fa...
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As I describe in an infographic in my new @plos.org article, given the massive size of our awful 4-state measles epidemic that began in West Texas, a second measles death is sadly predictable and >50 hospitalizations. This is so sad and was totally unnecessary
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29
journals.plos.org
April 6, 2025 at 11:58 AM
As I describe in an infographic in my new @plos.org article, given the massive size of our awful 4-state measles epidemic that began in West Texas, a second measles death is sadly predictable and >50 hospitalizations. This is so sad and was totally unnecessary
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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My thoughts @kffhealthnews.org on the proposed dismantling of AHRQ
We need safety research to protect our patients from harms in health care. No organization in the world does more for that than AHRQ.
Let the general public know.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
We need safety research to protect our patients from harms in health care. No organization in the world does more for that than AHRQ.
Let the general public know.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
What’s Lost: Trump Whacks Tiny Agency That Works To Make the Nation's Health Care Safer - KFF Health News
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality helped improve health care safety in a country where thousands die of medical errors each year. It was effectively dissolved Tuesday.
kffhealthnews.org
April 3, 2025 at 10:26 PM
My thoughts @kffhealthnews.org on the proposed dismantling of AHRQ
We need safety research to protect our patients from harms in health care. No organization in the world does more for that than AHRQ.
Let the general public know.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
We need safety research to protect our patients from harms in health care. No organization in the world does more for that than AHRQ.
Let the general public know.
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
1/
April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
1/
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
1/
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Students in our Public Health Emergencies: Disaster Planning and Response course are putting together Virtual Medical Operation Center Special Reports on measles 2x a week. Information in this post was compiled from these reports. Read the full reports ⬇️
www.slideshare.net/YALE-ESF8--V...
11/11
www.slideshare.net/YALE-ESF8--V...
11/11
April 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Students in our Public Health Emergencies: Disaster Planning and Response course are putting together Virtual Medical Operation Center Special Reports on measles 2x a week. Information in this post was compiled from these reports. Read the full reports ⬇️
www.slideshare.net/YALE-ESF8--V...
11/11
www.slideshare.net/YALE-ESF8--V...
11/11
Reposted by Lisa Smith Kilpela
NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track trends in substance use in the US. NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track adolescent mental health problems in the US.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
The entire SAMHSA staff that manages the National Survey on Drug Use and Health has been terminated. This is the only survey that tracks mental health and substance use trends in the US.
We really are flying blind now.
We really are flying blind now.
April 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track trends in substance use in the US. NSDUH is one of the only ways we can track adolescent mental health problems in the US.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
We cannot afford to fly blind on these critical issues.
Reposted by Lisa Smith Kilpela
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...
talkingpointsmemo.com
April 1, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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...
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There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
The CDC Has Been Gutted
Thousands of CDC employees who worked on things like preventing HIV and lead poisoning have been told they were subject to a reduction in force. Experts say people will die.
www.wired.com
April 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
There is no other way to say this: Today is the day the CDC was essentially dissolved. What's left is a husk. People will die as a direct result.
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
www.wired.com/story/cdc-gu...
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On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts.
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
go.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 5:58 PM
On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts.
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
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If, like me, today's mass firings of CDC, NIH, and FDA scientists has left you heartbroken and looking for ways to fight for science and public health - check out @apha.org
www.forourhealth.org
www.forourhealth.org
For Our Health
www.forourhealth.org
April 1, 2025 at 6:11 PM
If, like me, today's mass firings of CDC, NIH, and FDA scientists has left you heartbroken and looking for ways to fight for science and public health - check out @apha.org
www.forourhealth.org
www.forourhealth.org
Reposted by Lisa Smith Kilpela
The NIH distributes approximately $37B in external grants/awards in FY 2024. These grants/awards have a force-magnifying effect, generating $2.56 of economic activity for each $1 supported, i.e., more than $94B in activity and more than 400K jobs
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
The NIH distributes approximately $37B in external grants/awards in FY 2024. These grants/awards have a force-magnifying effect, generating $2.56 of economic activity for each $1 supported, i.e., more than $94B in activity and more than 400K jobs
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/annual-econo...
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🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision.
Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...
Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...
UPDATE: RECOVER Long COVID pathobiology grants restored - The Sick Times
Long COVID research grants from the National Institutes of Health’s RECOVER program will be restored following news stories about their abrupt cancellations and advocacy to restore the funding, accord...
thesicktimes.org
March 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🚨 BREAKING: Long COVID research grants rescinded earlier this week have been restored, according to researchers & patient reps. Advocates organized quickly yesterday in response to the news, helping reverse the decision.
Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...
Exclusive in @thesicktimes.bsky.social
thesicktimes.org/2025/03/28/u...