Nicole E. Basta
banner
nicolebasta.bsky.social
Nicole E. Basta
@nicolebasta.bsky.social
Infectious Disease Epidemiologist | Canada Research Chair in Infectious Disease Prevention | Associate Professor @McGill | Affiliate Faculty @UMN & @FHCC | UW PhD | Cambridge MPhil | Princeton AB | 🇺🇸in🇨🇦
Sustaining & advancing vaccine-preventable disease control is more difficult than ever

It's going to take all of us dedicated to this field & the very latest innovations to turn the tide

More info coming soon - course dates May/June 2026

Please reach out with any questions/ideas in the meantime
November 26, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Now, more than ever, public health requires leaders at the very highest levels doing more than just tearing things down.

It requires leaders who value people and communities & who can point to how their efforts and leadership have improved people’s lives.

What is public health for, if not that?
August 16, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Building a brighter future and creating change is hard.

Public health has been doing that hard work for centuries-with lots more to do.

That hard work only has gotten harder, more complex, more challenging.
August 16, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Attacking, scapegoating, sowing anger, and fabricating mistrust against public health is easy.

Anyone can do it.

Some of those appointed to lead have spent their whole careers doing only that.

But it takes more than repeating a long list of complaints to lead.
August 16, 2025 at 4:38 PM
NEJM @nejm.org should issue a correction based on this evidence…if they want to uphold the gold standard of evidence-based scientific publishing
May 22, 2025 at 5:04 PM