Wanda Pratt (she/they)
@profwanda.bsky.social
Professor. Health informatics and HCI researcher. Patient power advocate. Promoter of Health Equity and Justice. Feminist. Mom. Contra dancer.
People are being targeted now. How long before they come for me or you?
Federal health workers are expressing fear and alarm after a website called “DEI Watch List” published the photos, names and public information of a number of workers across health agencies, describing them as “targets.”
Federal health workers terrified after ‘DEI’ website publishes list of ‘targets’
The site calls out workers who have been involved with DEI initiatives. A majority are Black.
www.nbcnews.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
People are being targeted now. How long before they come for me or you?
All funding in any way related to transgender people has been pulled. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
Trans health, research programs ordered to stop by Trump administration
Despite litigation, federal officials are moving to cut off funding for efforts to improve the health of transgender people, leaving organizations in limbo.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
All funding in any way related to transgender people has been pulled. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
This is erasure of people and their safety. It matters.
1. The state department has removed transgender people from its website and just reads "LGB Travelers," as reported by a number of journalists.
However, on further investigation, it is also removing trans-specific directions for individual countries.
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However, on further investigation, it is also removing trans-specific directions for individual countries.
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State Department Travel Safety Website Changes "LGBTQI+ Travelers" to "LGB Travelers"
The change is an attempt to insert a divide in the LGBTQIA+ community by the Trump administration, and to erase transgender people from any consideration or recognition.
www.erininthemorning.com
February 4, 2025 at 9:23 PM
This is erasure of people and their safety. It matters.
Vast amounts of CDC health data are still unavailable (e.g., disease surveillance updates, outbreak dashboards), and huge amounts of data are being systematically CHANGED, endangering the integrity of that data and any studies using that data. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/data-and-c...
Data and communication are gold
What the hell is going on?
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Vast amounts of CDC health data are still unavailable (e.g., disease surveillance updates, outbreak dashboards), and huge amounts of data are being systematically CHANGED, endangering the integrity of that data and any studies using that data. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/data-and-c...
CDC ordered mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. This will delay or destroy important medical research! open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
CDC ordered mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. This will delay or destroy important medical research! open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
Never thought we would be referenced in the Wall Street Journal, but makes sense as their case example of "liberal group-think in science" for our work on detecting hidden bias in patient-doctor interactions. Scary times ahead. www.wsj.com/opinion/jay-...
Opinion | Jay Bhattacharya and the Vindication of the ‘Fringe’ Scientists
His NIH nomination, years after being maligned for questioning lockdowns, is a boon for real science.
www.wsj.com
December 3, 2024 at 6:03 PM
Never thought we would be referenced in the Wall Street Journal, but makes sense as their case example of "liberal group-think in science" for our work on detecting hidden bias in patient-doctor interactions. Scary times ahead. www.wsj.com/opinion/jay-...