Stephanie Chamberlin
@stephcham.bsky.social
Global health | International Education | Social Scientist
www.stephaniechamberlinphd.com
www.stephaniechamberlinphd.com
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This point needs to be elevated every day as we discuss the value of foreign aid! I wrote a blog post related to this and the critical contributions that H.I.V. patients make to ending the epidemic:
yoursay.plos.org/2022/06/we-n...
yoursay.plos.org/2022/06/we-n...
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Elie’s comments are giving me life rn
I'm going to be on with @velshi.com at 11 to talk about my article on the small acts of noncompliance that we can take against our dispicable government.
I guess Summer is over.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
I guess Summer is over.
www.thenation.com/article/acti...
On the Power of Small Acts of Noncompliance
At a moment when large-scale resistance can feel futile,
there are other ways to oppose, engage, and fight back.
www.thenation.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Elie’s comments are giving me life rn
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They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
August 12, 2025 at 4:51 PM
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
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It is important that people understand that only building engineering prevented this being a wholesale slaughter of dedicated public servants.
The man who attacked the CDC fired more than 180 shots into the campus
Man Fired 180 Shots, Shattering 150 Windows, In CDC Attack
Bullets pierced "blast-resistant" windows, and it could take weeks or even months to repair the damage, agency officials said.
www.huffpost.com
August 12, 2025 at 2:21 AM
It is important that people understand that only building engineering prevented this being a wholesale slaughter of dedicated public servants.
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I keep seeing this and other news stories about lenacapavir going viral, so, respectfully...
The approval of lenacapavir PrEP, standing alone, absolutely will NOT bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We have highly effective HIV preventive meds for over a decade now, and yet the epidemic continues.
The approval of lenacapavir PrEP, standing alone, absolutely will NOT bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We have highly effective HIV preventive meds for over a decade now, and yet the epidemic continues.
If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.
July 28, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I keep seeing this and other news stories about lenacapavir going viral, so, respectfully...
The approval of lenacapavir PrEP, standing alone, absolutely will NOT bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We have highly effective HIV preventive meds for over a decade now, and yet the epidemic continues.
The approval of lenacapavir PrEP, standing alone, absolutely will NOT bring the HIV epidemic to an end. We have highly effective HIV preventive meds for over a decade now, and yet the epidemic continues.
❓ We often think more education = better health. But is that true for all health outcomes, in all settings? Maybe not…context matters!
✅ What does matter for HIV care is social support and literacy and numeracy skills--gained through schooling or elsewhere.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅ What does matter for HIV care is social support and literacy and numeracy skills--gained through schooling or elsewhere.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
‘You don’t need schooling—just take the pills and don’t stop.’: Pathways between formal education and chronic HIV care in Malawi
Research on chronic care management from other settings indicates that people’s formal education (e.g., primary, secondary, and tertiary schooling) ma…
www.sciencedirect.com
July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
❓ We often think more education = better health. But is that true for all health outcomes, in all settings? Maybe not…context matters!
✅ What does matter for HIV care is social support and literacy and numeracy skills--gained through schooling or elsewhere.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
✅ What does matter for HIV care is social support and literacy and numeracy skills--gained through schooling or elsewhere.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades.
osf.io/preprints/so...
osf.io/preprints/so...
May 26, 2025 at 5:33 PM
More than 9,000 studies, reports, & book chapters published based on 400+ DHS surveys that were conducted in 91 countries, according to our bibliometric analysis (by @aasli.bsky.social). The termination could set the global research community back for years or even decades.
osf.io/preprints/so...
osf.io/preprints/so...
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Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful.
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
June 25, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Kennedy provides a bunch of references for his claim that thimerosal in vaccines (barely used anymore) is harmful.
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
If a high-school student submitted this as their reference list, they would fail.
I will do what Kennedy didn’t - actually look at them. 🧵
New publication! The education of a community shapes how people gain sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, and this differs for men and women in Uganda.
Super excited to share this work that I started my first year in my PhD program!
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Super excited to share this work that I started my first year in my PhD program!
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Community and Individual Education Influences on Sexual and Reproductive Health Knowledge in Uganda: A Human Capital and Social Learning Perspective - Population Research and Policy Review
Higher levels of both individual education and community education may facilitate improved sexual and reproductive health knowledge, but our understanding of this relationship in sub-Saharan Africa re...
link.springer.com
June 25, 2025 at 8:07 PM
New publication! The education of a community shapes how people gain sexual and reproductive health (SRH) knowledge, and this differs for men and women in Uganda.
Super excited to share this work that I started my first year in my PhD program!
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Super excited to share this work that I started my first year in my PhD program!
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link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
June 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We're tired of the false information and wrote this letter to the NIH director Jay Bhattacharya. FACT: clinical trials have been halted. With real ethical impacts. Is this what Americans want to be known for? Let's see what the director says.
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I know many academic journal editors here - who else is getting these letters?
The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.
April 17, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I know many academic journal editors here - who else is getting these letters?
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Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
April 14, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Criminals deserve due process because due process is literally how we determine whether someone is, *in fact*, a criminal
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Pete is right, as usual.
These people cannot keep America safe.
I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
These people cannot keep America safe.
I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Pete is right, as usual.
These people cannot keep America safe.
I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
These people cannot keep America safe.
I’m embarrassed to be an American now more than ever.
@petebuttigieg.bsky.social
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Speaking as an HIV clinician who knows how far we have come in treating and preventing HIV and how much more work we still have left to do, gutting domestic HIV prevention in the US will be the biggest blow to fighting HIV in recent memory and will erase crucial gains.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
Exclusive | Trump Administration Weighing Major Cuts to Funding for Domestic HIV Prevention
The plans could be announced as soon as within a day, people familiar with the matter said, if the administration goes ahead.
www.wsj.com
March 18, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Speaking as an HIV clinician who knows how far we have come in treating and preventing HIV and how much more work we still have left to do, gutting domestic HIV prevention in the US will be the biggest blow to fighting HIV in recent memory and will erase crucial gains.
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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Without phone support, resolving payment issues, verifying official communications, and addressing urgent concerns would be much harder, increasing financial hardship and fraud risks.
March 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Without phone support, resolving payment issues, verifying official communications, and addressing urgent concerns would be much harder, increasing financial hardship and fraud risks.
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Below is a STAGGERING (growing & non-exaustive) list of organizations that have been forced into layoffs or furloughs because of dodgy DOGE federal contract cancellations ❗
www.linkedin.com/posts/esteba...
www.linkedin.com/posts/esteba...
March 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Below is a STAGGERING (growing & non-exaustive) list of organizations that have been forced into layoffs or furloughs because of dodgy DOGE federal contract cancellations ❗
www.linkedin.com/posts/esteba...
www.linkedin.com/posts/esteba...
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Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday
Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...
MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...
NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...
RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...
Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...
WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...
MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...
NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...
RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...
Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...
WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
March 8, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Whelp ed research orgs had mass lay-offs yesterday
Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...
MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...
NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...
RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...
Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...
WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
Mathematica: www.linkedin.com/posts/mathem...
MDRC: www.linkedin.com/posts/mdrc_t...
NORC: www.linkedin.com/posts/dan-ga...
RTI: www.linkedin.com/posts/no%C3%...
Westat: www.linkedin.com/posts/westat...
WestEd: www.linkedin.com/posts/amyhre...
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This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
BREAKING: On a 5-4 order, SCOTUS denies DOJ’s motion to vacate Judge Ali’s State/USAID order, but notes that his prior deadline passed, so Ali is going to have to go back to the drawing board and “clarify” what the gov’t needs to do, “with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines.”
![SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
No. 24A831
DEPARTMENT OF STATE, ET AL. U. AIDS VACCINE ADVOCACY COALITION, ET AL.
ON APPLICATION TO VACATE THE ORDER ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
(March 5, 2025]
On February 13, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia entered a temporary restraining order enjoining the Government from enforcing directives pausing disbursements of foreign development assistance funds.
The present application does not challenge the Government's obligation to follow that order. On February 25, the District Court ordered the Government to issue payments for a portion of the paused disbursements-those owed for work already completed before the issuance of the District Court's temporary restraining order-by 11:59 p.m. on February 26. Several hours before that deadline, the Government filed this application to vacate the District Court's February 25 order and requested an immediate administrative stay. THE CHIEF JUSTICE entered an administrative stay shortly before the 11:59 p.m. deadline and subsequently referred the application to the Court. The application is denied. Given that the deadline in the challenged order has now passed, and in light of the ongoing preliminary injunction proceedings, the District Court should clarify what obligations the Government must fulfill to ensure compliance with the temporary restraining order, with due regard for the feasibility of any compliance timelines. The order heretofore entered by THE CHIEF JUSTICE is vacated.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:36eqtmzysqf7wsslczw4uxcd/bafkreiancyolrpahy5eevk7jckhjxanf3xodqpitrzmowz5o6ke7ukg7sq@jpeg)
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.
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A Wisconsin appeals court ruled that a longstanding state financial aid program for minority students is illegal, citing the Students for Fair Admission decision (which didn't cover financial aid). (h/t @chronicle.com)
Wisconsin appeals court shuts down state-funded college grant program for minority students
The Wisconsin appeals court on Wednesday struck down a state grant program intended to give certain minority students a financial boost after admission.
www.courthousenews.com
February 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
A Wisconsin appeals court ruled that a longstanding state financial aid program for minority students is illegal, citing the Students for Fair Admission decision (which didn't cover financial aid). (h/t @chronicle.com)
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This is truly devastating. Without DHS, countries' and partners' ability to monitor trends and identify gaps informing where to target global health interventions related to maternal & child health, stunting, intimate partner violence & so much more is severely weakened.
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The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night
www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...
February 26, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is truly devastating. Without DHS, countries' and partners' ability to monitor trends and identify gaps informing where to target global health interventions related to maternal & child health, stunting, intimate partner violence & so much more is severely weakened.
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Wisconsinites! If you are a scientist, love a scientist, or benefit from science - we need YOU! Join us on March 7th as we #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
February 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Wisconsinites! If you are a scientist, love a scientist, or benefit from science - we need YOU! Join us on March 7th as we #standupforscience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
@standupforscience.bsky.social
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No words. This is absolutely horrendous news
The Demographic and Heath Survey program received their USAID termination email last night
www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...
www.linkedin.com/posts/caren-...
February 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
No words. This is absolutely horrendous news
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On March 7, STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! Rally and protest. Washington DC and nationwide. Get more info here: standupforscience2025.org
Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social
Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social
February 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
On March 7, STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! Rally and protest. Washington DC and nationwide. Get more info here: standupforscience2025.org
Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social
Please forward to spread the word. #standupforscience2025 #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #WomenInSTEM @standupforscience.bsky.social
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Thanks to Scientific American for featuring Stand Up for Science! 🧪☀️🌎
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
February 25, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Thanks to Scientific American for featuring Stand Up for Science! 🧪☀️🌎
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall
www.scientificamerican.com/article/stan...
#standupforscience2025 #scienceforall