Lisa Hansen
@teachepi.bsky.social
Field epidemiologist and recovering anthropologist. Interested in science policy, public health capacity and 📚
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What role will #mRNA technology play in the future of Canadian #HealthCare? Join us for a documentary screening and dialogue with mRNA pioneers and leading experts in #PublicHealth, medical anthropology, clinical practice and regulatory affairs. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rna-health...
October 23, 2025 at 6:58 PM
What role will #mRNA technology play in the future of Canadian #HealthCare? Join us for a documentary screening and dialogue with mRNA pioneers and leading experts in #PublicHealth, medical anthropology, clinical practice and regulatory affairs. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rna-health...
ESCAIDE 2025 - A summary of day 1 www.escaide.eu/en/news-even...
ESCAIDE 2025 - A summary of day 1
The opening day of ESCAIDE featured sessions on public health governance, artificial intelligence, global epidemic intelligence, and science-based leadership.
www.escaide.eu
November 20, 2025 at 4:36 PM
ESCAIDE 2025 - A summary of day 1 www.escaide.eu/en/news-even...
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When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
November 8, 2025 at 5:31 PM
When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB
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Join @healthjournalism.org for a webinar with @drdemetre.bsky.social, @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Daniel Jernigan next Wednesday and find out what went down at the #CDC, what will happen next, and what needs to happen to preserve the integrity of public health infrastructure in the U.S.
Remember when several high-ranking #CDC officials resigned after #RFKJr refused to follow scientific evidence & federal procedures in #vaccines & #publichealth policy? Here's a chance to hear from three of them on Nov 19 w @healthjournalism.org
Register here!
healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Register here!
healthjournalism.org/event/trust-...
Trust, public health reporting and the CDC: Insider perspectives
In this webinar, we'll talk with former CDC officials on where to go for reliable reporting resources after the dismantling of the agency.
healthjournalism.org
November 11, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Join @healthjournalism.org for a webinar with @drdemetre.bsky.social, @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Daniel Jernigan next Wednesday and find out what went down at the #CDC, what will happen next, and what needs to happen to preserve the integrity of public health infrastructure in the U.S.
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:13 PM
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication
Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
www.statnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:27 AM
NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com
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'You know it's artificially induced" --families destroyed over this, it's so so terrible. "No mercury in the vaccines, no aluminum in the vaccines, the MMR should be taken separately" based on what Trump feels. Good lord we're back to Wakefield.
September 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
'You know it's artificially induced" --families destroyed over this, it's so so terrible. "No mercury in the vaccines, no aluminum in the vaccines, the MMR should be taken separately" based on what Trump feels. Good lord we're back to Wakefield.
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Some foreign regimes exploit major events to distort online content and push manipulated information. By hiding their role, their lies look real and spread fast.
See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e
#ThinkBeforeYouShare
See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e
#ThinkBeforeYouShare
September 17, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Some foreign regimes exploit major events to distort online content and push manipulated information. By hiding their role, their lies look real and spread fast.
See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e
#ThinkBeforeYouShare
See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e
#ThinkBeforeYouShare
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1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*.
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health
Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com
September 13, 2025 at 9:32 PM
1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*.
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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🌍 #openscience in action! Join Michaela Th. Mayrhofer @i-med.ac.at and Alexander Kohls @cern.bsky.social for a roundtable on transformative #openscience across disciplines. Learn how FAIR principles and collaborative culture are driving transparency, innovation, and global impact. #osfestival2025
September 6, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🌍 #openscience in action! Join Michaela Th. Mayrhofer @i-med.ac.at and Alexander Kohls @cern.bsky.social for a roundtable on transformative #openscience across disciplines. Learn how FAIR principles and collaborative culture are driving transparency, innovation, and global impact. #osfestival2025
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🕺💃 It takes three to tango: #OpenScience, #CitizenScience & #SciComm. Katharina Rieck moderates this roundtable with Daniel Dörler, Katja Mayer, and Franz Kerschbaum - exploring overlaps, differences & shared challenges between openness, participation & communication. #CitizenScience #osfestival2025
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
🕺💃 It takes three to tango: #OpenScience, #CitizenScience & #SciComm. Katharina Rieck moderates this roundtable with Daniel Dörler, Katja Mayer, and Franz Kerschbaum - exploring overlaps, differences & shared challenges between openness, participation & communication. #CitizenScience #osfestival2025
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This is an understatement: “Mr. Kennedy’s defiant performance at the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, his critics say, put on vivid display what happens when someone with no medical or scientific training and a conspiracy-minded approach takes charge of the nation’s public health”
Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies
www.nytimes.com
September 7, 2025 at 7:13 PM
This is an understatement: “Mr. Kennedy’s defiant performance at the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, his critics say, put on vivid display what happens when someone with no medical or scientific training and a conspiracy-minded approach takes charge of the nation’s public health”
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Came across a brilliant article about the problems with how health equity has often been conceptualized (that white communities don't realize that they benefit from attempts to improve health equity).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Health Equity Benefits All Communities (Including White Ones)
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Came across a brilliant article about the problems with how health equity has often been conceptualized (that white communities don't realize that they benefit from attempts to improve health equity).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including…
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including…
Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites - Canada News Beep
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including at a grocer, retail outlet, government
www.newsbeep.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including…
https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/
Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week — including…
Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
Opinion | Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine
www.nytimes.com
July 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...
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#Hepatitis update you should know:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.
⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mjGQCY
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.
⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mjGQCY
July 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
#Hepatitis update you should know:
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.
⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mjGQCY
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.
⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/4mjGQCY
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New post by me on the implications for global science from America's scientific retreat and what we need to do about it.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...
this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...
this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
America’s retreat from science has far-reaching implications for global research and innovation
The immediate impact on US science and global health is devastating, but the implications for global science go further and we need to protect it.
christinapagel.substack.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM
New post by me on the implications for global science from America's scientific retreat and what we need to do about it.
christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...
this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...
this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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The important characterisation of the UK pop'n from More In Common highlights v low levels of trust in most former 'authoritative' professions.
Scientists are the exception.
Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
Scientists are the exception.
Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
July 16, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The important characterisation of the UK pop'n from More In Common highlights v low levels of trust in most former 'authoritative' professions.
Scientists are the exception.
Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
Scientists are the exception.
Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.
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Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you listen to music harder
July 15, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you listen to music harder
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I'm hiring! Talk Science to Me Communications is looking for a senior science editor.
Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.
#science #scicomm 🧪
www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...
Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.
#science #scicomm 🧪
www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...
We’re Hiring a Senior Science Editor - Talk Science To Me
Talk Science to Me Communications Inc. is seeking a senior editor. Talk Science to Me is a publications support firm offering writing, editing, design and consulting services, and the parent company o...
www.talksciencetome.com
July 8, 2025 at 9:52 PM
I'm hiring! Talk Science to Me Communications is looking for a senior science editor.
Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.
#science #scicomm 🧪
www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...
Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.
#science #scicomm 🧪
www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...
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Scientists, let's share our work with the public, so they can know how our work benefits their everyday health and wealth. Share your research & story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch
Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Major update to #SCIMaP visualization of impacts of cuts to federally supported health research. Map now includes information on future economic losses (impact of proposed reduction of NIH IDC to 15%) and current economic losses (impact of terminated NIH grants).
scienceimpacts.org
scienceimpacts.org
May 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Scientists, let's share our work with the public, so they can know how our work benefits their everyday health and wealth. Share your research & story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch
Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters
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An important follow up to the previously reported "undiagnosed" New Brunswick neurological disease. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
New Brunswick has no mystery neurological disease, scientific study concludes | CBC News
A new scientific study has found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in New Brunswick, says a report published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association, known as JAMA.
www.cbc.ca
May 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
An important follow up to the previously reported "undiagnosed" New Brunswick neurological disease. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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📣 Federally funded scientists!
Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ⤵️
Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ⤵️
May 5, 2025 at 4:51 PM
📣 Federally funded scientists!
Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ⤵️
Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ⤵️