We are all set for the 3rd Reimagining Global Health course, starting June 8th! If you are from a low-income country, or are a student, and would like a fee waiver, please contact me We have 10 free spots! www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...

Me in my Bluesky Bubble

My kid's summer camp form asks for detailed info and proof of routine vaccinations. And then has an option to just click that you've opted out for "biophysical or personal choice reasons." So, I guess carry on with our vibes-based, science-free society, everyone.

We did, in fact, do this. 💔

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Bella gives you permission to take a lil nap

I just talked to a Congolese doctor who is treating Ebola patients in Bunia, the epicenter of the outbreak. Story to come, but he's very worried that the international response doesn't look anything like it used to.

Having students in the field is *so* much more nerve-wracking than doing it myself. But my student navigated a roadblock by Colombian guerrillas like a champ 😅

As Ebola resurfaces in eastern DRC and Uganda, familiar patterns are returning too. Fear, travel bans, stigma, and selective compassion. I wrote about what this outbreak about preparedness, whose lives we value and what we owe each other. bktitanji.substack.com/p/what-we-ow...

And universities are being further gutted by new rules requiring 'temporary' visa holders (mist academics come on J or H1Bs) to return to their home countries to apply for green cards. Our universities are being torn apart. This will affect at least 5 people on my immediate projects.

Have you had any difficulty accessing miscarriage care after the Dobbs decision? I'd love to talk with you for a story I'm writing. (Please share!)

This isn't what makes the DRC an "Ebola hotspot." This is racist bullshit (and I'm a medical anthropologist whose whole job is to care about how culture shapes health). Conflict, chronic under-investment, and US carelessness make DRC a hotspot.

#ALIMA is right to call attention to this. This #Ebola outbreak is extraordinarily complex, and will be impossible to bring it under control if the very places where patients seek care are under attack. Healthcare should never be a target under any circumstance.

Can confirm. 🫠

Nothing can beat an elementary school getting out for summer! Absolutely immaculate vibes

Decisions are hard.

In a recent meeting Him: I think [insert name] would be a perfect collaborator for you. If you can ignore the sexist language. Me: 😱 Just another day in global health. Why are we like this?! #IgnoreNothing

“This is a profound revelation,” Prasad wrote in the memo. “For the first time, the U.S. FDA will acknowledge that COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children.” What the report ACTUALLY said: “No cases [of pediatric deaths] were classified as certain in relation to COVID-19 vaccination”.

Just got the most soul-destroying ChatGPTed request for a letter of recommendation 🫠 Sigh. But I'll use it as a teaching opportunity because my goal is to support students, not judge or punish them

We're seeing the effects of a US global health that only purports to care about 'global health security.' And we're not even getting that right (not even close) with travel bans.

The WHO has warned that these losses weaken outbreak surveillance &emergency response capacity globally. You cannot dismantle pieces of the global public health infrastructure, retreat from international cooperation, and then rely on border restrictions as the primary defense vs.emerging pathogens.

A Review in Communications Medicine explores Long COVID — which affects more than 400 million people globally — including current knowledge, gaps and future directions for research, diagnosis and treatment. go.nature.com/4unyxtI #medsky 🧪

I was tempted to wear pajamas with a sweater on top to my son's middle school graduation so the other parents would recognize me 🫣

Oh. Ok.

Who among us hasn't accidently misspelled an email signoff and then just decided to leave <Beset> as a more accurate reflection of reality?

Bringing some of my thoughts together. And explaining why hantavirus is emphatically not COVID news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

My daughter's pithy summation: "Covid reminded people they lived in a society; and they hated it."

Enjoying a treat in one of my favorite places in Guatemala 🩵🇬🇹

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My driver just locked our doors, cracked the windows, and started blaring religious music. It's created a forcefield around the taxi. I'm dying (and living my best anthropologist life) 😂

Chicas are approaching cars and trucks. Mixed responses, quite a bit of laughing. Fun turnabout with the women catcalling men trapped in vehicles.

Stuck in a traffic jam on the Panamerican Highway in Chimaltenango, Guatemala, which is the prostitution capital of Central America. Things are getting interesting. (And for the record, sex work is work.)

Look, I'm not yet very worried about hantavirus. Even Andes isn't considered a disease of pandemic potential. But to be clear, hantavirus isn't "mild." You don't get a touch of hantavirus.

I recently moderated a panel on the crisis of ICE detention centers, with @andreapitzer.bsky.social & Drs Beyrer, Rogers, & Brinkley-Rubinstein The panelists offered GREAT advice on steps we can all take—local & national, small & large—to address the crisis Recording at warpwire.duke.edu/w/MUoJAA/

A beautiful reminder that other countries have worked their way out the other side, and the US can, too (sound on!)

Grifters without Borders™️ (It's spreading. Spotted in Guatemala)

It works!!!!!! We can detect E.coli instantly in water samples. Way more to come! 🙌

The risk of hantavirus for the vast majority of the world is extremely low. But it's serving as a warning sign of how poorly equipped the US is for outbreaks -- which is worrying, given predictions of another pandemic within decades. My latest: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

You know what, fuck you. Covid has drastically altered my life and killed two (healthy fwiw) relatives. And most importantly, PEOPLE WITH CHRONIC CONDITIONS DESERVE TO LIVE.

Can we build a low-cost microscope for community-based water quality testing? @josegm.bsky.social is getting close! A great day working with staff at Ecofiltro Guatemala E.coli, soon you'll have no place to hide! 🚫💩🚰

Rode in chicken busses and micros all day, starting at 5 am, to spend time with midwives using safe+natal to make births safer in rural Guatemala. My favorite kind of day in global health! safenatal.org

"Trump and RFK were 'quite litterally [sic] fighting demonic forces to return the CDC to real science'” Really important (and painful) piece on the rise of Christofascism in US public health

🧵 UPDATE: WHO has released a full situation report on the Hondius hantavirus outbreak. New details change the picture. Here's what's new: www.who.int/emergencies/...

Not a loud white lady broadcasting that she's going to help poor people on my flight to Guatemala 😑 #DecolonizeGlobalHealth

It finally happened. After trying and returning multiple pairs of cuter, more expensive sneakers for travel, I'm in the airport wearing old lady sketchers. Like I'm 99% certain my 82 yo mother in law has the same pair 😆

Hantavirus on a cruise. Absolute nightmare fuel. Really grateful for WHOs response.

I, for one, am resigned to gasping my last while clutching a vial of bespoke tincture. We could have just had vaccines like a normal country, but no, some of ya'll wanted this.

Yesterday’s Supreme Court decision on the Voting Rights Act was also a decision about health equity. When communities have less power to shape the policies that govern their lives, they have less power to shape the conditions that determine their health.

Guys! GUYS! It's back! It's coming back!!! The single greatest literacy promotion in human history* is coming back! All you 80s and 90s kids know what's up! *(this point may be a little hyperbolic, but just a little) people.com/pizza-huts-b...