I needed this: "In the shared act choosing to care, we can find a way forward. One rooted in fairness, shaped by resilience and elevated by hope. Even when institutions falter, the mission doesn’t have to." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

Malnutrition treatments halted in Ethiopia due to underfunding, WFP says reut.rs/4jB8BVW

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

It is disheartening to see this happen to such a leader in the field of nutritional sciences.

Nutrition is the key determinant to health. It's staggering that nearly 3 billion people cannot afford a healthy diet. I arrived in Paris to join President Emmanuel Macron & health leaders at the Nutrition for Growth Summit, as we need continued investment and a laser-focus on ending malnutrition.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This is a rather depressing time to be a scientist.

SCOOP: The world is likely to see millions more malaria infections and 200,000 cases of paralytic polio each year, according to a whistle-blower from USAID. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/h...

🧵 PIH condemns, in the strongest possible terms, the Trump Administration's mass termination of United States Government grants and contracts supporting essential health care delivery and humanitarian assistance around the world. Here’s what you need to know—and how you can take action 👇

3. All supplies of US-manufactured emergency food packets for starving children on the brink of death – terminated. newrepublic.com/article/1919...

A lot of what we know about global health comes from the DHS. We use it to track maternal & child nutrition trends. I have published 4 papers using its data & I use it in my classes. It celebrated its 40yr anniversary last year. It was ended, unceremoniously, yesterday.

Awful news --> Delivery of therapeutic food assistance to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is suddenly in doubt due to Trump-Musk firings at USAID, two manufacturers of the product tell me. "Starving children are waiting," one says. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/1919...

The Global Nutrition Council in @nutritionorg.bsky.social will be hosting a listening session to hear how members have been affected by the recent events. We invite you to join and to share your ideas for action! 📅 February 26 at 11 am EST ✅ Registration: discover.nutrition.org/content/asn-...

FEWS NET, the U.S. early warning system for famine, shut down after the foreign aid freeze. What are the consequences? And why does the U.S. has a famine early warning system in the first place?

New perspective in #AJCN highlights the detrimental consequences of the US' withdrawal from WHO and the dismantling of USAID on global health and nutrition. ASN stands with our many affected members in the global nutrition community and beyond. ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...

The shocks to the global nutrition system should be a concern to nutrition scientists and nutrition advocates everywhere. Please read and share our perspective published open access in AJCN today. 👇

"Toddlers are starving because emergency feeding centers supported by USAID have run out of the nutrient-rich paste used to save the lives of severely malnourished children. Nearby warehouses have the paste but can’t release it without a waiver from the agency..." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/12/o...

Trump’s sudden cutoff of funding and staff at USAID has meant the loss of “almost all ability to track $8.2 billion in unspent humanitarian aid…, a government watchdog warned Monday.” This whole wire report on the accelerating catastrophe bears reading. www.therepublic.com/2025/02/10/u...

From independent @USAID sources, >800 contracts and awards are being terminated en masse – with the procurement team subject to hourly checks on speed of executing terminations. The pace has exceeded the ability to confirm whether lifesaving assistance or any Congressional mandate is affected.

Here are some facts about "facilities and administrative" (F&A) costs, what we in the business call "indirects" and what Musk is calling "overhead" as he tries to convince Americans with being ok with cutting billions on dollars from medical and public health research at universities & hospitals 1/

“We are witnessing one of the worst and most costly foreign policy blunders in U.S. history.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/o...

U.S. businesses that sold goods and services to USAID are in limbo, including American farms dealing in rice, wheat and soybeans purchased as food aid.

Suddenly cutting off USAID left people around the world with experimental drugs and medical products in their bodies, cut off from the researchers who were monitoring them, and generating waves of suspicion and fear. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

Think about this for a second.

@USAID is enduring an unlawful shutdown, purge, and dismantling. It’s thrown its vital work into turmoil—based on spurious, absurd, and willfully slanted attacks. Here's what’s real: the massive and growing harm now being caused. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

Good graphic by WaPo showing Canada (purple), China (brown), Mexico (blue) and other top suppliers by share of value of goods imported by the US in 2023. “One of the first places US shoppers may feel the impact of increased tariffs is in the grocery aisle…” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.” The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

End Appears Near for U.S. Aid Agency, Democratic Lawmakers Say [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Scientists at the CDC were ordered late on Friday to withdraw any pending publications, at any scientific journal, that mention terms such as “transgender,” “immigrant,” “L.G.B.T.” or “pregnant people.” www.nytimes.com/live/2025/02...

I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...

My @newyorker.com piece on the ongoing, likely unconstitutional funding freeze at USAID now imperiling millions: “This is not a pause. It is a destruction.” USAID is also where the Administration is testing out its playbook for eviscerating other agencies. www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

NEW: The Trump admin told a US-funded aid group that gives food & medicine to starving children in Sudan to shut down. Children would die. They’re defying the order. But the aid world is in chaos. Brett Murphy & Anna Barry-Jester: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

More on FEWSnet shutdown from Devex:

The USAID-led Famine Early Warning System (FEWSNet) is "currently unavailable." This is the preeminent global early warning tool for acute food insecurity and has traditionally had bipartisan support in Congress. static.fews.net

This has been a devastating week. The stakes could not be higher for young children who depend on these programs. www.devex.com/news/how-tru...

“Hundreds of people were laid off today by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) as the Trump Administration's stop-work order for foreign assistance goes into effect.” - Fatma Tanis / NPR Goats and Soda www.npr.org/sections/goa...

BREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...

U.S. public health officials have been told to stop working with the World Health Organization, effective immediately.

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

What happened when Trump uprooted the USDA ERS? This is a good read. www.science.org/content/arti...

#HealthForAll For everyone. Everywhere.

Hi, Vox reporter here: If you've had a study section, NIH travel, or other NIH-related meeting cancelled (or not), raise your hand! Reply or DM me, and repost for visibility if you're able. #academicsky @drugmonkey.bsky.social

WHO is far from perfect but unlike USAID & most NGOs, it tries to build the health system of countries. It works closely with governments so that, in theory, they get stronger & more independent. WHO pulls together scientists around the world so that data is shared faster. It keeps us safer.

"It's a cataclysmic presidential decision. Withdrawal is a grievous wound to world health, but a still deeper wound to the US" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

This is so short-sighted.