“The HHS secretary pulls the CDC website into his fantasyland.” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

This is why we continue to call out dangerous attempts to dismantle public health in a short comment section on our Tracking Report. In today's report, I expressed outrage over the recent changes in language about vaccines on CDC's website. A most dangerous development that must be undone!

But while our Tracking Report is an attempt to help people identify credible health information, independent expert analyses like ours can never be replacement for evidence-based communication and information from government health agencies. Independent analysis is necessary but not sufficient.

Today's outrageous report of political tampering with vaccine information on CDC's website is yet another reason why independent, expert analyses of health information is necessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

Every week, we provide independent analysis of on-going outbreaks and other serious health events. Increasingly, we've had to look beyond federal health sources for this information. 2/

Tomorrow marks the 1yr since launch of the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social's Tracking Report. Originally started to keep ourselves updated on the plethora of serious outbreaks, this free, weekly newsletter has taken on a new purpose as credible health info disappears. mailchi.mp/brown/tracki...

“The bigger issue is that we will never be able to do a study that shows that vaccines do not cause autism, because you cannot do that kind of study...You cannot show that something does not cause something else.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...

I am thrilled to see my @pandemiccenter.bsky.social colleague and friend @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social being recognized as a top changemaker. Beth is unmatched in her determination and energy in working to take biological threats off the table. To know Beth is to be inspired. Brava, friend!

Hey, 269 people have registered for our Dec 2 webinar on the future of global health (moderated by me!) but don't worry, you can cure your FOMO by registering now: duke.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Spark talk by John-Arne Røttingen Panelists: Ebere Okereke, Nina Schwalbe, Osondu Ogbuoji, Sam McPherson

Grateful to @gabbystern.bsky.social for joining us today to share insights about communication as a key infrastructure to support global health in a conversation moderated by @craigspencer.bsky.social

📣 Attention Brown University Community! Join us in person next week @ 12PM for our next Public Health in Practice Seminar. Join @craigspencer.bsky.social & @gabbystern.bsky.social for a timely discussion on health communication as essential infrastructure for global health. More here ⤵️

Global health financing is shrinking as pandemic risks are rising. A G20 High Level panel on Pandemic Financing on which I served has called for urgent action from governments to protect against catastrophic losses. bit.ly/pandemicfina... #pandemicpreparedness #globalhealthsecurity

I am very glad for this important global effort to maintain progress on pandemic preparedness. Kudos to @pandemiccenter.bsky.social 's @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social for helping to lead this progress.

Rhode Island aurora.

DC-area folks: check this out!

The sun came out for a few minutes during the Veterans’ Day Ceremony just as we were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Canada lost its measles elimination status. The US is likely next (our 12month countdown ends in Jan). What an embarrassment. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I enjoyed the book launch of Fair Doses at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. For those that missed it, here is the podcast. www.csis.org/podcasts/com...

"an initial field test from the HAZMAT team did not detect anything hazardous but the investigation, and efforts to identify the nature of the white substance remain ongoing... individuals taken to the hospital were treated for their symptoms and subsequently released" www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Fmr Sec Rice: “We are a nation of immigrants. We must stand up for them.”

“In America…we are united by creed…it doesn’t matter where you came from, it only matters where you are going. But that can only be true if people get a high quality education.”

Sec Rice: “We need to preserve the ability of people in universities to come up with ideas and get government research grants to innovate” “I definitely think the US must be the place that welcomes the best talent in the world…I worry that…people wonder if the US is still the best place to come.”

Brown University President Christina Paxson in conversation with Fmr. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial lecture.

The moon this morning was 🤩

"Other countries have seen the drama as an 'once-in-a-century brain gain opportunity,'” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

I’m not going to say that mRNA vaccines are the be all and end all. But we have no other tool in our armamentarium that are as fast and as flexible an option as planning for a pandemic or other biothreat says @drsethberkley.bsky.social

The Trump Administration deserves a lot of credit for Operation Warp Speed, which took the risk of opening the treasury to fund the development of COVID vaccines says @drsethberkley.bsky.social

Discussing his book “Fair Doses” @csis.org @drsethberkley.bsky.social says The world has changed since COVID but the lessons are the same. Vaccines aren’t going to go away. Conspiracy theories won’t always rule the day.

Happy Publication Day to @drsethberkley.bsky.social!

The erosion of global health funding and programs is making America and the world less secure Excellent piece by @pandemiccenter.bsky.social ‘s @drsethberkley.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/10/28/g...

NEW: The entire staff supporting ACIP was laid off, and most working groups haven't met in months. That means the US may not make routine vaccine recommendations for more than half of children in 2026, and it could halt new vaccines in the pipeline. My latest: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Please join us on Friday, October 24

Dr. Eli Adashi, Dean Emeritus @brownmedicine.bsky.social, accepts the Walsh McDermott Award from @nam.edu

DC folks! Check out Warka Coffee at 505 New Jersey Ave NW. Awesome, veteran-owned (US Army) shop featuring Ethiopian-origin coffee. If you like light/medium roasted African coffees this is the place for you.

“Really, what’s the alternative?..You’ve got a CDC that has been hijacked by people who are obscuring or denying facts, and you have life-and-death decisions that have to be made.” www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The US is now more vulnerable to a biological attack of other serious disease emergency than it has been in a very long time. www.wired.com/story/cdc-te...

Transparency, trust-building efforts, and protecting the independence of public health institutions must guide our collective actions. By learning from this cautionary tale, we can act decisively today to safeguard the health and security of future generations.

It’s a proud day for Brunonians everywhere! www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Some of these people have now been fired and rehired TWICE since January. The current state of dysfunction is mind boggling.

This would be a welcome development because the alternative is death by hemorrhaging.

A self inflicted “massacre”. www.statnews.com/2025/10/11/c...

The United States has never been more vulnerable to a biological attack. Our adversaries know no one is tending the store.

An insightful piece by @jakescottmd.bsky.social

"Most of the American public does not approve of the way Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running the nation’s health agencies, according to a new KFF poll, and there’s an erosion of trust in reliable vaccine information from the federal government in particular." www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/h...

If this reduces barriers for pregnant women to get vaccinated, it would be a very welcome development. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

“I certainly didn’t expect to win the Nobel Prize,” he said from a hotel in Montana. “It never crossed my mind.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/h...

People are awesome.

Thoughtful perspective from @adamfrank4.bsky.social "I believe the first step out of the maze for young men begins by reasserting to them the virtue of hard work — an often grueling but indispensable part of finding the right answers in science." 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...