Toxic men and their war mongering will make sure that there is always money for bombs, but not enough for healthcare

In Gambia is een babymeisje van een maand oud overleden nadat zij bij een illegale besnijdenis te veel bloed verloor. De dood van het meisje leverde in het West-Afrikaanse land grote verontwaardiging op. www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/g...

Delighted to share that @federics.bsky.social and I just published a new paper, Employed but unpaid… which is an investigation into the challenges faced by Sierra Leone’s many (possibly as many as half of the clinical health workforce) so-called volunteer health workers. One of the first in-depth …

It’s shocking that this needs to be said again and again, in 2025…

@doctorswithoutborders.org released a report this morning documenting the targeted, orchestrated killing of civilians at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites. Please read and do everything in your power to stop this. www.msf.org/not-aid-orch... 1/7

Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever. ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...

An important and eloquent letter from our friend and colleague, Roberto De Vogli - please read and share Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Just listened to the Nature podcast on this, fascinating. Congrats Dr Birhane

“Children are dying because medicines have been abruptly cut off, and risks of Ebola, tuberculosis and other diseases reaching America are increasing — while medicines sit uselessly in warehouses,” our columnist @nickkristof.bsky.social writes of U.S.A.I.D. cuts in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Such a fascinating paper:

My perspective piece in the Int J of Health Management and Planning was published today.

Help ons. We kunnen niet meer.. Pieter Derks youtu.be/jWBuexEdZ_M...

Why are more people not talking about this? Surely this needs to be made clear to a general public, some of whom really haven’t thought of this?!

(Part 1) Dr Pieternella Pieterse’s Research Ireland-funded study: What impact do unsalaried health workers in Sierra Leone have on healthcare delivery?... #Globalsurgery #GlobalSurgeryDay #GlobalSurgery10 @rcsi.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @p-pieterse.bsky.social

One of grants frozen at Cornell: $6.7M (4 yrs) to develop heart pumps for babies born w/ heart defects. It took decades of work to get to point of prepping device for in-human clinical trials. No private company could do this. The cruelty of the Trump administration is heartbreaking. So to speak.

My colleague and I returned to Sierra Leone to share our research findings last week. Due to a lack of funding for health (low priority + minimal tax income) health worker graduates are engaged in public health sector jobs on ‘voluntary’ = unsalaried basis. In primary care half of all staff is…

New WHO report “health gap targets will be missed, largely due to a lack of political will to tackle the structural drivers of poor health”

Here's a nice story for you: A group of young migrants in an asylum center in the Netherlands was gifted a fun day out to amusement park De Efteling. But after remarks on social media by asylum minister Faber, the trip was canceled. Today, crowd funds raised over 100,000 euros for a day out.

This is a truly inspiring group, a rare spark of hope in an otherwise bleak time for international cooperation and collaboration for the greater good of the planet and its peoples.

‘This is insane:’ New NIH policy on funding foreign scientists stirs outrage | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

The acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., has sent letters to several leading medical journals asking for information about their editorial practices.

American scientists: maybe just pretending as though we aren't subject to the capricious whims of a mad king *isn't* a sensible strategy? The damage to #research, to scientific progress, & to #PublicHealth is going to be generational. We *must* respond accordingly. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🛑 Jan 24, 2025: the U.S. freezes all foreign aid — including PEPFAR. 7 countries. 90 days. HIV treatment disrupted. Waivers? Incomplete. A new @thelancet.bsky.social study models the fallout. The results are devastating. 👇 www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl... #HealthPolicy 🧪🛟 💊🌐

We are in an *extraordinarily* dangerous moment for democracy, civil rights, & #PublicHealth. Share this video as widely as you can. Educate everyone you're able to. It's past time to push back *forcefully* against the ignorance & cruelty threatening us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8H34...

I keep coming back to this super effective framing: resistance to DEI and expanding equity is an attempt to maintain a monopoly over power, access, influence and opportunity

Vaccines save lives. Pass it on.

I don't get how anyone can possibly be okay with ending the WHI. This study has accrued decades of data from 42000 women and it is still going. It helps to address critical research gaps that have been allowed to go unfilled because of durable misogyny and provides invaluable insight into aging.

Every chance you get, say “fuck you” to authoritarian demands. One of the regime’s tools is making people believe resistance is futile—that acquiescence is the only option. But especially for those with power and privilege, the most basic, necessary act is to say: FUCK YOU.

Why and how academic medicine must champion diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility @arghavansallesmd.medsky.social @ananyatb.bsky.social @oniblackstock.bsky.social & colleagues @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Just came through to my email #Sudan #Ireland

US farmers sold $2 billion of food to USAID. Not any more. - US farmers provided 41% of food delivered by USAID - $340M of purchases/shipments are now paused. Over 680,000 tonnes. - Food stranded in Houston - Aid stopped in transit. The world’s poor starving, food rotting & US farmers screwed.

Presentation and poster at the EUPHA @eupha.bsky.social Health and Care Workforce midterm conference on Budapest

#AfricanHealthEconomics conference 2025, Kigali.

At the #RCSIResearchDay poster viewing, Dr @p-pieterse.bsky.social IGS Research Fellow, was sharing invaluable work with our RCSI colleagues on, "Unsalaried clinical health workers in Sierra Leone - What this means for public healthcare delivery." @rcsi.bsky.social @researchireland.bsky.social

NEW: One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, internal memos estimated. The USAID programs were cut anyway. By Brett Murphy and @annamaria.bsky.social