We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever

Helpful hashtags for #cancer peeps! #CanSky #OncSky #MedSky #HemeSky

It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day. Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include: 🔹Leukaemia 🔹brain tumours 🔹lymphomas 🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour) Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B

💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering: 📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries 📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries. Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives 👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN

I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it "Distance" is a great way to understand this notion Thanks, Seye www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...

Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.

How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity who.foundation/blogs-post/h...

Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️

"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability" Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021” #SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity academic.oup.com/epirev/artic...

A (mostly) quiet hero.

Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking

#ASHKudos to Rachel Rau, Sumit Gupta, the whole AALL1731 study committee, all of our COG sites, and most importantly, our patients and families who made these results possible. So exciting to officially see these results on the big stage at #ASH24 (and presented by a great mentor too!)

I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine. Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia

The horse is out of the barn - financial toxicity is the unrecognized adverse event, and I am so proud of Dr. Greg Knight for his resilience in pioneering work to try to help manage it. @shematologist.bsky.social led an extraordinary Symposium on Quality at #ASH24 @ash-hematology.bsky.social

#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍 #ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology

Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status. Our system quite literally kills people.

"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner

This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎

Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity @c17council.bsky.social

Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂 go.bsky.app/R6cteE1

I created a starter pack for global health organizations Let me know who else I can add! go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV

A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...

"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky

Global Assessment of Palliative Care Need: Serious Health-Related Suffering Measurement Methodology www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...

Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks:

When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public. 101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.

Surveyed surviving caregivers had worse experiences including lower ratings for timely care & symptom management when their loved one died in hospices owned by private equity firms. 🏥💸⚕️More evidence that, when you run healthcare like a business, people suffer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This whole thread/blog post by @charlesgaba.com. People often get laser focused on what affects them. So, if nothing else, we advocates need to work on educating the general public on how the ACA protections benefit THEM. #NoLifetimeCaps #WeAreAllPreexistingConditions #publichealth #cancer #oncsky

Welcome all. Life in academia is particularly hard right now. Toward a modest improvement, consider sending Kudos Emails. Reach out to a stranger and say you liked their paper. This small mitzvah can make a world of difference. I’ve seen it happen. michaelkaspari.org/2016/05/23/o...

Hello new arrivals! There's no algorithm here, no ads, and a culture of inclusion. If you interact, people with interact back. Three things you can do straightaway to bloot like a pro- 1. Reconstruct networks 2. Starter packs 3. Alt text

We are guests in our patients lives

Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂 go.bsky.app/R6cteE1

If you're newly thinking about running for office, Run for Something has a great guide to all the different local offices you could consider, including responsibilities, salaries/hours, and requirements to run. localofficeguide.net

Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.

For new BlueSky users, please consider flipping the toggle to require Alt Text on all photos that you post. I did it when I started here and it did not take long to get used to it. It helps to make this community more inclusive.

To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁 A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health! communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...