Local communities are the first responders before emergency services and humanitarian actors arrive after disasters - decolonizing aid needs to support self-determination, hopefully we will see more of this at conference.ihsa.info; a resource list to start: www.thenewhumanitarian.org/feature/2022...

At last 🙌🏾 journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Brocher Meet Up #25 Impact of policy shifts on public and global health and health ethics ICYMI👇🏾 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eKM...

Tomorrow!!

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

#BrocherMeetUp #IRGGHJ @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, Olusoji Adeyi, @lisaaeck.bsky.social & Sridhar Venkatapuram Seismic shifts: US policy and impacts on science, public and global health, and health ethics April 23, 2025 – 3:30 pm CET, 9:30 am Eastern Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Please join and share 👇🏾

SAVE THE DATE: April 23, 3:30 pm CET/9:30 am eastern. Brocher and the Independent Resource Group for Global Health Justice host: Seismic Shifts: US Policy Changes and Impacts on Science, Public Health and Global Health, and Health Ethics. Details to follow.

Excellent contribution www.thehastingscenter.org/plan-safegua...

Rise up (don’t be livin’ on your knees) 🌷

Well, UMN has officially been hit. We just got an email from our president that an international grad student was detained yesterday. No further details provided. This. Is. Crushing.

#Breaking - WHO issues starkest warning yet on fallout from U.S. withdrawal of aid for global health

#Breaking: HHS plans to slash 10,000 jobs under Secretary RFK Jr.

In interviews, state health officials predicted that thousands of health department employees and contract workers could lose their jobs nationwide. Some predicted the loss of as much as 90 percent of staff from some infectious disease teams. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/h...

As scientific censorship gains a toehold under the Trump administration, "journals must remain committed to editorial independence and the integrity of the published record," says AJPH Editor-in-chief Alfredo Morabia. Read his comments now ⬇️

A fine piece! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/26/o...

Art FTW 🙌🏾 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On brazenness and hierarchies of humanity www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/w...

From an operational security perspective, this is the highest level of fuckup imaginable. These people cannot keep America safe.

"This is not an administration that's known for being terribly forgiving. Are you putting your jobs at risk by speaking out?" "Hell, yes." Neuroscientist Jonathan Jackson on the need for scientists to speak out despite personal risks at #STATBreakthrough:

Final keynote @bjgp.bsky.social @bjgpopen.bsky.social @drrageshri.bsky.social talking about silencing read @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social review of book here bjgplife.com/silencing/

Government Science Data May Soon Be Hidden. They’re Racing to Copy It. Vast quantities of climate and environmental information have been removed from official websites in the past months. Scientists are trying keep it available. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/c...

Armed mob www.thehandbasket.co/p/us-institu...

I want you to understand this is happening in our name and we know most of these men committed no crimes. One is a professional soccer player who was tortured in Venezuela and was working through asylum in the U.S. ICE shipped him for his Real Madrid tattoo and a picture throwing rock & roll horns.

Former FBI agent John Buma, a whistleblower who accused the bureau of suppressing his investigative work on topics including Rudy Guiliani's ties to suspected Russian agents, was arrested yesterday in New York and charged with disclosure of confidential information, per an FBI spokesperson.

State Department stop-work order on foreign aid leaves doctors, nurses, program managers, and social workers concerned about patients — and their future.

...which had the purpose of circumventing the source country's laws on interrogation, detention, extradition and/or torture. Extraordinary rendition is a type of extraterritorial abduction.....a rendition that is extralegal, i.e. outside the law (see: kidnapping)."

Again, as I said previously: this is a business deal. Bukele built this megaprison and needs bodies to fill it. Trump is paying $6-8 million of our tax dollars for Bukele to take these men in as forced labor. I'm sure there were other deals made as well.

A good reason to get out there and protest now is that it will serve as a rehearsal for when we'll need massive people power in the streets to fight off the imposition of a MAGA dictatorship. The courts aren't going to be enough to stop these people. We'll need you, your family and your friends.

BREAKING: The Trump Administration has declared war on the United States Institute of Peace

Federal judges:

a fun fact is that precedent on this is walker v city of birmingham, in which the warren court affirmed that even if a court injunction is itself illegal it must be heeded until overturned, upholding contempt convictions for violating it, including that of martin luther king, jr.

Still working on getting more info. If you work at USIP, I'm marisakabas.04 on Signal.

CFPB workers are reinstated after a court order, but many still can’t work

Alas the agony of sorting through all the unjustified distrust *and the misplaced trust. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Multiple sources tell me AHRQ is about to be destroyed. A terrible loss for our country.

Looking forward to read it! I really liked your article about the ethics of the temporary, by the way. I mentioned it here:

and in navigating the ethical dilemmas that are being faced this @humoutcomes.bsky.social guide might be helpful - humanitarianoutcomes.org/humanitarian...

Unjust and a mere $16 million price tag. #efficiency

Commentary sent to Lancet on (un)ethical humanitarian closures.🤞🏾🤞🏾🤞🏾Brocher meet up in the works.

Try to do public health ethics - or work in public health or social medicine anyway, without using any of these words. #bioethics

Now they’re coming for the art www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

And then www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is us m.youtube.com/watch?v=qc-p...