It is often assumed that international law provides an absolute prohibition on attacks on healthcare facilities in war. It does not. But it should. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

We are in a constitutional crisis. Thank you congressmen Murphy and Raskin.

"I knew a premature VHF diagnosis could cause panic and have profound political implications." – A very strong piece in NEJM by Dr JP Sibomana on the personal and political complexity of diagnosing Rwanda’s first Marburg outbreak. doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2413951

We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD go.bsky.app/RScFWyt go.bsky.app/ADqkPeH Will keep updating!

imagine if you could imagine things and then they were just like you imagined. well, now we all get to live there -- or else

(1/5) The past months, I’ve heard many stories of people losing family members to asthma because they couldn’t access medication. Asthma inhaler prices were already high, but have increased by 2-5x over the last years in many countries. www.bbc.com/news/videos/... www.voanews.com/a/nigerians-...

Have been dabbling a bit outside of the global health/medicines sphere lately. This Thursday I am speaking about countries' legislative frameworks for cell-based meat at the International Bar Association on behalf of the FAO. 🧫🥩https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2628

And if you plan to host global health events and meetings, here is a list of visa friendly countries communities.springernature.com/posts/visa-f...

@jessicareinisch.bsky.social So cool you’re researching UNRRA! I’m preparing a short piece on the role UNRRA/WHO in the local production of antibiotics atm :) Would love to discuss!

Hello new followers from that bleak gray place! Reposting my first post on this site: a cyanometer, the instrument Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine how blue any sky actually was

Hey #AMR people - am wanting to broaden the capture of the feed for other languages so if you know the key words for antimicrobial resistance in another language, please drop it in the replies below!

Natuure: 2020 Nobel Prize winners Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier ask that two of their EU CRISPR patents be cancelled. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Old definitions of 'drugs'/'medicines' form a problem for controlling antimicrobial use. Two main Qs are: (1) Does this definition include medicated feed for animals? (Probably) (2) Does this definition use the use of mediciens as growth promotors? (Probably not) Out of scope = uncontrolled use

Pictures of a stroll along Lumley Beach in Freetown after giving a workshop on reforming the governance of veterinary medicines for One Health Day last week.

Updated Global Health Nerds starter pack Will create part 2! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD

Citing @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social’s Tweet from last month, Twitter is losing users in a massive way.

A starting line up of global health folks who work across law, policy and ethics. There are many others to add - please share widely and suggest additions! go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1

Back from Sierra Leone, where we launched AMR campaigns on TV/radio. Yet WhatsApp groups are the main news source. Quality reporting mixes there with anti-chemo content, making posting a dilemma... This new information age + attention economy is an unprecedented challenge. Glad to join #bsky

Just started here, this is a great resource! Thanks @madhupai.bsky.social