In Haiti, our team's newest research adds evidence to the link between gang violence & the 2022 cholera resurgence. In a collaboration with Haiti's Ministry of Health we investigated the outbreak: www.ajtmh.org/view/journal...

$2.1 billion is the equivalent of 🌍 military expenditure every 8h $2.1 billion is the price of 1 stealth bomber $2.1 billion is 1/4 of what the tobacco industry spends on advertising & promotion every year. It seems somebody switched the price tags on what is truly valuable in our world. #WHA78

This could end virtually all trade with Haiti, if actually enforced. Very little comes or goes out of Port-au-Prince without some payments being made. Humanitarian access programs would also likely cease. Can't enter a community to disperse aid without negotiations.

Uganda has declared the end of Ebola disease outbreak, less than three months after the virus was confirmed. Robust, coordinated response by the government, supported by WHO and partners, was critical in stopping the outbreak.

📢 #PandemicAccord? YES! 💉 This agreement represents a commitment to equity and coordinated action to prepare, prevent, and respond to future pandemics. 🎆 Thank you, member states, for your unified support of multilateralism & global solidarity. @panaction.bsky.social @helenclark001.bsky.social

Not a ton of good news in public health these days. But this morning at 3am, governments around the globe reached consensus on a global pandemic treaty. „The achievement of finding consensus in a world torn asunder by the Trump administration cannot be overstated“, Lawrence Gostin told me. 🧪

The book we all need !

WHO proposes a Billion Dollar Cut to its Budget for 2026-27 to US$4.2 billion, DG Signals Plans to Shed Jobs Citing $600 Million Hole This Year Geneva Health Files Newsletter Edition #263 [The Files Flash] genevahealthfiles.substack.com/p/who-propos...

#Angola has been experiencing a large #cholera outbreak since January 2025. To date, 8 000+ cases & 320+ deaths have been reported. The outbreak is affecting much of the country with the highest number of cases reported from the region around Luanda. 🧵 Here's what is known so far: bit.ly/4hRi6z2

#USA: the decision to end support for Gavi puts millions of children’s lives at risk. It's estimated that more than 1.2 million children may die as a result of this political decision. www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/us-de...

Measles and you: virus, symptoms and white blood cells Here's a measles infographic prepared using a range of sources and some feedback from the public. It aims to present measles symptoms and the levels of the virus and white blood cells in your blood over time. Here, I add the words to help…

Very well explained!

Job opening for Director of our amazing research unit in Gambia, West Africa. Feel free to message me if you have questions, or contact the recruiters. Details in link below. Closing 2nd May. candidates.perrettlaver.com/vacancies/46...

Desperate situation in Haiti just keeps worsening 💔💔 apnews.com/article/hait...

#Afghanistan: One child has died from measles each day in Afghanistan in 2025, according to data we collected at three hospitals where we work. See all the data and get the whole story about this alarming surge in cases: www.msf.org/msf-records-...

Vaccines do not cause autism. If you need a quick reference to studies that disprove this relationship: Commentary, how we got here: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... Meta-analysis synthesizing the results from studies on almost 1.3 million children: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

NIH just posted this news announcement. "Today the National Institutes of Health is announcing plans to centralize peer review of all applications for grants, cooperative agreements and research and development contracts within the agency’s Center for Scientific Review (CSR)"

H5N1 D1.1 isn't your grandpa's bird flu Most human cases have been mild, but D1.1 hits harder—linked to: Severely ill child (BC) Death (Louisiana) Hospitalization (CO, from WY) Dairy herds & a worker (NV) Wild birds spread D1.1 along their flyways It's springtime again and birds are taking off 🧵

Early reports to WHO from the 30 highest #tuberculosis (TB)-burden countries confirm that funding cuts from foreign aid, particularly from USAID, are already dismantling essential TB services. Without urgent action, these setbacks will reverse decades of progress to #EndTB 🔗 bit.ly/4kvsu2i

🚨 At the #UNGA, the US just announced that it has “rejected and denounced” the Sustainable Development Goals (#SDGs) and Agenda 2030. 🛑And say they won't “reaffirm them” in any way. 🙋🏽‍♀️Why? In part because diversity, equity & inclusion "conflict with U.S. policies." Read more 👇🏼

In February, officials in the Democratic Rep. of the Congo reported a cluster of unexplained deaths in a single village. WHO teams, working alongside DRC health authorities, have ruled out Ebola & Marburg, shifting the focus to other possible causes. 🧵 Here is what is known so far: bit.ly/4bptpwQ

I've seen some commentary on farmworkers "refusing to be tested" in response to this MMWR on H5N1. Resistance to public health measures and clinical care often reflects unmet need and/or structural barriers to participation. 1/ www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

I wrote about structural violence, cholera, & health as peace for Harvard's ReVista. I didn't know how dramatically things would shift in the few weeks between writing &publishing. Posting today in honor of Paul Farmer-who taught me so much. M sonje w Polo revista.drclas.harvard.edu/health-as-pe...

An ongoing cholera outbreak in South Sudan has been difficult to control due to cuts in support for the country's health system. reliefweb.int/report/south...

#AidJobs: We are hiring, here is your chance to work with us. International Secretary General: bit.ly/42VhaWN Deputy Logistics Coordinator: bit.ly/4gIVDUf Tembo Support Officer: bit.ly/4gJ9WIK 5 Nutritionists- bit.ly/3CVtzPW Finance and Human Resources Manager: bit.ly/3QjZLzo

Cancelling or halting foreign assistance in the name of efficiency is going to have a devastating impact on the poorest people. I wrote this for the Globe -> www.bostonglobe.com/2025/02/18/m...

Hell of a day to kill the Epidemic Intelligence Service.

Vaccines are one of the three best things human beings have ever done to extend our own lifespans (along with sanitation and cheap food production at scale). This graphic is amazing (and bc of differences in methodology, this doesn't even include the COVID vaccine, which saved another ~20 million).

I'm saddened to hear of the passing of Danielle Legros Georges, former Poet Laureate of Boston. I love her poem for Haiti ..

Complex systems can't be fully understood just by looking at their individual parts 🧪🧵

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

This will be v difficult on hospital-based research as well. I suspect it may increase the cost of healthcare in AMCs further. Sudden, abrupt drastic change here will cost jobs immediately and heavily impact science.

In a global first, Uganda’s Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and other partners today launched a first-ever vaccine trial for Ebola from the Sudan species of the virus, and at an unprecedented speed for a randomized vaccine trial in an emergency.🧵

State Department Says PEPFAR Is Covered By Waiver For Life-Saving Humanitarian Assistance During 90-Day Pause In Foreign Aid #IDSky #HIV www.reuters.com/business/hea...

“As a surgeon in Gaza, I witnessed hell visited on children.” | Nizam Mamode www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Shameful www.propublica.org/article/trum...

In the new isolationist era, how does the US intend to have the knowledge needed for health security if they don’t collaborate on outbreaks like this one? CDC is often playing an important role on the ground & then also has information pertinent to US health? We need an engaged CDC #IDSky

Examples of false and misleading statements by RFK -> (open access) www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/h...

Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Further retreat from humanism, humanitarianism, global cooperation, global solidarity and caring for fellow humans and the planet. bbc.com/news/article...

There is no humanity in a choice to pause PEPFAR, a bipartisan initiative that has saved 25million lives and upon which millions depend. There is no ‘both sides’-ing this issue. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...

Map chache kominitè Ayisien e Kreyol isit men genlè se sou twitè nou rete…map kontinye ap veye. 👀Fè’m siy si nou la stp 🙏🙂 #Haiti #Kreyol

Disseminated mpox in an immunocompromised patient in DR Congo: a call for a shift from disease-focused to person-centred outbreak response- Lancet ID www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #academicsky #idsky Thx to the lead authors for including me in this case discussion &commentary

www.statnews.com/2025/01/21/l... @statnews.com

Hello! Do you want to join me in D.C. on April 8th and 9th to meet your congressional offices and encourage them to pass the End TB Now Act and to support TB funding in general? Do you live in one of the yellow states below? If so, please join us!!! Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

It's easy to sit in an office in DC and criticize @who.int. However, if you have worked side by side with the dedicated health professionals, country programs, country offices..if you have faced emergencies and crises and connected with WHO colleagues to help you, to think with you in partnership...