Jeanne Marrazzo and Kathy Neuzil are known for their integrity, their selflessness and their scientific rigor. Their voices carry enormous weight in the scientific community. #NIH

We are heartbroken by the death of Mariam Abu Dagga, a freelance photographer who frequently worked with Doctors Without Borders in #Gaza. Mariam was one of at least 20 people killed during Israel’s horrendous attacks on the Nasser medical complex on August 25, 2025.

#BREAKING 🚨 Four journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, are among 20 dead in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital The second strike was captured live on television as rescue crews were seen in the building attempting evacuate the injured

Wastewater-based epidemiology & surveillance have made enormous strides in recent years, demonstrating utility in characterizing pathogen distributions in populations. However, current methods are too costly to be scalable in LMICs where the need for improved disease surveillance is greatest. (1/2)

Rochelle Walensky's powerful new TED Talk isn't about politics or policy. It's about people and the compassion that drives her. "In our darkest moments, how we serve one another, how we treat one another, is ultimately what defines us." Highly recommended: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkW...

"Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second largest democracy too." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Great piece from Stanford colleagues about the Administration's attempts to overturn the EPA's protections regarding climate change and its impacts on health: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

Our administration is abusing the Magnitsky Act to meddle in Brazil's domestic legal affairs because they hate to see the rule of law be applied for an attempted coup, the precedent that sets... www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

🚨 Apenas 50% dos casos de tuberculose nas instituições penais são diagnosticados. Se todos os estados adotassem a triagem em massa com radiografia de tórax — como já fazem MS e MT — poderíamos mudar esse cenário. 🔗 www.campograndenews.com.br/brasil/cidad...

Projecting the impact and costs of near point-of-care tuberculosis screening assays in community-based active case finding ✅ Just Accepted ✍️ @jasonandrews.bsky.social #IDSky

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too." An essay on the inhuman conditions that ICE is confining people in, and the most beautiful sides of humanity of them coming together.

110 people killed in one day, with dozens including children at food and water distribution points, and it's not even headline news anymore. Our governments are all ok with this? www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...

Long as I live I will not be able to comprehend the cruelty of those who cheer on the act of tearing fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children from their communities and putting them in cages, all for having been born on a different portion of the rock we are hurtling through space upon.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

We just published a piece about the participation of people deprived of liberty in #tuberculosis vaccine trials. Should they be protected from research, or through research? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social @isglobal.org @mtbi.bsky.social

RFK Jr: "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years." Cost: $27 billion RCTs proving population health benefit: 0 Meanwhile, US contribution to Gavi vaccines: $1.2B over 4 years RCTs supporting Gavi vaccines: >300 Children vaccinated: >1 billion Lives saved: >17 million

These are the Iranian voices we should be listening to — Nobel laureates calling for peace. #Iran #Israel #CeasefireNow

Powerful piece by my colleague @jakescottmd.bsky.social on the disastrous actions of RFK Jr and what it means for trust in science

My op-ed in the Mercury News: A proposed HHS rule would delay vaccine updates and stall innovation by forcing unnecessary placebo trials. It’s bad science — and worse public health. @mercurynews.com www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/31/o...

The myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls isn’t just wrong - it’s measurably wrong. Now the data are all in one place. This is what public science looks like: transparent, crowd-sourced, open to anyone. @nytimes.com @statnews.com @kffhealthnews.org @npr.org @drandrealove.bsky.social

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.

Our lab retreated from the craziness of the world for a day (and night) to spend time together in nature. Camping at Lake Del Valle.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss

💔This is a sad & scary day. Jeanne Marrazzo is so smart & such a good leader. With her at the helm our field could sleep a little easier. Losing her leadership is devestating to #IDsky 🧪 & 🌍 health. These ✂️ to NIH workforce put us in grave danger. Now & for a long time. www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...

Highly recommend this memoir by the son of Dr. Héctor Abad Gomez, public health physician & human rights advocate who was murdered by government-backed paramilitaries. A model of conviction & courage in face of powerful oppression. So relevant for our times. thank you @yiranliu.bsky.social

A graduate student with a valid student visa, having committed no crime, is detained by masked agents and sent 1,500 miles away. They do this to intimidate other students and suppress dissent. Fellow Professors, if you're not speaking out when they abduct our students, at what point will you?

The vaccine-autism peddler whom HHS hired to conduct a study on this non-question lacks a graduate/medical degree and was disciplined by the Maryland State Medical Board for practicing medicine without a license. Here are some examples of what he was doing. www.mbp.state.md.us/BPQAPP/order...

Gee, I wonder what that study on vaccines and autism will show www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/... "Geier and his father, Mark Geier, have published papers claiming vaccines increase the risk of autism, a theory that has been studied for decades and scientifically debunked."

A great history of the Alaska TB epidemic, where rates among its indigenous population were among the highest in the world, and the public health response which mitigated but did not eliminate TB there (still highest incidence in US). Also the title quote 🔥, feels so apt today. #WorldTBDay

Today is #WorldTBDay, yet everyone I talk w/in the TB community is worried. We have more tools and knowledge than ever before to respond to the world's leading cause of death by a pathogen, but the U.S. walking away from its commitments threatens global progress against TB. 1/2

"America’s universities are worth fighting for. As an unparalleled locus of learning, research, scholarship and social transformation, they are one of our country’s greatest achievements and most important contributions to the world." stanforddaily.com/2025/03/17/i...

With measles surging and vaccine hesitancy spreading, my husband reminded me of this powerful piece from 2020. I’m so grateful to have re-read it. This is the hope for all infectious diseases. This is why vaccines are a miracle. This is why global cooperation matters.

“The End of the University as We Know It”, by Meghan O’Rourke www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...

Well-written piece about the erosion of public health as a public service in the U.S. and the risks this poses. Once a pride of this country, public health has been under relentless attack b/c it prioritizes the well-being of the populace, even when at odds with corporate economic interests.

Dr. Rasha Alawieh, Asst Prof at Brown & transplant nephrologist was detained & appears to have been deported in defiance of a court order. There is no excuse for this cruelty, and we must stand up for our colleagues. www.browndailyherald.com/article/2025...

This will be devastating for scientists and research teams, participants of trials, including those who receive TB or HIV care and treatment and will impact gains made world-wide in controlling infections diseases. And all for a completely BS reason. www.science.org/content/arti...

We should all see what is happening on U.S. soil. It is shameful. My heart breaks for his family and for freedom and justice that under siege.

Abruptly terminating funding to tuberculosis programs is equivalent to cutting power and water to a hospital without warning. There is no excuse for the way this was done, and many people will die as a result. Those responsible for the decision know this and are doing it anyways.

Thank you Senator Murphy. Every member of congress should be speaking out clearly against this action, which is immoral and antithetical to a free and open democracy.

Trying to deport people for their protected political speech is an outrageous civil liberties violation that should be opposed by everyone who values living in a free country. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-mos...

It is so heartening to see images of our colleagues around the country and world coming together to stand in support of science. We are a global community working collectively to expand our understanding of the world and in doing so make it better for humanity. #standupforscience

Stand Up For Science in Palo Alto was 🔥 today!

For years I’ve contrasted the way that US science allocates cognitive effort from the bottom up via individual scientists responding to career incentives with the way things were done in the Soviet Union, from the top down, by the Party setting rear b priorities. I can’t do that anymore.

ID community, let's stand up for science today. Silence will not protect our research, which is vital to protecting our communities from infectious diseases. Let's stand up for them

“Speak up, speak out, get in the way. Get in good trouble, necessary trouble, and help redeem the soul of America.” – John Lewis

I'll be standing up for science tomorrow in Palo Alto in solidarity with scientists and advocates around the country and world, because science is among the most important endeavors of humankind and we must protect and support it.