Too often when discussing trans rights, we’re forced to be on the defensive, as Republicans wage attacks. Today, we take the opportunity to look forward by introducing my Trans Bill of Rights, a comprehensive vision to provide protections for all trans and nonbinary people.

BREAKING: Four states led by Democrats sued the Trump administration on Wednesday, aiming to halt deep cuts in federal public health funds that had already been allocated. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/h...

Oh man, the amount of buzzwords in this… It is hilarious to see this introduced as a “data-driven quest” before the actual text of the article acknowledges: “The safety gains are difficult to quantify.” (Are there even any safety gains at all? It’s not clear to me.) @profgoldberg.bsky.social

Opinion: Emblazoned on the jumbotron behind Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl 60 halftime show were the words 'THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE.'

BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

Brilliant legal analysis by my friend Larry Helfer (UN Human Rights Committee member & a law prof who co-directs Duke’s Center for International and Comparative) & Jean Galbraith, Law Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School www.justsecurity.org/129914/us-wi...

Documented measles cases in the US 2024: 285 2025: 2,276 2026: 730+ (through Feb 6) while new documents obtained by @rcfp.org contradict RFK Jr's testimony to Congress about the purpose of his trip to Samoa amidst a deadly measles outbreak. bsky.app/profile/rcfp...

Remember when Emily Oster said listeria isn’t a big deal? “A newborn baby has died in New Mexico from a Listeria infection that state health officials say was likely contracted from raw (unpasteurized) milk that the baby’s mother drank during pregnancy.” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

What began as a crisis of resources now risks becoming a crisis of direction for global health governance. My latest op-ed argues for the World Health Assembly to initiate a time-bound, member state-led process to unify fragmented global health architecture reforms. blogs.lse.ac.uk/globalhealth...

Quacks who promote raw milk conveniently omit the many infectious pathogens it can contain. Some of these cause infections so severe they can lead to death. Raw milk has no unique health benefits > pasteurized milk but it sure can make you sick. Don't drink it! www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Come be my colleague @dukesanford.bsky.social! I'm chairing this search for the inaugural Rosen Family Professor of the Practice--an experienced scholar-practitioner--and am happy to field questions via the email in the job post. More details in the posting below 👇👇👇

🇺🇳 Opinion: ‘Europe has greater responsibility in the World Health Organization without the United States’ - Writes Professor Ilona Kickbusch in @bmj.com ‘Europe must become a proactive system stabiliser as the principal guarantor of @who.int ’s operational continuity’ www.bmj.com/content/392/...

The past year has shaken the foundations of U.S. leadership in global health governance amid: * attacks on public health science, * abandonment of U.S. foreign assistance & * threats to global health governance. The global health landscape is rapidly shifting — to the exclusion of the United States.

The US government has lost more than 10,000 people with PhDs in the STEM or health fields since Trump 2.0 took office — 14% of the federal civil servants with PhDs in those areas, a @ScienceMagazine analysis shows. What could possibly go wrong? www.science.org/content/arti...

Threats to funding and cuts to diversity efforts are putting pressure on the pipeline of new scientists. https://scim.ag/3LIs63S

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

⚠️ Health experts warn it is unethical to withhold a proven vaccine from newborns! 🍼 The halted trial would have given only half of 14,000 babies a hepatitis B vaccine at birth — despite strong evidence early vaccination saves lives. ✍️ @kerrycullinan.bsky.social @by-cjewett.bsky.social 📖⬇️ & 🔁🙏

🇺🇳 US withdrawal from World Health Organization ‘Risks Global Safety’, #WHO says in strong response. @who.int defends itself against accusations made by the #Trump administration including of ‘failures’ during COVID 19 pandemic. www.who.int/news/item/24...

WHO statement on notification of withdrawal of the United States WHO regrets the United States’ notification of withdrawal from WHO – a decision that makes both the United States and the world less safe. Full statement: bit.ly/46dT0HF

William Foege (1936-2026) Offering hope to a world threatened by infectious disease, Bill ensured American public health leadership throughout the world. We have lost an impactful American leader...at a moment when we are rapidly losing American leadership. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/u...

Stupid headline (the WHO is an international organization, California can’t join). Real content is good news: CA will join GOARN, the WHO-operated outbreak data and surveillance system. Good for everybody’s heath security, good to see US democrats thinking about global health.

Proving that the Texas measles outbreak that began last January is the source of the current outbreaks in Utah and Arizona or South Carolina is turning out to be more complicated than officials had expected. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/w...

Half the battle with this guy is just reiterating government can and already does good things that are so ubiquitous they’ve become invisible. He’s able to remind you in a way that you understand that good government can exist outside of a 24/7 vengeance operation, and in NYC already does.

Governments are seldom this brazen when obscuring the true costs of air pollution. On January 12, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will stop assigning economic value to lives saved and illnesses avoided when considering air pollution controls. www.hrw.org/news/2026/01...

One Year Post-USAID, Global Health Funding Stuck in Limbo www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/one-...

US cuts to #HIV programs in sub-Saharan Africa pose global risk, experts say Reduced funding will erode decades of progress and impede future advancements, but there is hope for the future with alternative resources. www.cidrap.umn.edu/h...#HIV Photo: World Bank / Flickr cc

Sanitation is a Human Right.

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

Rarely do you read news this positive these days. Other US cities should seriously consider implementing congestion pricing.

“This is a seismic, long-awaited correction of the scientific record,” said Dr. Philip J. Landrigan… “It pulls the veil off decades of industry efforts to create a false narrative that glyphosate is safe…People have developed cancers, and people have died because of this scientific fraud.”

In 2026 and beyond, WHO remains committed to saving lives and providing people everywhere with the best possible chance for good health and well-being. Together, with science, solutions, and solidarity, we can build a healthier, safer, and more hopeful future for everyone.🧪🩷🫰

On DOGE’s watch, federal spending did not go down at all. It went up. But is still led to cuts that closed offices, canceled programs and deprived people of food, medicine and other aid. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/u...

Taking away access to vaccines is a violation of the rights of children

Finally visited the site of the Nuremberg trial today. Lots of thoughts and feelings but mostly a potent and poignant reminder of the international order the US and allies tried to create after the horrors of the Holocaust and the Second World War and that is increasingly being abandoned by the US.

Vaccination rates are plummeting across the country, as part of a larger, troubling trend of growing vaccine hesitancy that is fueling a resurgence of preventable diseases, an NBC News and Stanford University investigation found.

The anti-Semitic mass shooting in Australia will cause a national conversation and policy change. We know this because the 1996 Port Arthur massacre led to significant restrictions on guns. The shooting at Brown will do nothing. We know this because it occurred on the anniversary of Sandy Hook.

The Sandy Hook shooting was 13 years ago today. Yesterday, there was a shooting at Brown University. There have been at least 75 school shootings this year. The US has a gun problem, and it seems we're never going to do anything about it. www.cnn.com/us/school-sh...

📢 New paper out in Health Policy & Planning! In today’s fragmented world, global health needs more than piecemeal reform. This study examines how diplomacy & governance can build a more coherent global health architecture – through the lens of aligning GHS & UHC. 🔗: doi.org/10.1093/heapol/czaf086

As #WorldAIDSDay comes around again (01 Dec 2025 is the 37th year of commemoration), a reminder of what #PublicHealth is, what is has been capable of, & (maybe?) some inspiration for how we might newly envision its future.

“Miasma theory” stages a comeback in the United States Deep sigh 😮‍💨 www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...

SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles. (Gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...

“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe” www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

#ClimateChange is jeopardising our health and wellbeing. Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients. Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30#ClimateChange#COP30

It was inspiring to join the "Complicating the Narrative" podcast, speaking with Salma Abdalla about the central importance of Human Rights to Global Health. Please follow our discussion on the evolution of efforts to make the Right to Health real throughout the world www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqqf...

Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right. In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...