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...

Politico: Pandemic response, the Trump way - Is the U.S. about to torpedo the World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement from afar? pro.politico.eu/news/pandemic-response-the-trump-way @who.int

#UHC is at the heart of the US governmen’s now 6-week shutdown. Worth a read, as more Republicans and their constituents call for Trump to back down.

Every climate decision is a health decision. From local communities to global leaders, #ClimateAction is needed now to: 💚 Protect lives 💪 Strengthen health systems 🛡️ Secure a safe, healthy future for all Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30#ClimateAction#COP30

Healthcare workers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, protecting lives as our planet heats up. This is their call to action: 🗣️It’s time to put health at the centre of #ClimateAction. Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30#ClimateAction#COP30

Gutting the corporate alternative minimum tax, designed to make sure wildly profitable corporations pay *something*, while cutting food, health, and heating assistance.

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

“A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California.”

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wanted to “focus on something that wasn’t going to be undone every few years” . . . said the man whose changing whims are ending billions in funding for education, housing, and health. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Happy to announce the release of our legal epi dataset on conversion therapy laws.

"The staff supporting ... (ACIP) were let go earlier this month in a sweeping round of layoffs that gutted entire departments of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

THIS is the inconvenient truth

NEW: The Trump administration is using a new metric for assessing HHS employees in their annual performance reviews: whether they are sufficiently loyal to Trump’s policy agenda www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-em...

In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib. This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere. Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men. #IDsky

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2

We knew this was going to happen, but… oh my god.

If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.” It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.

A new memo signed by President Trump, known as NSPM-7, aims to add nonprofits and activists to an ever-growing list of what he calls the “enemy within.” It’s important to remember that the president cannot rewrite the constitution by memo. Here's what the directive actually does and doesn't do.

Breaking with the CDC, ACOG reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people. Here’s what to know. ja.ma/3VYFRwQ

Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay. (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...

"Half of the world’s disease burden was preventable, researchers calculated, driven by risks that could be reduced, such as high blood pressure, air pollution, smoking and obesity." www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Your reminder—or maybe no one ever told you—that complications from a measles infection include immune amnesia (where you lose immunity to everything), vision and hearing loss, brain damage, and a fatal brain disease called Subacute Sclerosing Panencephalitis that can show up years later.

“We can continue accelerating toward an AI-powered future that amplifies existing inequities, or we can deliberately steer toward one that increases prospects for shared global prosperity,” writes Chinasa T. Okolo in a new #ScienceExpertVoices article. https://scim.ag/46JkNka

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

More on the CDC tonight: @jeremyfaust.bsky.social , who is impeccably sourced there (physician, Harvard faculty) has details on the divisions hit by the apparently illegal RIFS. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

With deep sadness, we remember Catarina de Albuquerque, a pioneering human rights advocate who advanced water and sanitation as fundamental rights. Her legacy shapes global policy and lives worldwide. May her memory guide us in the pursuit of justice, dignity, and equality for all

GSL is proud to announce its new Global Health Law program, with Dr. @roojinhabibi.org as inaugural Research Director. This program will build capacity through law research, teaching & practice, examining the unique role of law in addressing global health challenges. 🔎Learn more: bit.ly/436vgnl

More are united around a simple message: RFK Jr should not be HHS Sec. His decisions undermine our public health capacity and put lives and health at risk. As 6 former Surgeon Generals argue: "He has rejected science, misled the public and compromised the health of Americans." 🎁 wapo.st/3VTALll