The right job for someone: " @msfaccess.org Campaign Officer with experience to design the development and implementation of an international public-facing campaign to improve access to health products for people living with #diabetes" www.msf.org/internationa...

#Ebola update: as of June 18, DRC had confirmed 933 cases; 245 of those people are dead. 80 have recovered. DRC reports it is now following 72% of known case contacts, but with only 7094 contacts identified, contact tracing is still lagging in ways that will prolong efforts to control this outbreak.

Is anyone else getting this page from what appears to be September 2013 when they try and go to the main CBC News site?

So... Is there no PDF of the AI strategy? Like, I have to read the whole AI strategy on a webpage, is that correct?

Why is there so much Evanescence music in this hockey game

“no reasonable alternatives to prevent the introduction or spread of the disease in Canada are available”… “So we’ve decided to ignore the advice of public health experts and do the thing that they say is unnecessary, I guess” Ok cool 👍👌 Good job, folks.

The "Minimizing the Risk of Exposure to Ebola Disease in Canada Order, 2026" Order in Council establishing the new public health rules for people entering Canada under the Quarantine Act is out: 🛬🛂🦠⚖️ orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.p...

Ebola is unlikely to trigger an outbreak at the World Cup. Anyone saying otherwise doesn't understand the epidemiology of Ebola. I agree with this article - we have other pathogens that warrant more worry and planning at large events like this: measles, norovirus, etc.

youtu.be/kGp18whsNiY According to @drejoanneliu.bsky.social exit screening is a better policy. Maybe Canada can support that in affected countries.

Canada is restricting immigration into Canada for citizens from DRC, Uganda, and South Sudan because of Ebola, and also will require Canadians returning from these countries to self-isolate for 21 days. This is not sound public health science and will ultimately hamper outbreak response.

Still not totally clear how Canada's federal budget that explicitly singles out global health programming for cuts will help protect Canadians and the world...🤔

Africa CDC is convening an urgent regional meeting today after an outbreak of Ebola was confirmed in Ituri province, DRC. There are many unknowns but several points in the Africa CDC update are concerning but need to be confirmed - more information should be available in 24 hours.

👀c/o the Public Health Agency of Canada: "Risk assessment: Importation of infectious disease pathogens related to the 2026 FIFA World Cup" ⚽🦠😷 www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

This is a breathtakingly stupid assessment of the problem of public health credibility and health communication. I actually believe that a lot of the public health talking heads did a lot of damage during COVID, but putting up these “examples” is ridiculous.

I really think we need to address the fact that many people and publications are accepting the absolute shittiest AI generated photos being posted in articles to illustrate a point. Just saw a “tired doctor” with a laptop screen facing outward instead of towards them. Absolute brain rot stuff.

I really think we need to address the fact that many people and publications are accepting the absolute shittiest AI generated photos being posted in articles to illustrate a point. Just saw a “tired doctor” with a laptop screen facing outward instead of towards them. Absolute brain rot stuff.

Good to see Powlowski's bill to reform the deeply flawed Special Access Program at 2nd reading, but it remains odd that despite being a doc who practiced both up North & in multiple low-income countries, his💊examples so far don't incl. basic global health (albendazole ffs) or TB #EssentialMedicines.

Since there's taboo around this, suggesting that cases of Andes virus may be caused by human-to-human transmission on a cruise ship is entirely uncontroversial: 1️⃣ We already know it's able to. 2️⃣ Conditions are "optimal". 3️⃣ This doesn't change the fact that a larger outbreak is extremely unlikely.

I've spent yesterday and today talking to researchers across the globe trying to understand the hantavirus outbreak aboard the cruise ship MV Hondius. My story in @science.org is here (and some threaded thoughts coming): www.science.org/content/arti... 🧪 #IDsky

Hantavirus is, thankfully rare - that means that most clinicians have never encountered a case or have much knowledge of the disease. Here’s a solid summary from an infectious disease expert actually working on hantavirus. If you’re curious, start here.

Alberta separatists separate Albertans from their privacy

Go talk to people!

Respiratory therapist, here. You already know that smoking is bad for you. You know this, but increasingly I've noticed that (in particular) younger folks don't KNOW this. Because people don't KNOW how bad smoking is for you, it's being romanticized as this quasi-benign thing. What do I mean?

When people ask, "How can I promote my art when the world is going to shit" I hear that as, "How do I have the right to make art when the world is going to shit" And... We need art more than ever during such times. You need to be making art more than ever during such times.

Get Reddy for cheaper semaglutide in Canada - Health Canada just approved the first generic version.

Has anyone else noticed a huge volume of AI generated clinical “fact” sheets showing up in their LinkedIn that are just AI slop? Care guidelines that are incorrect, advice that makes no sense, etc. Perhaps naively, I didn’t expect this but this is the new strategy of medical influencers it seems.

There are big problems with Canada’s half baked pharmacare program. But scrapping the whole program, instead of expanding it, will leave patients and employers in a far worse place. Medicines are increasingly unaffordable and this simplistic editorial doesn’t address this.

Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

There are big problems with Canada’s half baked pharmacare program. But scrapping the whole program, instead of expanding it, will leave patients and employers in a far worse place. Medicines are increasingly unaffordable and this simplistic editorial doesn’t address this.

I’m at Canada’s Drug Agency Symposium in Ottawa today. We just kicked off with a panel on what’s coming for pharmaceutical policy and health systems. Pretty clear an emerging issue is going to be the US Most Favored Nation policy.

How can we make better decisions under pressure, especially when uncertainty is high? This is such a great question - yet many of us working in high-consequence environments never actually receive training on how to make decisions. A great podcast on human factors and decision-making in crises.👇

The Charter of Rights & Freedoms deserves celebration. But the decision not to include socio-economic rights or explicitly positive rights is lamentable. Inequality has only 📈 since the Charter & today's affordability & housing crisis can't be properly addressed as a human rights issue bc of it.

Earlier this year, Canada introduced the Connected Care for Canadians Act, to improve interoperability of health records systems. We asked respiratory therapists what challenges they're having accessing the patient information they need to provide safe respiratory care. Here's what we heard:

Earlier this year, Canada introduced the Connected Care for Canadians Act, to improve interoperability of health records systems. We asked respiratory therapists what challenges they're having accessing the patient information they need to provide safe respiratory care. Here's what we heard:

“military aged males” got normalized as a viable target for war and it’s pretty much a racialized fiction meant to justify indiscriminate murder.

The Pasteur Network research facilities around the world are essential for bringing high-quality laboratory infrastructure to resource-challenged countries, essential for monitoring infectious diseases, providing patient care, and responding to outbreaks.

Very sad to learn that Stephen Lewis died today. Stephen was a remarkable person, and someone that very likely changed the trajectory of the global response to HIV/AIDS, not only saving lives but empowering people who are too often marginalized by the structures and systems he pushed back on.

No rules of engagement. No "nation building... no democracy building exercise" So, a tacit endorsement of war crimes with no particular end game or objective of what they're seeking to accomplish.

Countering the misinformation & disinformation ecosystem needs to involve more than debunking bad information that's circulating - we need evidence-based medicine to answer questions that people have about their every day health needs, no matter how mundane or esoteric. My letter in the @bmj.com

I realize this is newsworthy (to some degree, I guess?), because we live in the absolute stupidest timeline right now, but I can't make it through this article. I have a PhD and I can't make sense of what's going on here (I also just don't care). Go outside, folks. Have a coffee with another human.

Bruuuutallll

Reporting in northern Cameroon, I noticed a few people sitting at the back of a hospital compound. They had drug-resistant TB. They weren't there to get meds or see a doctor: they LIVE there. For months. In isolation. That's government policy. Sanitarium throwback. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/h...

Detour from posting about health and foreign policy In my not-work life, I run and hike and explore. This June: We're organizing 360 Ottawa. A race around the entire perimeter of #Ottawa. Team relay. Whole city. Slightly unhinged. Very fun. Registration's open. Come run with us. DM for details.

This article is intellectually lazy and mischaracterizes how drug prices in Canada are set and regulated. It uses data that stop in 2002 - decades before today’s extraordinarily high drug prices - to justify its claims. Nonsense.

New from @srinmurthy.bsky.social and I at @healthydebate.bsky.social re: studies on university R&D + the private sector (SRSR) & "Canada's pharmaceutical sovereignty" (HESA). "These parliamentary studies are low-profile but have implications for access to medicines" healthydebate.ca/2026/02/topi...

Horrific. Medical staff are working under impossible circumstances to provide care to patients during an ongoing genocide, where much of the health system has been systematically destroyed. Warring parties have an obligation to protect medical staff. The fighting needs to end immediately.

Lots of potentially good work being done here to improve the affordability and thermostability of the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine which currently (1) is, I believe, the most expensive vaccine in use in global health; and (2) requires resource-intensive ultra-cold chain that is not ideal.

If you're in Ottawa, join me tomorrow night at the Bronson Centre where I'll be moderating a panel discussion featuring @heathermcpherson.bsky.social and a remarkable group of human rights advocates to talk about Canada's place in the world.

I just learned that you can buy a premium metal inhaler case for your MDIs. Also comes in fun colours. I'm down for zuhz-ing up medical devices that you have to carry around every day (as long as health professionals can still read the label so we know what medication it is!).