Where does human experience meet the work we do to improve #policy & #practice through better #evidence & #implementation? A critical professional & personal question explored by @anabaumann.bsky.social at #EIS2025 #ISHCA.

“Sometime we all need a reminder of why we do the work.” “We will get a different story depending on who we ask.” @jaeleaskehan.bsky.social reflecting on @anabaumann.bsky.social’s key note challenge to consider: “How are we conceptualising impact and for whom?” #EIS2025 #ISHCA @eisummit.org

Reflecting on @anabaumann.bsky.social’s key note Andile Madowela of the Pan African Collective: “It requires of us to let go of hierarchies of evidence. . . to be responsive to the needs of people on the ground.” #EIS2025 #ISHCA @eisummit.org

Astounding and devastating visualization of N.I.H. grants that have been terminated www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

How do you decide which theory, model, or framework (TMF) should guide your next implementation project? Our team has just published SELECT-IT in @implementsci.bsky.social — a four-step meta-framework that turns that question into a replicable process: doi.org/10.1186/s130... @jgrimshaw.bsky.social

NIH is going to hold a town hall for staff with director Jayanta Bhattacharya, and apparently the form to submit questions is publicly available. In case that’s of interest. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

🎉Fantastic to see our update to the Cochrane review on Audit and Feedback in healthcare published! So much work went into this huge project by a worldwide team, expertly led by Noah Ivers 👏 A must read for anyone wanting to improve the quality of healthcare 👇 www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....

According to DisabilityJustice.org, 83% of disabled women will be sexually abused in their lifetime. You must include disabled women in your conversations about choice and reproductive rights. I’m included in that percentage. Please think about us.

NIH terminates ongoing grants for LGBTQ+ research www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/n... via @statnews.com

Agreed with Gillian here. If you called your Senator (or didn't) to tell them to vote against a trans sports ban, it's important that you also call them and thank them for their vote. NO Democrat broke on this. myreps.datamade.us

MEDICAID Basics Over 50% of the spending for Medicaid goes to cover those with DISABILITIES and the AGED 38% of those on Medicaid are CHILDREN. /1

Follow us, share our stuff, add stuff we should know about. What I know now is THERE IS A LOT GOING ON, and we want you to know it. There's strength in seeing that we're not alone, not all passive in the face of this.... bsky.app/profile/resi...

THE RESIST LIST IS HERE. Proud my team just started this @resistlist.bsky.social, which will list actions that happened and that are slated to happen.

Feb 4 meeting of National Heart, Lung, and Blood Advisory Council CANCELLED. On Feb 6 2024 they approved 8 billion dollars of medical research in those areas. An equivalent sum now missing in 2025. www.nhlbi.nih.gov/events/2024/...

Pretty sad. Just got the email that CZI is canceling the second round of Diversity Leadership Awards. Private industry will definitely not fill the hole that NIH and NSF are leaving. 😢💔

On Friday night, HHS ordered CDC to take down all flu vaccine campaign materials from its website. Materials are starting to come down. For example, a campaign explaining that flu shot can reduce flu severity from "wild to mild" is now offline. Left image is from Friday, right is now Meanwhile...

We have been hard at work this weekend getting organized! 🚨IF YOU FEEL YOU HAVE THE CHOPS TO LEAD A PROTEST SITE FILL OUT THE FORM🚨 Our goal is to solidify protest locations by FRIDAY 2/21! So, let’s get cracking, everyone! FOLLOW FOR UPDATES @standupforscience.bsky.social #scienceforall

New data from the #CDC shows that the 2024-2025 #flu season is becoming more intense. Acute necrotizing encephalopathy is showing up as a complication in children and MRSA pneumonia in adults. Get the flu #vaccine. www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap...

This is a program for teenagers with serious disabilities who are finishing high school and transitioning to their next steps in life. Trump just axed it, effective immediately, in the middle of the night, with no notice.

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

Measles has a 12% mortality rate in unvaccinated young children. Children cannot be vaccinated until they are at least 12 months old. And if infants need to be kept home and out of daycare to avoid potentially fatal measles outbreaks... Guess who that removes from the workforce. (Women.)

Important from @meganranney.bsky.social and @atulgrovermd.bsky.social on solvable problems with US Health Care. "If we could eliminate deaths from just 3 external causes...alcohol, drugs, and firearms...we would nearly close the life expectancy gap between the US and other developed countries."

- There is a “Stand up for Science” event happening on March 7, 2025 in DC (standupforscience.org). - Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.

Great new resource from @debeaumontfndtn.bsky.social on public health comms - with both well-tested language, and actionable tips. This is FABULOUS. debeaumont.org/resources/co...

Instead of Google search try DuckDuckGo Instead of Chrome try Firefox Instead of Gmail try ProtonMail Instead of Google Docs etc try LibreOffice Instead of Google Photos try Ente For every Google product there are multiple replacements you can try. The above suggestions are just examples to try

Seems we need to get the word out: NIH cuts impact our ability to get the care we need AND cost our states billions of dollars. Here's my attempt - just don't tell my kids I was lighting things on fire while they were at school :)

Imagine if @aoc @sanders.senate.gov , every dem, SIMULTANEOUSLY held Town Halls where they allowed grant and contract recipients to explain to the country what it is they do and why it's important Invite all media. Including RW podcasters. @spaces Flood the zone Call it a Day Of Transparency

In case it doesn't exist yet: Here is a starter pack for health justice. Please let me know if you want to be added or removed. go.bsky.app/Qe1JSoD

BREAKING: In response to doctors' lawsuit, Judge John Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, orders CDC, NIH, and FDA to put back up websites and datasets cited by the doctors in their lawsuit as having been relied upon and pulled down without notice. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Many in biotech/private sector are boasting about their ways of funding and doing science But they are staffed with PhDs and postdocs we train in our NIH and NSF funded labs in universities With university labs lacking funds to train, the private sector will be profoundly harmed

Everyone using personal ChatGPT accounts for business purposes is a massive security risk. The default setting in ChatGPT is to allow it to train on your data

BREAKING: Federal judge in Boston broadens block on Trump's NIH grant 15% overhead limit (indirect cost rates) to all recipients nationwide. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... #TROpalooza ain't done

Section 504 prohibits discrimination against disabled people & guarantees equal access to anything (services, programs, buildings, etc.) that receives federal funding. It paved the way for the ADA. The sit-in that got it passed is an extraordinary moment in US history. I am incandescent with rage.

I took a shot at figuring out how much money each state stands to lose in a single year if the NIH fixes the indirect cost rate at 15%. 🧵

Excited to see this resource: Today we released our archive of data.gov on Source Cooperative. The 16TB collection includes over 311,000 #datasets harvested during 2024 and 2025, a complete archive of federal public datasets linked by data.gov. See lil.law.harvard.edu/blog/2025/02... #publichealth

Finally got around to making a shorter URL for the Google doc: tinyurl.com/DataRescuePr... Lots of efforts are underway: help with organizing data, or research. If you want to help, get in touch with us. Also, if you are following me but want data rescue it is @datarescue2025.bsky.social

Apologies for this long post I put together to explain to non-scientists the impact of NIH cuts: Last night, an “atomic bomb” was dropped on the biomedical science community. We were informed that effective immediately, indirect costs on NIH grants (both current and future) would be fixed at 15%.

Meant to post yesterday but slammed and traveling. Grateful to @charlesgaba.com and @niema.net for getting the CMS website into archive form. This one is big and we know some links are broken. Let us know what you find & we will get to it! acasignups.net/25/02/08/lin...

Some US health clinics grapple with federal funding squeeze www.investing.com/news/economy...

1. Today the NIH director issued a new directive slashing overhead rates to 15%. I want to provide some context on what that means and why it matters. grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...

New piece on #CommunityEngagement + #ImpSci to advance health equity in the CDC's Principles of Community Engagement (3rd ed). It's been taken down from the site, but you can get it here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... W/ @drrachelshelton.bsky.social @padsul.bsky.social @anabaumann.bsky.social

Just in case you thought that removing DEI criteria would mean that everyone is competing equally: NIH is removing grad students from underrepresented backgrounds from the applicant pool altogether. Their applications will not be considered. Other students, not from these backgrounds, will be.

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

Dear US scientists, We've been hearing a lot of questions of the form "Why aren't universities doing anything!? They need to speak out!" We can explain. It's bad news. We're on our own. But understanding why can help us all figure out our plan. Read along in thread 1/x 🧪

In an interview with @cnn.com, MSF's Dr. Javid Abdelmoneim describes the horrific violence against civilians in #Sudan, worrying levels of malnutrition, and barriers for aid organizations. The freezing of US aid in this situation is 'effectively a death sentence'. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/T...

Interested in public health? Here are four Harvard-based opportunities for undergraduates to gain exposure and experience. 4 days left to apply. my.reviewr.com/s2/site/Harv...

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...