Prasad says FDA will state that "COVID-19 vaccines have killed American children," which he calls a "profound revelation." He directs FDA staff who disagree to resign. He offers no research data & doesn't submit it to peer review. Science is transparent, it is testable. This is not science

Ralph Abraham is an irresponsible pick as Deputy Director of CDC. As Louisiana Surgeon General, he cancelled vaccine campaigns. He's a major prescriber of ivermectin for COVID-19. Dr. Abraham is likely to further erode the credibility of the CDC. He's a loyalist, not a scientist

RFK Jr forces CDC to say “studies have not ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism”. It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of science. Science can not rule out infinite remote possibilities. But science has conclusively shown no link between vaccines and autism

In London for ⁦‪@FT‬⁩ ⁦‪@TheLancet‬⁩ Scientific Integrity Strategies. AI fueled misleading health information is a defining issue of our time. Strategies include health literacy & communication. Quality Health Information for All is worth fighting for.

America First bilateral global health pacts linking aid to pathogen sharing is feckless. Instead of a multilateral @WHO PABS annex we do deals with a few select countries. What makes Trump think the next pandemic will start in those countries? The US is safer inside WHO & PABS

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Sudan Is in Free Fall www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o... I'm enormously proud of the @oneillinstitute senior human rights scholar Eric Friedman for his authoritative @nytimes opinion on "Sudan is in Free Fall."

India and the IHR Amendments: Strengthening Legal Preparedness for Global Health Security - O'Neill : O'Neill oneill.law.georgetown.edu/india-and-th... Congratulations to my friends and colleagues Kashish Aneja and Sam Halabi. Proud to co-author with them

Join the O'Neill Institute tomorrow Wed. 4 Nov on the IHR & Pandemic Agreement. I will moderate a panel of senior Biden Admin officials who negotiated these treaties: Mara Burr Susan Kim Colin Mclff Stephanie Psaki @GeorgetownLaw 1:20 pm ET

President Mahama just appointed Bedima Duut as Justice of the High Court of Ghana. I burst with pride at my student & dear friend who graduated from our Global Health LLM @georgetownlaw.bsky.social @oneillinstitute.bsky.social

Tomorrow, ACA open enrollment begins for 2026 coverage. Huge spikes in insurance rates will force people to discontinue coverage. These will be mostly young healthy people, further driving costs up for everyone. Even if Congress restores ACA subsidies, the damage is already done

The MAHA Agenda is not serious about reducing chronic diseases. RFK, Jr. follows his whims and hunches, while ignoring science. We know what it takes to improve nutrition and physical activity, but the MAHA report just ignores the evidence jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Delighted to be at #WHS2025 in Berlin. Tomorrow, our Nature Medicine Commission on Quality Health Information for All will official launch at the World Health Summit Our aim is to provide a framework for innovative solutions to advance quality health information equitably and for all

Delighted to co-chair the ⁦Nature Medicine⁩ Commission on Quality Health Information for All in Berlin today. Integrity & trust in information is the world’s greatest health challenge. Our Commission explores how quality health info shared through culture, media, & technology can be strengthened.

RFK has mounted a full assault on @CDCgov-- slashing funding & staff, & and turned the agency into a political tool that can no longer be fully trusted on public health recommendations, especially vaccines. Out today in JAMA Health Forum Peter Lurie CSPI jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The "America First Global Health Strategy" is an oxymoron. Global health requires solidarity & int'l cooperation. Trump's actions have also created mayhem in global health. But the Strategy does identify better ways to conduct foreign aid @bmj.com www.bmj.com/cgi/content/...

Acting CDC Director O'Neill says "informed consent is back" but COVID vaccines are not mandated in any state. He implies COVID vaccines are risky. They are not. CDC halts combined MMRV vaccines. Expect a surge in chickenpox. None of this is science informed www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

NIH launches a $50m in autism research "to unlock causes." How odd. First, the President & HHS Secretary announce with great fanfare the cause of autism. And then they launch a study to find the cause Isn't research supposed to come first? Chasing hunches a waste of NIH resources

Trump and RFK’s advice on Tylenol & autism is cartoonish. Politicians shouldn’t be giving health advice. Their words on vaccines and Tylenol are reckless. It’s impossible to trust anything HHS says. Science & evidence don’t seem to matter.

Trump’s plan on autism makes a mockery of science. Vast research shows autism has complex causes. Yet RFK is selling the idea that he knows. No new studies. No peer review. No transparency. That’s not how science works.

ACIP's 2 day meeting was a train wreck, riddled with irregularities & devoid of science. In a well functioning government, national uniform recs are based on evidence. We don't want states issuing conflicting recs. But this is not a well functioning govt. And RFK is not a normal HHS Secretary

RFK names 5 new ACIP members He pledges "transparency", but publishes ACIP's agenda late, w/ no public input "Evidence-based science" is non-existent "Expertise" is absent w/ CDC's director & ACIP members unqualified & conflicted RFK is rushing to restrict access to vaccines

FDA may link COVID vaccines to child deaths using VAERS data. VAERS reports cannot be used to assess vaccine safety. There is no known causal link to the vaccine. If ACIP were staffed with real scientists, they would reject this out of hand. But science doesn't matter under RFK.

Please join us tomorrow for the @oneillinstitute Colloquium. We'll explore RFK's attacks on @CDCgov & vaccines I will moderate the panel featuring leading thinkers in vaccine law and policy Wednesday, September 10, from 1:20–2:50 ET Hotung Faculty Dining Room at Georgetown Law

RFK Jr. Has Declared Full-Blown War on CDC — The agency needs to be strengthened, not torn down @medpagetoday.bsky.social @gfriedman.bsky.social www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/the-...

RFK's MAHA Commission out today is a singular disappointment & failure Yes, we need major investments & regulation to reduce the crushing burden of chronic diseases. But the Report contains no new funding, no regulation, & no innovative thinking It just capitulates to industry

RFK’s claim that Tylenol may cause autism is unscientific. He draws broad conclusions from associational studies & doesn’t wait for the careful analysis. He shoots from the hip, goes public with his suspicions, & causes panic in the public

I can't stress enough that Florida's decision to end vaccine mandates is dangerous It will pose high risks to children and families in Florida, but the decision will profoundly harm all Americans as Floridians travel the country Vacations to Disney World will become more perilous

RFK Jr. to appoint 7 new members to ACIP. This simply is not how science is supposed to work. You don't get to hand pick unqualified & conflicted scientific advisers & then claim you are following science. It saddens me but the public cannot trust ACIP and CDC under this Health Secretary

Florida's decision to end school vaccine mandates is a blaring 5 star alarm. School vaccinations date back a century. This will cause great harm everywhere as unvaccinated kids travel in the US & globally. We'll see a frightening return of diseases that have long been eliminated

In a note to CDC staff, RFK says, "We ended the measles outbreak in Texas by surging vaccines" "And we have played a key role in coordinating the federal H5N1 bird flu response" Facts: RFK castigated measles vaccines & prolonged the outbreak The H5N1 response is weak & chaotic

With Jim O'Neill appointed as Interim CDC director, we're seeing a pattern First, RFK fires eminent scientists Then he appoints loyalists without credentials He then takes the advice of loyalists Finally he says, "you see, I have restored trust in science." RFK did the same thing with ACIP

RFK's selection of Jim O’Neill as Interim CDC Director tells you all you need to know. At today's HHS, loyalty and fidelity to political orthodoxy is the sole criteria for a high level health position. What's not needed are actual qualifications & deep public health experience.

So, today I finally got an official letter firing me from the scientific board of NIH's Fogarty International Center. The letter read: You "serve at the pleasure of the Secretary of Health and Human Services. As such, your appointment has been rescinded"

Monarez by law can only be fired by the president who has been silent. RFK fired her & she refuses to go. The sheer chaos is notable in addition to the lawlessness & thinly veiled attack on science & the CDC. Once the shining crown of federal agencies, CDC is now gutted

RFK’s firing of Susan Monarez with Trump’s blessing shows clearly that science is now a matter of political orthodoxy and blind political loyalty, rather than evidence-based. Make no mistake. Monarez lost her job because she wouldn’t fall in line with RFK’s anti-vaccine agenda

I’ve worked closely w/CDC for decades. CDC is the world’s leading public health agency. The firing of the first Senate confirmed director & resignation of senior officials is a tragedy for public health. Staff morale is plummeting. All this after CDC’s campus came under attack

Join me for the first session of the @oneillinstitute.bsky.social‬ 2025 Colloquium. We are kicking off the semester with a discussion on the MAHA Commission and if it can really make America healthy again. oneill.law.georgetown.edu/events/oneil...

Today, SCOTUS permitted Trump to resume mass termination of medical research grants. The justices have failed to be a constitutional check on the president. Congress has the spending power, not the president. Slashing research funding is political & will gut US scientific leadership.

RFK Jr. should reflect on why AAP has supported every CDC & HHS vaccine recommendation from every administration. Until now. Scientists have lost all trust in HHS under RFK. The agency is blatantly political. Here's why AAP supported COVID vaccines for children jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Draft of White House Report Suggests Kennedy Won’t Push Strict Pesticide Regulations www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/w... It was utterly predictable RFK would cave to industry jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

RFK Jr is the most ruinous HHS Sec in my lifetime. He lies & misleads about science & vaccines; he appoints hacks to vital posts; & he takes healthcare from the poor. But it would be a grave error to impeach him. He hasn't committed High Crimes & it would set a horrible precedent

Senator Blumenthal's letter to Sec Kennedy re Robert Malone is chilling. RFK Jr has spent a career fomenting distrust & even animosity toward ph officials. Not only should Malone be immediately dismissed from ACIP but also all ACIP members that he fired should be reinstated.

See the statement by Michele Goodwin & I on Trump & RFJ's attacks on independent scientific advisors. Bringing this close to home, I was recently dismissed from the Fogarty Int'l Center Board at NIH. No reason given other than political #StandUpforScience

Halting mRNA vaccine funding destroys Trump's legacy for Operation Warp Speed & is anything but America First. This will hobble US scientific innovation & weaken pandemic preparedness. Investments in cutting edge technologies is vital

In an upcoming interview w/ @BBC, I'll discuss HHS' misguided cut in mRNA vaccine research. mRNA COVID vaccines saved millions. It holds great promise for novel diseases like flu & is vital for pandemic response. RFK has had a long-held pet peeve against mRNA technology & vaccines

HHS' private health tracking system w/ Big Tech should worry all Americans. There are few privacy safeguards. Medical records are personal & intimate. Health records might be shared with insurers, businesses, ICE, & law enforcement I don't trust RFK & Oz with patient records

The Amer Academy of Pediatrics’ call to end non-medical exemptions for school vaccinations provoked a fierce anti-vax response. But there’s no legal or ethical reason for exemptions , which are being widely abused & leading to measles outbreaks

I’ve worked with USPSTF for decades. Firing the best scientists & installing handpicked loyalists isn’t the way science works. Why wouldn’t our government want rigorous unbiased public health advice? We can’t trust RFK Jr to make decisions in the public interest