If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

When Trump began dismantling foreign aid last year, a lot of people were rightly worried about PEPFAR - the US program that has provides HIV care around the world. We finally have (some) official data, and I tried making sense of it here Story link below:

Vox: What really happened after Trump slashed HIV funding by by Pratik Pawar @vox.com @pratik-p.bsky.social bit.ly/4cS1VRI

Ozempic is now significantly cheaper in India than in the US. Why? The patent on semaglutide expired in India, allowing drugmakers to start making their own version at a fraction of the cost.

Ozempic just got a lot cheaper in India, as low as $14 vs $349 in the US For a country with 100 million diabetics and some of the highest heart disease rates in the world, this is kind of a big deal. @vox.com www.vox.com/future-perfe...

New reporting on what has happened to science under the Trump administration and HHS leadership, building on publicly available NIH grants data. Take-away: across-the-board cuts are reducing our capacity to discover & serve. Out today, via @pratik-p.bsky.social 🎁 www.vox.com/future-perfe...

New piece from @pratik-p.bsky.social on the frightening increase in parents now declining the Hep B vaccine for their newborns. www.vox.com/health/48175...

Dengue already kills thousands every year and by 2080, nearly 60% of the world’s population will be vulnerable. So when a company walks away from a drug w/ major promise—bcuz they won't make enough $$ from it—the stakes are much higher. @pratik-p.bsky.social/@vox.com: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

On the GPSW website today: @pratik-p.bsky.social's story for @vox.com on a historic flip in child malnutrition: www.vox.com/future-perfe...

Check out the results of the Class of 2025's investigation into health inequities in Boston. The first installment from @Anika Jane Beamer, Nanticha Ocharoenchai, @pratik-p.bsky.social, and Paulina (Paula) Rowińska was just published on @gbhnews.bsky.social: www.wgbh.org/news/health/...

I am nonbinary. The gender that no longer officially exists in the United States. I was offered the chance to change my gender designation to "X" on my passport and driver's license in 2023. I decided not to and here's why.

From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

25 countries have reported cholera outbreaks since the beginning of this year. Researchers say that public health officials have all the tools necessary to stop cholera. If that’s the case, why are cholera outbreaks still a thing in 2023? I report for Undark: