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Associate Prof, modeler, health economist, co-creator of impactcounter.com
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Brooke Nichols
PLOS Medicine
29 days ago
Next up in our 'meet the editors' is Academic Editor Brooke Nichols (
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
), Associate Professor of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health (
@busph.bsky.social
). Brooke specializes in infectious disease modeling and health economics. 🧪
#MedSky
#PLOSMedicine
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
29 days ago
The newly reported increase in global childhood death rates, largely from infectious diseases, can be directly attributed to cuts to foreign aid, CEID faculty
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
(
@busph.bsky.social
) tells
@wbur.org
.
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
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Global child mortality projected to rise for the first time in decades
The Gates Foundation and the University of Washington estimate that more than 200,000 more kids will die this year than last.
https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2025/12/08/global-child-mortality-rate
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
about 1 month ago
"We should not accept this as an inevitable consequence of global crises—all of which, in one way or another, are man-made (like the climate crisis), and some intentional and man-made (like the cutting of foreign assistance),"
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
(
@busph.bsky.social
) continues.
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
about 1 month ago
"The idea that the number of kids dying before their 5th birthday could rise for the 1st time this century should shock all of us. What if it were your child?" CEID faculty Dr
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
tells
@newsweek.com
in response to new Gates Foundation report.
www.newsweek.com/child-deaths...
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Child deaths set to rise for first time this century, report
The number of children dying before their fifth birthday is projected to rise for the first time this century, according to a new report.
https://www.newsweek.com/child-deaths-set-to-rise-for-first-time-this-century-report-11153543
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jamelle
3 months ago
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused
apnews.com/article/myan...
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Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has repeatedly said “no one has died" because of his government’s decision to gut its foreign aid program.
https://apnews.com/article/myanmar-usaid-thailand-trump-rubio-aid-7f6919a1863ceea2ddf6708e47bb88f0
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Thijs Kuiken
4 months ago
Conservatieve inschatting is dat inmiddels half miljoen mensen zijn gestorven door abrupte stopzetting van USAID financiering voor HIV-AIDS projecten.
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Deze wetenschappers wisten dat er veel doden zouden vallen toen Trump de ontwikkelingshulp stopzette. Nu tellen ze de slachtoffers
Ontwikkelingshulp: Onderzoekers berekenden hoeveel doden er zullen vallen nu Trump de Amerikaanse ontwikkelingshulp USAID heeft stopgezet. Voorspellingen lopen in de miljoenen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/31/zij-telt-hoeveel-levens-het-stopzetten-van-amerikaanse-hulp-kost-we-weten-wat-de-sterftecijfers-zijn-als-mensen-hun-medicijnen-niet-krijgen-a4904556?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share&utm_term=share-modal
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Toef Jaeger
4 months ago
Een tool berekende dat met het stoppen van USAid bijna 150.000 volwassenen en ruim 300.000 kinderen stierven. Dat zijn 88 sterfgevallen per uur. Elke 3,18 minuten sterft er een extra kind aan longontsteking, iedere 4,15 minuten een aan diarree. Dit zijn dan nota bene nog voorzichtige berekeningen.
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Deze wetenschappers wisten dat er veel doden zouden vallen toen Trump de ontwikkelingshulp stopzette. Nu tellen ze de slachtoffers
Ontwikkelingshulp: Onderzoekers berekenden hoeveel doden er zullen vallen nu Trump de Amerikaanse ontwikkelingshulp USAID heeft stopgezet. Voorspellingen lopen in de miljoenen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/31/zij-telt-hoeveel-levens-het-stopzetten-van-amerikaanse-hulp-kost-we-weten-wat-de-sterftecijfers-zijn-als-mensen-hun-medicijnen-niet-krijgen-a4904556
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Brooke Nichols
Nienke van Dijk
4 months ago
Voedsel, medicijnen, voorbehoedsmiddelen: de rigoreuze en onmiddellijke stopzetting van USAID betekent 88 extra doden per uur (!).
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
maakte een impactmeter die de doden telt.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
En hier een interview:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
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Deze wetenschappers wisten dat er veel doden zouden vallen toen Trump de ontwikkelingshulp stopzette. Nu tellen ze de slachtoffers
Ontwikkelingshulp: Onderzoekers berekenden hoeveel doden er zullen vallen nu Trump de Amerikaanse ontwikkelingshulp USAID heeft stopgezet. Voorspellingen lopen in de miljoenen.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/31/zij-telt-hoeveel-levens-het-stopzetten-van-amerikaanse-hulp-kost-we-weten-wat-de-sterftecijfers-zijn-als-mensen-hun-medicijnen-niet-krijgen-a4904556
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Brooke Nichols
Adam Sternbergh
7 months ago
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
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Brooke Nichols
Brad Friedman / The BRAD BLOG
7 months ago
More Than 300,000 'Preventable' Deaths Since Musk, Trump, DOGE Shutdown of USAID: Today's
#BradCast
Guest: Dr.
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
, Assoc. Prof of Global Health at Boston U; Also: Admin attacks CBO as budget bill found to add trillions to deficit... FULL STORY, LISTEN:
bradblog.com?p=15406
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Brooke Nichols
Mina Kimes
7 months ago
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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BostonJoan 🏳️🌈 🦫
7 months ago
Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count. Many thanks to my BU colleague
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science. 103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
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Brooke Nichols
April Houston
7 months ago
#ForeignAid
cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. Thanks
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for your role in measuring/documenting the impact of this cruelty!
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
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Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opinion/elon-musk-doge-usaid.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LE8.FkMP.i1qe42r0ntff&smid=url-share
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Brooke Nichols
Jeff Goodell
7 months ago
The best metric of Elon's time in Washington.
@impactcounter.bsky.social
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And meanwhile, “The Last of Us” is about to become a reality TV series.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
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Killer fungus could spread through parts of Europe due to climate change
Aspergillus can cause lung problems when it spreads to humans
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/aspergillus-fungus-europe-climate-change-lung-problems-b2744966.html#
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
8 months ago
On his @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social spoke with fellow CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social about the human toll of US foreign aid cuts, as calculated by her @impactcounter.bsky.social.
http://spr.ly/633262xO74
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Episode 12: The Dismantling of U.S. Foreign Aid and the Consequences for Global Health - The Global Health Politics Podcast
In this episode, Joseph Harris explores the actions taken by the Trump administration to dismantle U.S. foreign aid the consequences that these actions will have for global health. He sits down with Dr. Beth Cameron, a former Senior Adviser to the...
http://spr.ly/633232xO7F
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
8 months ago
Reflecting on changes over Trump's first 100 days in office, @freep.com cites stats from CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social, estimating the toll of cuts to PEPFAR.
http://spr.ly/633262v6Us
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Trump made good on cruel promises, ruining countless lives. It's made America worse. | Opinion
The calamitous nature of President Donald Trump's first 100 days in office shouldn't surprise anyone who was paying attention before the election.
http://spr.ly/633212v6UT
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Brooke Nichols
Fiona Zerbst
8 months ago
103 people die every hour thanks to US funding cuts, according to
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
. We can criticise aid, but it does save lives.
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Brooke Nichols
BeingHelpish 💙 🇺🇦
8 months ago
This weekend, I worked on my protest signs for
#MayDay
and ended up doing a meme version of this one. The stats are horrifying and heartbreaking. Amazing work by Dr. Brooke Nichols that should be more publicized.
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
Thursday, May 1, 4-7PM 300 N Salisbury St Raleigh, NC
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
#USAID
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. More than 180,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Brooke Nichols
Jeff Nichols
9 months ago
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
(no relation) has assembled an extraordinary dashboard showing the human impact of the destruction of USAid. Of anything I have posted, I beg that you take a moment to look at it.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
9 months ago
On BU Giving Day, this Wednesday, please consider making a gift of any amount to CEID. Your support helps fund our work such as
@impactcounter.bsky.social
developed by
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
to quantify lives lost due to cuts to PEPFAR. Donate directly to CEID at
give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date. More than 150,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
#USAID
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
9 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Katharine Hayhoe
10 months ago
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social
have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut?
www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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Brooke Nichols
Jacques Dupont
10 months ago
People are really better than natural disasters at killing other people.
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
10 months ago
CEID faculty Dr. Brooke Nichols (
@busph.bsky.social
) developed
@impactcounter.bsky.social
to serve as a tool to quantify, both for government officials and general public, the toll that cuts to foreign aid will have on real lives.
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2025/tracking-anticipated-deaths-from-usaid-funding-cuts/
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Brooke Nichols
Boston University Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases
10 months ago
Her calculations estimate that hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost to infectious diseases like malaria, TB, & HIV due to cuts to USAID, PEPFAR, & Medicaid. View real-time updates at her
@impactcounter.bsky.social
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
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Impact Dashboard - Impact Counter | Impact Counter
Visualize the human impact of funding changes for aid and support organizations.
https://www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?view=table&sort=title&order=asc
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter
10 months ago
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the combined human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Wes Rogers
10 months ago
Low domestic measles vaccination rates should concern us all. Unfortunately we can no longer think of domestic travel as necessarily safer than international travel when it comes to measles-exposure risk.
#IDsky
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Revising US MMR Vaccine Recommendations Amid Changing Domestic Risks
This Viewpoint discusses updating the existing recommendation for an additional early MMR dose to infants aged 6 to 11 months traveling to any region with increased probability of measles exposure.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2831828
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The annual lives at stake if cuts to
#Medicaid
are enacted:
Medicaid.impactcounter.com
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
If the cuts to Medicaid pass the Senate and are enacted: One American will die every 18.3 minutes and one additional American will face catastrophic healthcare costs every 42 seconds as a consequence.
Medicaid.impact.com
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Brooke Nichols
Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
10 months ago
A YES on cloture is a YES for the bill. Do not let anyone play games with you.
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David Corn
10 months ago
If you don't fight, you can't win.
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Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV
#CROI2025
#FundingCutsCostLives
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Impact Counter
10 months ago
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date. Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb
#endTB
#FundingCutsCostsLives
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