This is today’s CDC's website. Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), used for decades to create safe prevention strategies for kids is gone. Data for #chronic disease, #HIV, and risky foods in #pregnancy are gone. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is missing.

Today 10 #Faculty Champions led 120 teams of all 1st year nursing, medicine & public health students at Emory through our #Interprofessional Health Challenge hackathon where they’ll create concepts to promote better health in Emory’s signature #IPE [email protected] #academicsky

So proud of Voices of Health award recipients @tina-ann.bsky.social and @jlguest.bsky.social! Dr. Thompson and Dr. Guest are making a profound impact on health and well-being through their commitment to community engagement and health equity initiatives. #AcademicMedicine #MedSky #PublicHealth

Honored by this recognition! Communicating science and health information in ways that promote trust, health equity, and healthier lives has never been more important. #scicomm #academicsky #publichealth @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

Our faculty @jlguest.bsky.social's "Posttraumatic stress disorder and its associations with antiretroviral therapy (ART) nonadherence and among veterans with HIV" shows PTSD increased ART and recommends increased PTSD screening #HIV #AIDS #PublicHealth #MedSky pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39760706/

The freeze of work and communication.. “signal an intention to drastically impede important scientific research during the course of his second term. Things can get worse from here if we don’t speak up now.” #academicsky #publichealth #NIH

“The admin…has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external comms, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports...” Timely/clear #communication is key. Restricting access to info or preventing dissemination is antithetical to #publichealth.

Our world is connected. Working together and recognizing the humanity and health of all is the way we stay safe and healthy. #WHO #publichealth #academicsky #publichealthsky #epidemiology

After the CDC confirmed the first death from H5N1 bird flu on Monday, we're sure you have questions. We sat down with @jlguest.bsky.social to get answers!

Building my long list of things I need to do in time I cannot find. #academicsky

Noble Laureates oppose RFK for cabinet: “In addition to his lack of credentials or relevant experience in medicine, science, public health, or administration, Mr. Kennedy has been an opponent of many health-protecting and life-saving vaccines” #academicsky #episky www.nytimes.com/2024/12/09/h...

Faculty senates should play an important role in university governance. #academicsky www.texastribune.org/2024/12/06/t...

😂😂 #academicsky

I never remember that reference season is so time consuming. #academicsky

What a life. A. Cornelius Baker, who spent nearly 40 years working with urgency and compassion to improve the lives of people with HIV and AIDS by promoting testing, securing federal funding for research and pushing for a vaccine, died this month. He was 63. #GiftLink 🎁

The Great Barrington Declaration was NOT great.

Policies have deep implications for the health of women and families. Lack of access will take a long time to build back. #publichealth #reproductive #healthcare

Sarah McBride is a #Masterclass in grace and the reason people should be in politics, to help their constituents.

#birdflu in #rawmilk in California.

Trump’s previous Surgeon General.

#CDC has confirmed the 1st U.S. case of H5 #bird #flu in a child. The patient had mild symptoms, received flu antivirals, and is recovering. An investigation into the child’s possible H5 exposure source is ongoing.

Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA. In Lancet today this study finds US life expectancy disparities has grown over the last two decades with differences increasing from 12.6 years in 2000 to 20.4 years in 2021. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Vaccine critic propagating disinformation as CDC director. The harm that will be done.

If you need some help figuring out how to navigate the controls while flying the Bluesky app, I highly recommend these two videos by @kellyscaletta.bsky.social . Bluesky lets you "choose your own algorithm," it has no set algorithm. youtu.be/m_V2PiMgs4c?... youtu.be/wog3sjR_DXY?...

Trump’s #nomination of #RFK, JR and Matt Gaetz are ridiculous and dangerous - but don’t forget his other awful nominations. These two cannot be negations for the others nor should they help the others seem adequate compared to these dismally low bars of dangerous nominations.

Really scary. Attacking the childhood vaccine schedule directly could have decades-long effects on public health. Vaccines are one of the great public health achievements of human history. They have saved literally millions of lives. And yet here we are. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/19/h...

The Emory Farmworker Project provides care to workers in South GA. Their work is hard, long, isolating and many of them are food insecure themselves with little access to care, safe housing, food, family. The work they do feeds us.

So did all these news orgs just schedule these pieces for *after* the election or what

Local immigration/advocacy groups. @ufw.bsky.social

Thoughts and prayers for our email inboxes after this one. www.popsci.com/health/is-ra...

This will be the first of 6 essays I wrote about RFK Jr. In this first piece, I describe a conversation I had with him about 20 years ago, which marked the beginning of his anti-vaccine activism. Is this the man we want to be in charge of our health? open.substack.com/pub/pauloffi...

Trump, health, science, and the next 4 years. "unlikely renewal of health insurance subsidies will result in 4 M losing coverage; increasingly threatening and ambiguous laws around reproductive and OB care are making practicing medicine in the US a risky business." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...