A brilliant essay by my friend @helenouyang.bsky.social in the New York Times Magazine. Writing notes is one of my least favorite parts of working in the ER. But learning how to write them teaches physicians important skills. What impact will AI have on that skill? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/m...

Uganda has not yet confirmed it publicly, but it appears to have a #Marburg outbreak. A very reliable source tells STAT that 2 cases have been confirmed. The US government has issued a level 4 — aka do not travel there — advisory based on intel it has received. www.statnews.com/2026/06/30/m...

New in @thelancet.com with @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social, Martin Cetron, and @drdebhoury.bsky.social — we argue the current US response to the Ebola outbreak in DR Congo and Uganda is breaking with longstanding global health policy in very worrying ways. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

📢 New in @thelancet.com Examining the #Ebola outbreak we discuss U.S. policy shifts & implications for American global health leadership Grateful to @craigspencer.bsky.social, Marty Cetron, @drdebhoury.bsky.social & colleagues in DRC & Uganda on the frontlines. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The milder symptoms—and maybe lower death rate—of the current Ebola outbreak are good news. But they could paradoxically make it harder to control the virus. Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social says patients are naming fewer contacts and those unfollowed contacts “can blow up into something much bigger."

A month into the growing Ebola outbreak, I wrote about what worries me, why the numbers don’t tell the whole story, and why communities are understandably pushing back on the response. open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social shared his personal Ebola story with @markpatinkin.bsky.social. “I had been taking care of 30 to 40 patients at any one point in Guinea,” he said, “and now there were 30 to 40 people to take care of me.”

Pandemic Center Affiliate @craigspencer.bsky.social talks with Senator @shaheen.senate.gov to discuss the threat of the ongoing #Ebola outbreak, impact cuts to #USAID has had on the US's response & what this means for US preparedness to infectious diseases. Watch ⤵️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=byC2...

Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social recalls surviving #ebola with Providence Journal. As someone who fought & survived it, his voice is an important one. He shares that the current outbreak in the DRC could get far worse because of US cuts on the global health programs needed to fight it.

"People on the street in Kenya are angry because for many of them, this looks like colonial decision making all over again," Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social says. "That we can come into a country... do whatever the hell we want has led to an incredible amount of anti-American backlash."

We continue to think that if we protect ourselves here, that's sufficient, but the only thing that's going to lower risk for Americans is making sure there is no #Ebola. — @craigspencer.bsky.social Protests continue in Kenya as quarantine facility being built by the US for American citizens.

Until I got back on the line with @craigspencer.bsky.social I'd forgotten that Trump railed against Craig returning to the US after he'd treated patients with ebola. This was in 2014!! Before DJT was president, before COVID. This convo is worth your ears: slate.com/podcasts/wha...

Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social has witnessed Ebola as a physician and a patient. He talks about what scares him about the current outbreak, what it’s like to treat the disease on the ground, and what lessons he fears we still haven’t learned. 🎧 podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/what-we-must...

Three weeks into the growing Ebola outbreak in eastern Congo and Uganda, I take stock of what’s working well, and what still worries me. All that and more, and all for free, on my Substack 👇 open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social compares the current Ebola outbreak, which is nearing 1,000 confirmed cases, to the 2024 Rwanda Marburg outbreak, in which the US joined partners to rapidly deploy vaccines and treatments, successfully containing the outbreak. ⤵️

Please consider signing onto this letter in support of the highest level of care for Americans re Ebola- proud to stand with @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social @craigspencer.bsky.social and Anne Schuchat www.idsociety.org/globalassets... @altcdc.altgov.info @firedbutfighting.bsky.social

🚨@drdebhoury.bsky.social, @craigspencer.bsky.social, Anne Schuchat & I drafted an open letter to Congress expressing concerns about the proposed use of third-country facilities for Americans potentially exposed to or infected with Ebola. Colleagues, please consider signing: tinyurl.com/Ebola-Letter

I joined @pbsnews.org tonight to talk about the U.S. response to the ongoing Ebola outbreak. I worry we have our priorities inverted. The primary focus on keeping Ebola out at all costs will ultimately make it harder to end this outbreak. Watch the interview for more: youtu.be/OplGTz0nGPU?...

Center Affiliate @craigspencer.bsky.social joined @nbcnews.com's Meet The Press yesterday and shared his expertise on the #ebola outbreak crisis in the DRC. "I expect the 1000 or so cases we are reporting now is probably just a fraction of the actual true cases on the ground."

The White House is intent on keeping Ebola out, at all costs. The U.S. is planning to send Americans exposed to or infected with Ebola to Kenya, instead of bringing them home for care. Please read and share—this is unbelievable and infuriating. craigaspencer.substack.com/p/keeping-eb...

Questions about Ebola? And the U.S. response? Answers here from @craigspencer.bsky.social who can speak first-hand about his experiences as a healer -- and as a patient www.youtube.com/watch?v=rr0P...

I spend a lot of time answering Ebola questions for media, elected officials, and family. So I wrote up some quick thoughts on where this outbreak stands, and what to pay attention to in the days and weeks ahead. craigaspencer.substack.com/p/ebola-upda...

“I’ve seen Ebola up close. I got it while treating patients in West Africa in 2014,” Craig Spencer writes. “I know how destructive the disease can be — and how unprepared we are for its return.”

The early trajectory of the Ebola outbreak in DRC is alarming. Spread of the disease likely went undetected for months. Fast detection and response are crucial to stop outbreaks.

“It's just a scattered mess right now. I don't think ​we have anything close to a real idea of how many cases there are,” says @craigspencer.bsky.social:

LISTEN🎧 With a global health emergency declared, @npr.org speaks to @craigspencer.bsky.social about what doctors are facing: "This would have been a tough outbreak to manage in the best-case scenario, but we are dealing with arguably the worst-case scenario."

“We found ourselves weeks, maybe months behind when this first started spreading. Over the last year, we lost a lot of the response capacity, particularly here in the US” — @craigspencer.bsky.social With over 300 suspected cases in the DRC & Uganda, officials work to contain the #Ebola outbreak.

1/ Over the weekend, news broke about an Ebola outbreak in Central Africa. It's an incredibly concerning situation for that region. In fact, one of my friends who worked in this region texted me: “I’ve worked in the DRC for a quarter of a century, but I have never felt so sad about what’s to come.”

Public health professor and emergency room physician Dr. Craig Spencer, who is an Ebola survivor, says this Ebola outbreak could be the fourth largest in history.

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

A year ago I warned what would happen if the US tore down our disease detection system around the world With Hantavirus & Ebola we are seeing VERY clearly what we’ve lost And why it matters Read my @theatlantic.com piece from last year outlining what happened www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Even if the Trump administration refuses to rejoin the WHO — a position it reiterated in the last few days — it should ensure that CDC is able to coordinate with the WHO without asking permission” @craigspencer.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/h...

The hantavirus is a wake-up call. Will the Trump administration answer it? My latest for @statnews.com on the good, the bad, and the ugly of the U.S. hantavirus response so far www.statnews.com/2026/05/13/h... via @statnews.com

What do you actually know about why people distrust vaccines? @craigspencer.bsky.social (Brown University) sat in the room. He listened. He paid attention. This is what clinicians need to hear. 🎧 #CriticalCare #FOAMcc #ICU #MedEd #TheCriticalCareCommute

Really excited to join the Columbia Medical Journalism Workshop to talk about writing as a healthcare provider! Join us virtually tomorrow, Wednesday April 29 at 7pm ET for the Dialogues on Medical Journalism series! Register at the link below: upenn.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

The fallout over Anthropic and the Trump administration isn’t just a national security story It highlights a massive and looming public health risk I recently wrote for @theatlantic.com about what happens when health data is pushed through an ideologic filter www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

"The lesson here is pretty straightforward: When people lose agency over decisions about their own bodies, they don’t just lose trust in a specific policy. They lose trust in the system’s right to decide for them at all."

“Trust” is everywhere right now. Or more exactly, the lack of trust and how public health lost it—is the subject of countless conferences and panels. But we’ve actually lost trust twice—first globally, now here at home. I explain why in my free Substack ⬇️ open.substack.com/pub/craigasp...

Essential and exceptional reporting by @jeremyfaust.bsky.social on the Hep B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau that should've never been funded (and is apparently now cancelled) open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

We have the CDC-funded Hepatitis Vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau protocol. It’s worse than you thought. Check it out, first in Inside Medicine… with @pauloffit.bsky.social David Boulware and others. insidemedicine.substack.com/p/scoop-the-...

New Episode! In the Belly of the Anti-Vax Beast. @craigspencer.bsky.social joins me to discuss his trip to the nation’s largest anti-vaccine conference and what he learned about the people there and the organized forces threatening our public health. Links: tinyurl.com/5bxd78db

Our Center Affiliate @craigspencer.bsky.social warns @bostonglobe.com that the frustrations driving the MAHA movement can’t simply be dismissed. “I see a lot of my community almost unwilling to cede any ground” he says, in a call for honest engagement before misinformation fills the vacuum. More ⤵️

Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social doesn’t think the US medical establishment can go back to the pre-RFK Jr. way of things. “There’s not a world where I see, three years from now...we put all these things back,” he says. “I want us to say, 'we’re willing to engage in how to do things differently.'”

The health of Americans is at risk as those in power abandon evidence and process, and elevate anecdote and rhetoric in their place. Excellent article (if sad to read) www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/a...

LISTEN🎧 What can you learn at an anti-vax conference? Quite a lot, Dr. @craigspencer.bsky.social tells Dean @ashishkjha.bsky.social on the latest episode of A Moment in Health.

Remember Andrew Wakefield? Here he is with his friend RFK Jr. in 2020. Wakefield is the guy behind the fraudulent, retracted MMR–autism study. He lost his medical license for subjecting autistic children to unnecessary invasive procedures. Now, with Kennedy in power, he’s getting a second act.

Sharing my latest article, published today in @statnews.com First Opinion My co-author and I both lost our jobs and health insurance with #USAID this summer. Navigating the ACA marketplace taught us what millions face, & why behavioral & emotional science matters in healthcare access. #HealthPolicy

Grateful to @gabbystern.bsky.social for joining us today to share insights about communication as a key infrastructure to support global health in a conversation moderated by @craigspencer.bsky.social

📣 Attention Brown University Community! Join us on tomorrow @12PM for our Public Health in Practice Seminar. @craigspencer.bsky.social will host @gabbystern.bsky.social for a conversation on health communication as essential infrastructure for global health More: events.brown.edu/event/public...

Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social attended the Children’s Health Defense conference last weekend in Austin, Texas. Follow the link to read his sobering report on a movement he says is "exceptionally organized, disciplined, and determined."⤵️