Time for Canada to offer to move the UN from the USA to Canada (preferably one Eastern and one Western city)? Win-win-win for the UN independence, for urban economic growth and for Canada politically. @mark-carney.bsky.social @anitaoakvilleeast.bsky.social

A powerful session at #PrevConf25 on why health inequalities must be front and centre in cancer risk and primary prevention—co-chaired by Profs Davis & Bhatla, with key insights from Prof Chambwe, Prof Chibwesha, Dr McCullough & @countthedead.bsky.social.

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

#episky #mortality 📣 #Sweden #HMD series updated through 2024 🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org In 2024, the gap between #lifeexpectancy for men at birth and women at birth continues to narrow in Sweden.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 🫁 HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings, including of staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice. But not the Office of Smoking and Health (OSH). www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/h...

pewrsr.ch/3MNDkkW 11 Million Illegal immigrants in the US- and understanding where/why is essential to any non-hate based solution.

Years ago... we came up with a simple spreadsheet to calculate live saved from higher cig tax... Still be used... eg Bangladesh... Effective Tobacco Taxation Reduces Deaths and Increases Revenue thenewse.com/effective-to... @tcrgbath.bsky.social

External regulation!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

Really cool universal antivenom for snakebites?~100K snakebite deaths a year, including ~50K in India elifesciences.org/articles/54076 Universal Antivenom from Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h... @picardonhealth.bsky.social @isaacbogoch.bsky.social @dndi.org @who.int

To 258 million American friends, I am so pleased Donald Trump single handedly stopped you from overdosing on Fentynl. Phew! That was close.

The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

Please join me on May 21st for a stimulating discussion on global health featuring Sir Richard Peto, Prof Dean Jamison, and many others. Online and free. Register at: www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-pgme-... @picardonhealth.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @dlsphjournalism.bsky.social

Siddhartha Mukherjee's troubling diagnosis of Public Health erosion in the US. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social

I don’t blame the lobsters

Dear Friends in the US. You will understand why I am cancelling all trips, vacations in the US and purchases of American products. Canada and our brothers/sisters in Mexico will not be bullied by one man.

Shreya Jha writes thoughtfully about death, arts, and medical care. www.cmaj.ca/content/197/... @uoft.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social

Trump/Musk actions will kill people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @who.int

BigTobacco + (sloppy) economists = Nonsense economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c... ITC smuggles own cigs to scare finance Min then complains! Low cig excises in India means GoI loses Rs to BigTobacco See correct policy: www.epw.in/journal/2011... @mohfw.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social

Worth watching. USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust. open.substack.com/pub/insideme... @agawande.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social

"However, is there a bridge too far, a point where it is no longer appropriate for medicine and public health to accede? Under what conditions must the profession stand its ground and vocally oppose problematic policies or disinformation?"

Sometimes we get a piece into @plosglobalpublichealth.org that is so, so urgent. From my personal vantage point in North Texas, this Opinion by the incomparable Peter Hotez is one of them. Please do check it out and share widely.

It’s fascinating—& painful—to look back at Michelle Obama’s impressive record in improving America’s diet, especially for kids The GOP did all it could to torpedo it—that party has a long record of opposing progressive public health measures (they cry “nanny state!”) www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12...

How did COVID hybrid immunity build in Canada, India, China, and Sierra Leone? Lessons for early vax + need to understand African paradoxes. tiny.cc/2ph3001 @isaacbogoch.bsky.social @patrickborgnine.bsky.social @angusreidinstitute.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social

Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...

How Jimmy Carter’s global health efforts elevated ‘the art of the possible’ www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h... via @statnews.com #episky #medsky #science

1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times 2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

It was a privilege to work with Dr. Manmohan Singh on global commissions and to support India's National Health Mission. I showed him MDS data that NHM conservatively averted 1M child deaths, but further action could save even more. My thoughts are with his family. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

There was a Leverage episode about this, over a decade ago. It is not new, and you'd best not look too deeply into health economics if you don't like it, because it gets worse.

Can we halve deaths before age 70 by 2050 worldwide? Yes, with faster rates of progress on adult mortality... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We are hiring! Exciting post on adult malaria vaccine trial in Sierra Leone. Fasten your brains, this will be fun! tinyurl.com/AMRITrial Please share with networks @isaacbogoch.bsky.social @globalvectorhub.bsky.social @globalhealthnow.bsky.social @ghs.bsky.social @gatesfoundation.bsky.social

Quitting smoking and reducing initiation have avoided millions of cancer and other deaths. More to be done, especially to address low cessation rates in low education adults. Big federal excise hike best option @picardonhealth.bsky.social

#MedSky🧪 #OncoSky #publichealth Could #breastcancer survival rates be improved simply by timing treatment to a specific stage of the menstrual cycle? 🐁 & human data suggest sensitivity to #chemotherapy is affected by fluctuations in ovarian hormones. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A legend leaves the NYT.

"Immigration policy is long-term care policy," said David Grabowski, who's chronicled how foreign-born workers filled key nursing home roles early in the pandemic. The American Immigration Council estimates a third of home health aids in the U.S. are immigrants. www.axios.com/2024/12/04/t...

Just Released: The LSHTM Malaria Centre 2022-2024 Report is now available! See the latest insights on our progress & challenges in the fight against #malaria. Read more here: bit.ly/3Oq7ScT #MalariaResearch @lshtm-malaria.bsky.social

Scientists who have studied #H5N1 #birdflu for years are flummoxed by the lack of severe cases among the 55 human cases the US has confirmed this year. I talked to lots to explore the theories of what's going on. www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/b...

Walking pneumonia cases surging in Ontario children, with a rate more than three times higher than pre-COVID levels, new data show, by @alannasmith.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic... via @theglobeandmail.com #pediatrics

“RFK Jr. has apparently been trying to claim that he is not an anti-vaccine activist. This is a contemptible lie. Until he began his ill-fated presidential campaign, he had spent years being exactly that.” This is how you write about RFK Jr. Speak truth to power. www.science.org/content/blog...

@isaacbogoch.bsky.social @picardonhealth.bsky.social @helenbranswell.bsky.social @joho.bsky.social

India did not get "herd" immunity from widespread initial COVID wave in '20 but did get hybrid immunity after killer wave in '21 + successful vax program in later '21. So few '22-23 excess deaths. Claims of herd immunity in late '20, early '21 misled. Sadly ~3-4.5M Indians died, most in '21.

If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...

If only all public health professionals had as much courage and integrity as former FDA commissioner @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social He refuses to normalize or accept the destruction of American public health. I stand with him in solidarity and gratitude.

Interesed in the inteaction between global health, modelling and policy? Come join us at @mrc-outbreak.bsky.social as a technical analyst primarily working on malaria! www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Those who are ambivalent or even hostile about masking will feel different should H5N1 mutate into the next pandemic. The mortality rate is likely less than the 50% often quoted but is probably at least 10-15% or which is serious. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Mortality Epidemiology, UK 1982-2022 In the past 41 years, there have been substantial reductions in mortality at every age. Modern medicine, which includes vaccination, medications, surgeries, therapies, and approaches, as well as public health initiatives, have saved lives.

A shout out to my daughter, Shreya, on her second lead-authored paper- in a good neuroscience journal. Bravo Shreya! academic.oup.com/cercor/artic...

Very much this, from Dan Drezner. He focuses a lot on universities, but rightly so. U.S. educational, scientific and technological preeminence are closely linked — and all have a lot to do with the past openness of our society 1/ open.substack.com/pub/danieldr...

Saloni, Edouard, and Lucas wrote up the history of Our World in Data during the COVID pandemic. It's about the impact we hoped to achieve and how it felt to us during that time. ourworldindata.org/owid-covid-h...

According to Swiss Re Institute's report, “The future of excess mortality after COVID-19, if the ongoing impact of the disease is not curtailed, excess mortality rates may remain up to 3% higher than pre-pandemic levels in the US and 2.5% in the UK by 2033.” shorturl.at/eoFWt #MedSky #CardioSky

🪰" #CaymanIslands 🇰🇾 record first imported case of #Oropouche #virus" #arbovirus www.caymancompass.com/2024/11/21/c...