A really inspiring story captured in this new book by Dixon Chibanda We screen the film version of this in our global health class www.friendshipbench.org

Scoop: The Trump administration is planning a policy change that could make it harder for immigrants to get green cards and other approvals if they are from countries subject to the president’s travel ban, according to internal documents. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

#UHC is at the heart of the US governmen’s now 6-week shutdown. Worth a read, as more Republicans and their constituents call for Trump to back down.

Key numbers in #SriLanka budget economynext.com/key-numbers-...

There’s a level of impunity and injustice that’s incomparable associated with the oppression and murder of Palestinians. We can’t both side it. That suffering has to be recognized in its own right / and the impunity it’s steeped in.

Kendrick Lamar is the top nominee for the 2026 Grammy Awards with nine nods. Lady Gaga has seven and Sabrina Carpenter, Bad Bunny and Leon Thomas, a singer, songwriter and producer, each have six. nyti.ms/3JMlFvr

‘Huge victory’ in Portland as judge’s final order bars Trump from sending national guard

Isn’t this extortion though?

I have criminally high amount of light blue shirts! Need to upgrade my style with more colours.

I will be giving this invited talk at the McGill @mcgillfamilymed.bsky.social on "Making Our Voices Matter in Global Health Solution Building" on Nov. 17 at 12.30 PM. You can join in person or online. More Details: www.mcgill.ca/familymed/ch... #globalhealth @mcgillghp.bsky.social

Our students are very lucky to have Zackie Achmat in our first session in Fundamentals in Global Health today! Zackie is fresh off a powerful Global Health Night talk which received a standing ovation! @madhupai.bsky.social @mcgillghp.bsky.social

Zackie Achmat receives a standing ovation, as stressed the importance of solidarity. He asks us to value all forms solidarity! To support those affected by authoritarian approaches to governance including those in the U.S.

Catherine Farmer introduces the inaugural recipient of the Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. Zackie speaks of his journey in access to medicines &the value of of solidarity, including international solidarity. We need to support all including our colleagues in the U.S.

Catherine Farmer introduces the inaugural recipient of the Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. We are kicking off the talk by Zackie soon! You can live stream it here: www.youtube.com/live/a6JOnJ0...

Madhu introduces the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for Global Health Equity. Madhu says that we are taking Paul’s “we don’t give up on people because of who they are and where they live” messaging seriously. Countering failures of imagination is the goal. www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

We have Prof. Madhu Pai, inaugural chair of Dept. of Global and Public Health - promising that McGill are doubling down on #globalhealth at a time it’s under threat. Dept. of Global and Public Health just launched a BA in global health, investing in young people!

We are kicking off global health night #McGillGHN2025 with student speakers introducing the agenda and ground rules tonight. And Dean Fellows welcoming all! We got Zackie Achmat as our speaker this night. He received the inaugural Paul Farmer Award for health equity.

We came together to highlight the intentional erosion of the future of #globalhealth leadership - impacting trainees&mentors. We offer structural&cultural shifts as starting points of change. Pls read&share. @plosglobalpublichealth.org @mcgilldgph.bsky.social journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Gosh! the Witcher season 4 writing is so terrible. It’s not Liam (he is fine but Cavill’s miss is definitely felt). I mean why did they have to turn it into some typical Hollywood action movie trope. come on! save your own soul, please don’t sellout.

All the ongoing attacks on science & international aid has an important consequence: the destruction of global health training opportunities and the weakening of future global health leadership @shashikalb.bsky.social & fellow young professionals journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

We came together to highlight the intentional erosion of the future of #globalhealth leadership - impacting trainees&mentors. We offer structural&cultural shifts as starting points of change. Pls read&share. @plosglobalpublichealth.org @mcgilldgph.bsky.social journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

NEW Essay in PLOS Global Public Health by @shashikalb.bsky.social, Jane K. Fieldhouse, Inosha Alwis, Lucía Abascal Miguel, Canice Christian and Nelson Evaborhene: Disinvesting in the future leadership of global health has already begun: What can we do about it? journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Back in Montreal and up with the sun. Here’s proof. A capture of sunrise over the city of #Montreal.

Really important talk and messaging by Michael Mann drawing a clear line between profiteering and climate crisis denialism & attacks on public health. He says that the antidote to doomism is ‘doing’. Asks us to stay engaged in countering disinformation and policy failures.

Happy Diwali or Deepavali for all those celebrating. We need more light and more acts that illuminate our world, more than ever. Wishing all a time filled with good things.

An essential reading to understand the context/history and the gravity of current impunity towards violating international humanitarian law - the role and targeted attacks towards special rapporteur Francesca Albanese. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/o...

Both Canada and the U.S. in the verge of losing measles elimination status - I cannot help but think if these were low and middle income countries - how this failure in public health would be reported/framed.

UPDATE: Cornell Drops Its Discrimination Case Against a Pro-Palestine Professor After Public Outcry: “I think the pressure of the community and the outpouring of outrage for what happened to Cheyfitz contributed immensely.” www.thenation.com/article/soci...

lol. What a diva

In our new piece in @bmj.com, @michaeldgreen.com & I argue that diversity matters when it comes to medical school admission not only for fairness, equality, & equity but also because research shows that population health outcomes are better with a diverse medical workforce A matter of life & death

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B

I am excited for Seth and Steph Curry’s first game together this season - there’s a poetic justice vibe to it.

Calls to imprison political opponents and deploy national guard as a show of strength/intimidation? What is happening? Has anyone not studies how Hitler rose to power and the political strategies he used - and the parallels with the current US context? buff.ly/QGPb4n1

A really nice piece on the uprisings in South Asia. #SriLanka #Nepal and #Bangladesh

I strongly resonated with this paper! Often times, lived experience be it racism, visa inequity, or any other experience, is difficult to understand without living through it. It affects policies, priorities, and limits of our imagination. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Happy to see #SriLanka becoming a tourism hotspot which helps economic growth especially for the informal sector. I also hope regulations are there for environment protection/local business. Sri Lanka tourist arrivals rise 30.2-pct in September

EXCLUSIVE: In her first interview all year, Susan Monarez, CDC director for only 29 days, tells me why Trump/RFK fired her and where this is all headed. The CDC director is an “inherently political position, but that doesn’t mean that it has to be politically compromised”, she tells @nature.com.

Why Buddhist monks in #SriLanka are against banning of corporal punishment against children escapes me. What is the philosophy that guides them?

Omg. Warriors finally settled their roster. We can have some hopeful basketball now. What a summer.

A beautiful way to live life and depart from it. It’s a loss for the world, loss of Jane Goodall.

Miliband tells Musk to ‘get the hell out of our politics and our country’ on.ft.com/3IKTvjW

A wonderful opportunity to focus your studies with a BA in #globalhealth at the McGill Department of Global and Public Health, as a new student or an existing undergrad. You can choose from five different streams of focus. Learn more: www.mcgill.ca/global-publi...

What even? What are we trying to prove here? Evolution of toxic masculinity?

Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain will denounce what he calls “the politics of grievance” on Tuesday, seeking to revive his plummeting approval numbers with a warning about embracing intolerance that is directly aimed at the anti-immigration Reform UK party. Here's what to know.

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ✨ figured out what stars are made of ✨ when she was just 25. 🔭🧪 Her PhD thesis basically established the Harvard astro department — at a time when Harvard didn't officially allow woman students. I wrote this little profile to mark the 100th anniversary of her thesis:

‘Science demands action’: world leaders and UN push climate agenda forward despite Trump’s attacks

Hands down one of the most impressive, inspiring, principled politicians in the U.S. (and I’m not just saying this cuz of that awesome Wu Tang video 😉) Also, given the current environment, this is also a gutsy thing to do (plenty of Dems would be too worried to do this)

British artists reclaim St George’s flag with a message of inclusivity

If this happened in a low and middle income country, will we call it corruption?

Agreed. I’ve been thinking a lot of David Rose this past week and about why the Ezra Kleins of this world did not think that it warranted the same kind of attention as the murder of Charlie Kirk.