Please join us for our next global surgery research seminar, March 13, 9-10:30am ET. This month's topic: Telemedicine and Telesurgery. More information: www.pgssc.org/researchsemi... Register here: harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#inspired. Please watch her speech, it really demonstrates that compassion makes effective leadership. youtu.be/0i21cliuoXo?...

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science. Entire NIH departments will have no leaders. World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators. Is this what they want? Chaos? Destruction?

#Erasure If you are silent I'm the face of this, it will not save or spare you. Whether we count them or not trans people have always existed and will always exist. www.statnews.com/2025/02/25/c...

In a moment that feels upside down, I found this specific in guiding how I think and act anew when putting things right side up. The fact that our “Stuck in the Middle” paper was referenced gave me a bit of courage.

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

Folks in red states need to flood their Senators offices, town halls, etc. This fight for Medicaid isn’t only about health care, it’s about jobs (staff in hospitals, nursing homes, etc) and the future of rural and community hospitals.

My mom, a decade retired, still advocating for residents of long term care facilities. We’re lucky to have her. www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/02/21/a...

Another school curtails admissions, even offers already made. This is on #Trump, #Musk and #Vought. Time to fight back. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness, by @madhupai.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk... via @forbes.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social #GlobalHealth

It’s a long past time that unions, professional and civic organizations, religious institutions, and all people of goodwill descend on DC and march to the White House. The question is who will lead this? What is happening now is madness.

I remember several years ago when interviewed by a major news outlet in honor of this day... The entire time, he asked me about how hard it was to be a woman in science (I have plenty of fodder). At the end, he said "anything to add?" to which I said "yes, don't you want to know about my science?"

Please join us for our next Global Surgery Research Seminar - February 13, 9am EDT. Register here: harvard.zoom.us/j/93213711174 Watch the last seminar ("Colonialism in Global Surgery") here: www.pgssc.org/copy-of-past... @aaglobalsurgery.bsky.social @gendereqsurg.bsky.social

**New Paper** In this paper, our team has demonstrated that a telemedicine intervention led by community health workers to provide home-based post-cesarean care is acceptable (even preferred) by patients and CHWs in rural Rwanda. @partnersinhealth.bsky.social doi.org/10.1186/s407...

You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow. When we look back at Trump’s impact on (global/public) health we’d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.

"The [hu]man [soul] dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny." — Wole Soyinka  They’ve tested us (global/public health) and we’ve consistently failed. It is death by a thousand cuts. But our silence, our capitulation will not protect us. They have come for us knowing we have no soul.

Interested in public health? Here are four Harvard-based opportunities for undergraduates to gain exposure and experience. 4 days left to apply. my.reviewr.com/s2/site/Harv...

Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question. “We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.

Thanks to AmfAR for analyzing the effects of Donald J. Trump's Stop Work Orders for PEPFAR Programs.

Could the arc of the moral universe be a little shorter please

Our paper «  Learning analysis of health system resilience «  is now available in full at the Health Policy and Planning” journal. @seyeabimbola.bsky.social @Sarah Bernays academic.oup.com/heapol/artic...

After a year battling health issues, I’m so happy to back in Rwanda! Forgot how much I love being here. @partnersinhealth.bsky.social

Meta ending its DEI programs, according to their HR: “Instead of equity and inclusion programs,” Gale wrote, Meta plans to build programs “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.” Makes me think they didn’t understand DEI.

I am very involved in my small town's politics, including an elected position, and it is wild to me how little people care about equity. "Density is good - but not on my street." "My road repair is more important because of ...." People have a hard time seeing beyond their neighborhood.

A great way to end 2024! Our team’s first paper from our Mercury project, sharing Haitian, Malawian and Rwandan community health workers’ baseline survey results on COVID-19 vaccinations and perceptions. 1/3 esmed.org/MRA/mra/arti... @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @hlanthorn.bsky.social @ssrc.org

2024 has been a year. But it’s proven to me that I have people in my corner and that I can do hard things. Let’s go 2025!

And we get worse evaluations (including more spurious comments about our looks or “agenda”). This was really brought home to me when I co-taught a graduate class with a male instructor and could see both sets of our evaluations. 🙃

Women leave academia at higher rates than men at every career stage, and attrition is especially high among three groups: tenured faculty, women in non-STEM fields, and women employed at less prestigious institutions, a #ScienceAdvances analysis finds.

This moved me... “The survivors of Marburg virus disease among us—Dr Doris Uwamahoro and Dr Françoise Nizeyimana—recognise that reintegration and acceptance within the community might take time, but we wholeheartedly welcome the efforts to support our journey.“ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

When you’ve been asked to share your most impactful work, and you realize that how you define impact doesn’t align.

Join us - January 9, 9am ET/4pm CAT. Colonialism in Global Surgery. First joint seminar between PGSSC and CEGS (need to get them on BS!) Info/register at: www.pgssc.org/researchseminar @rennieqin.bsky.social @gendereqsurg.bsky.social @rcsiglobalsurgery.bsky.social @aaglobalsurgery.bsky.social

Timely to my discussions over the last 3 days. The teams have often been told what I have often heard - that they can’t be involved in their own evaluations and good evaluations are done by external people who don’t know the program or the context. As if those people don’t also hold biases.

I study patient administrative burden. Here is a thread of studies/articles I share often and/or have been suggesting for the newly interested. My first foray, with Austin Frakt. TL;DR ~1/4 people reported delayed/foregone care due to admin in past 12 mos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I’m in good company now @seyeabimbola.bsky.social

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

Really enjoyed spending days with the Touch Foundation, facilitating discussions about what they want to learn about their programs’ implementation and impact. It’s been a while since I’ve just gotten to “brainstorm” - the ideas were the product - and I loved it.

Learning statistics while residing in an Italian castle, meeting people from around the world while eating wonderful food. I TAed here for many years and it is every bit as magical as it sounds. www.bioepiedu.org?fbclid=IwZXh...

"Charting a new path in Open Science towards diversity, equity, and inclusion" Listen to I, @madhupai.bsky.social and @juliarobinson.bsky.social about what we've done to address the inequity in scientific publication through PLOS Global Public Health www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4WA...

And yet the academy continues to fetishize these metrics. 💔

And yet the academy continues to fetishize these metrics. 💔

Visited the Nagasaki Peace Park, the site of an atomic bombing nearly 80 years ago, where over 60,000 people died. The skies were filled with children singing. It was incredibly moving. Humans have the capacity to do terrible things. Humans also have the capacity to stop terrible things.

Nearly 1 in 3 Americans lack access to affordable, high-quality timely surgical care. All the gains we made from insurance coverage 2010->2020 offset by losses in timeliness and underinsurance. Our work in Annals: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39502038/ #SurgEky #HealthPolicy #MedSky

I'm happy to announce that my book, "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health", is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: open.spotify.com/playlist/5K5...

Question: no matter your profession, how do you center justice in your work? Papaarangi Reid: I remember the intense protectiveness I felt when I became a mother, and I remind myself to feel that for all children, not just mine.