"the most disastrous year for US public health policy" The US faces a critical public health crossroads as recent policy shifts threaten decades of progress. What are the implications for future health security and scientific integrity? Our Editorial: spkl.io/63326AcVQy

Essential Lancet editorial on how Trump, RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya and the rest of the MAHA/MAGA/Great Barrington Declaration crew are tearing apart US healthcare www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

2025: an annus horribilis for health in the USA - The Lancet www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Government cash transfer programmes can significantly improve health outcomes for women and children in low- and middle-income countries, study finds. Explore the research ▶️ spkl.io/63324AgSyy

I am so sorry that this has happened to Carl Dieffenbach.

As someone who has worked in HIV for 35+ years, I can tell you Carl is a consummate scientific leader. We’ve been lucky to have him at head of DAIDS. The only thing that wins here is the virus.

About that exclusive, "closed-to-press" MAHA summit last week with RFK and JD Vance: I got in. Here's what I saw. 🧵 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let’s go! Make a pledge, USG and other donor governments, that the world can be proud of. Save our existing investments and continue to accelerate progress against HIV,TB and malaria. #wewillnotgoback #globalfund

The victims.👇👇👇Thank you #jenniferwiener @nytimes.com Endless Gossipy Chatter About Epstein. One Glaring Omission. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/o...

Continued dismantling of science and public health in the US. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

There is an intermediate solution. We go back down the steps to the comedy clubs, as #LennyBruce did. Say whatever you want #JimmyKimmel and comedians everywhere. Publish your stand-up recordings on alternative media. Arrests may come, but protesters will support you. There is no alternative.

‘Nuff said. #ACIP

#LIGO experiment is the best of what it means to be human. We must continue to understand the universe and the awesome forces that control our destiny. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/s...

THIS NEEDS TO BE READ NOW. I completely missed this very important piece in @nejm.org in 2024 explaining from some of my favorite vaccine and vaccine safety experts what is needed to improve safety systems and public trust. www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/...

Remarkable progress has been made in the response against HIV. However, this progress is now at risk of destabilisation. A new letter introduces the Kigali Call to Action, offering a roadmap for revitalising the global response against HIV: tinyurl.com/2sxwja37

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The Kigali Call to Action #IAS2025 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Horrifyingly predictable when #USAID funding was cut. www.independent.co.uk/world/aid-fo...

The US Agency for International Development (#USAID) funding has had a crucial role in improving global health. A new study estimates that USAID programs have saved nearly 92 million lives over past 20 years. Explore the research ▶️ tinyurl.com/2w2nkvv3

marco rubio announces that usaid, which began under president kennedy in 1961, has officially ceased operations foreign assistance now to be run by state dept lancet medical journal projecting 14 million more deaths in next 5 years with aid restrictions (from world's most vulnerable populations)

Why i do what i do @TheLancet www.cnn.com/2025/07/01/p...

Regulators Approve a Twice-Yearly Shot to Prevent H.I.V. Infection www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/h...

Dear All- amazing job opp! @thelancet.com Senior Editor in the NYC office. relx.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Elsevi...

What a dictator would say.

SCOOP: The CDC is planning to move information on cases of diseases like measles and polio to a data system managed by Palantir, raising concerns about patient privacy. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/h...

On the home page of the MAHA Institute, you can read its now infamous, utterly kooky, very dangerous “MAHA Report,” authored by Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, RFK Jr, Linda McMahon, Stephen Miller, & others 😬 Only the best people are leading MAHA—antisemites, anti-vaxxers, germ theory deniers 😨

2nd line playing at the ceremony for these returned souls today. Leipzig University did the right thing. I hope others follow. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

"If the proposal is enacted, Americans today and tomorrow will be sicker, poorer, and die younger” an $18 Billion cut Only 3 NIH Institutes will remain in place, and even they will have their funds markedly reduced www.statnews.com/2025/05/30/n...

Ligo is one of the best examples of what it means to be human too. 😔

👇 www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Hooray and phew #EIS #diseasedetective www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/cdc...

#Solidarność #Solidarity #Solidarité #Solidaridad www.npr.org/sections/sho... @thelancet.bsky.social @nejm.org @jama.com @apha.org

Excellent. COPEs statement on external influence on editorial decisions. All authors should read this too. May 1st 2025. publicationethics.org/news-opinion...

Excellent. Commitments and call to action from several journal editors in Clincial Inf Dis academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

🔥👏 Great to see the scientific community standing firm against this admin’s lunacy. The Lancet, one of the world’s top medical journals, calls for RFK Jr. to resign for supporting harmful budget cuts to NIH, CDC, and FDA, and promoting anti-science views. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

United we stand. Divided we fall.

Here is a list of critical federal health programs for families that they want to cut. Without these programs families will have fewer resources to care for loved ones, young and old. Those on the edge will fall into poverty. Call your reps.

“Funding by the CDC for two monthly peer-reviewed journals, Emerging Infectious Diseases and Preventing Chronic Disease, will be cut.” EID has published novel, important work that brings #IDSky issues to light. Its loss will hurt.

This way of thinking- be universities and not businesses really appeals. Perhaps scientific publishing should consider the same? This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, If They Dare #mgessen www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

🤷🏽 At a congressional hearing on #PEPFAR, Mark Dybul, former US HIV/AIDS Ambassador, just asked for a reduction in funding for PEPFAR. Bold strategy. 💰He also recommended closer collaboration with the GFATM and made an economic argument for why PEPFAR is good for US business.

The results are in! @thelancet.bsky.social

The brilliant #SariReisner talking to #thelancethiv about his latest study in the journal and its relevance to the importance of gender-affirming hormone therapy in advance of #internationaldayoftransgendervisibility Please listen and share. @thelancet.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1062154/epis...

The CDC has been captured. CDC statement on measles vaccination: “The decision to vaccinate is a personal one. People should consult with their healthcare provider to understand their options to get a vaccine and should be informed about the potential risks and benefits associated with vaccines.”

A little known federal official was nominated today to serve as #CDC director. Susan Monarez is not an MD, has a sparse publication record & no state public health experience. She has been serving as CDC's acting director since the administration change. www.statnews.com/2025/03/24/s...