BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

New podcast just dropped with our own @jonshaffer.bsky.social talking about public health organizing. You can check it out here!

QN: Australia’s #healthworkforce is under strain: long waits, burnout, gaps in rural care. Calls for a national plan & national body keep resurfacing — but why? theconversation.com/australia-ha...

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Autocracies often follow a common playbook, built around the “3 Ps”: populism, polarization, and post-truth This handbook highlights both historic and contemporary measures aimed at attacking scholars, their institutional environments, and their scholarship zenodo.org/records/1569...

Great new analysis just out in #HPP 👉#Power dynamics and intersectoral collaboration for health in low- and middle-income countries: a realist review academic.oup.com/heapol/artic... #PraveenkumarAivalli @dadasara.bsky.social #BrynneGilmore @daktre.bsky.social @aoifedb.bsky.social

RFK Jr.‘s extreme anti-vax views — and his related conflicts of interest — were a huge problem during his confirmation process. So he promised not to change the vaccine advisory panel. Today, he fired every single expert on that panel. It's a public health disaster.

Of course, journalists in LA should not be targeted by police with rubber bullets. But let's not ignore the real issue of journalist safety

Legal action by a Peruvian farmer has signalled a shift in the global conversation.

Interested in #health #HRH #healthworkforce policy in Australia and/or Asia Pacific? Two #fullyfunded #PhD Scholarships available @jcuofficial.bsky.social working a NHRMC-funded program of research. See details attached. Please share widely - applications due 30 June.

The #globalHIV response is at a cross-roads and African leaders are showing the way. Sharing outputs from a convening of 11 countries ✅ Lancet HIV Viewpoint on sustainability & health systems ✅ Policy Brief endorsed by 60+ leaders ✅ Press release w. recommendations Read more: shorturl.at/vFANi

"A message from Coca-Cola" Hilarious

A growing group of pioneer governments are setting out how we can secure our common future by remaking international cooperation anew. This is how:

Gaza rescue teams and medics have said Israeli airstrikes killed at least 53 people, as the military issued fresh evacuation orders ahead of a planned attack

The UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls renewables the “economic opportunity of the century” & our “pathway out of climate hell.” Meanwhile, Australia approved the massively polluting Barossa Gas project. Our research shows 71% of Aussies back 100% renewables, as is reality in the ACT.

Exploring supportive roles for global north investigators in global health research Will Global North universities change their incentive & promotion structures in academia to recognize allyship work? journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

🗓️ Mark your calendars! #WHA78 is coming & this year again, join us & UN Foundation on May 18 for our annual #WHA #OpenBriefing at @gvagrad.bsky.social & online, where we will discuss "Critical Perspectives on Multilateralism in Global Health in 2025". Details & registration 👉 bit.ly/wha78-briefing

Anyone looking for a recording of my Earth Day conversation about Climate Activism at @coveringclimatenow.org with @amywestervelt.bsky.social John Paul Mejia and @theresariley.bsky.social, here you go: youtu.be/gTA3YcNgrNo

Invitation to a public @ox.ac.uk guest lecture on Politics and Global Health: The Need for a New, Resilient Architecture Delivered by Mitchell Warren, director of AVAC. Wednesday 30th April 2025, 15:30 - 16:30 UK time. More information and sign-up link here: www.conted.ox.ac.uk/events/view/...

This. This is how authoritarianism works. Not hyperbolic, just that I did a PhD in comparative politics and it’s this.

IT'S WORLD HEALTH WORKER WEEK. Investments in health workers deliver returns — could contribute US$12 trillion to global GDP in 2040. It's time to protect, value, and invest in health workers — our most valuable health resource. #WHWWeek #healthworkerssavelives

I am very happy to see that this edited volume on the #anthropology of #management is out. Given that management is one of the defining #governance ideas of our time, this should be fun to read & teach with. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

Times are going to get hard — harder — for public health departments. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

“Instead of current crisis forcing (us) 2 confront real risks of aid dependency & consider future w. diminished aid dependency, tendency has been to huddle around proverbial camp-fires & share narratives of catastrophe…to justify maintaining status-quo.” www.africanistperspective.com/p/how-reflex...

Lockdowns are terrible. So are deadly pandemics. @chrischirp.bsky.social tells it straight. christinapagel.substack.com/p/we-are-lea...

New #OpenAccess book alert! 📚✨ “Collections as Relations: Contestations of Belonging, Cultural Heritage, and Knowledge Infrastructures” edited by @hdilger.bsky.social, Barbara Göbel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schütze & Alexis von Poser. 👉 www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi... #Antrhopology

**CALL4 PAPERS – HEALTH POLICY AND PLANNING** 🌟Changing Health Systems: Advancing Justice and Sustainability through Research, Policy and Practice 👉 Submissions due: 23 May Eds: #KabirSheikh @globalstopp.bsky.social @daktre.bsky.social #EleanorWhyle #NehaBatura academic.oup.com/heapol/pages...

It's time to reimagine a health system that works for everyone and prioritizes primary care and prevention of disease and health generation. The role of aid should be reexamined- a catalyst, an aid to a functional system, not the mainstay of that system

If you're in Melbourne, Australia. Please join us for a book chat about "The Foreign Gaze" — in conversation with Dr Selina Namchee Lo. Host: Australian Global Health Alliance Reg: eventbrite.com.au/e/alliance-c... 📖Bring your copy to get it signed! Limited copies will be available at the event.

#HPSR people - new CALL FOR PAPERS – Health Policy and Planning (HPP) special issue: Changing Health Systems: Advancing Justice and Sustainability through Research, Policy and Practice healthsystemsglobal.org/news/call-fo...

#HPSR people - new CALL FOR PAPERS – Health Policy and Planning (HPP) special issue: Changing Health Systems: Advancing Justice and Sustainability through Research, Policy and Practice healthsystemsglobal.org/news/call-fo...

As countries scramble for minerals, the seabed beckons. Will mining it be a disaster? – visual explainer

#Culturalsafety / #antiracism programming for #healthsystems *everywhere* must address these racism-enabling…narratives: i) resource allocation, ii) responsibility, iii) (Māori) blaming, iv) too hard, and v) we tried.

Gas company tax is paying for the wages of nurses? Yeah. Nah. Over the past decade, nurses paid more tax than oil & gas companies Gas companies are taking the piss. #OffTheCharts @mattgrudnoff.bsky.social @markogge.bsky.social australiainstitute.org.au/post/nurses-...

This piece explains in a nutshell the staggering failure of capitalism to address the climate crisis. “No capitalist,” Marx wrote, “ever voluntarily introduces a new method of production… so long as it reduces the rate of profit.” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No one should be required pay a cent to get essential medical care, let along have to take out loans or file for bankruptcy (as do over 500k US residents every year), in one of the wealthiest nations in the world. But instead of Medicare for All, we get just more and more deadly health capitalism.

Medical journals should move away from talking about “non-pharmaceutical interventions” (NPIs) & use the term “public health and social measures” www.bmj.com/content/388/... via @bmj.com

Big gas is getting more than 70% of WA's gas for free. We put these billboards up in the middle of Perth to let everyone know. Please share! #auspol

Want to be a teaching associate on the exciting new masters on Existential risk based in Cambridge? www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50250/

#academicsky #philsci British Academy looking for clever stuff

…the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists… www.huffpost.com/entry/cdc-wh... # via @HuffPostPol

VACANCY- Consortium Project Manager @sophuwc.bsky.social is seeking to hire a Manager to oversee delivery of outputs for a health systems research consortium: Realizing full potential of PHC workforce: Addressing gendered workplace violence. Closing date: March 4 soph.uwc.ac.za/news/consort...

The bottom 90% have got just 7% of economic growth from 2009 to 2019. The top 10% got 93%. Our research shows inequality has been supercharged in the last 20 years, and it will only get worse unless we fix it. A super profits tax is a good start, and cracking down on tax rorts. #auspol

DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

Senior doctor urges colleagues to make addressing poverty an election issue – In which Dr Louis Peachey draws upon the work of German physician & politician Dr Rudolf Virchow www.croakey.org/senior-docto... #SDOH #AusPol

Breaking it, then profiting off the *fix* The same way they profit off of education privatization… health care… etc… They count on you not realizing it. You are their piggy bank.

This week @drhelenkara.bsky.social and I have been doing the final review of chapters for our new book: Using Documents In Research. It's due to be published in January 2026, and has 12 amazing chapters with case studies of how documents can be used.

We're seeking applications for a tax justice podcast for audiences in India and Pakistan, application closing date Sunday 16 March, please share widely bsky.app/profile/taxj...

Extreme heat can age you as fast as a smoking habit #Climate