I am so very excited about this new chapter of my life. Looking forward to working alongside talented colleagues to find creatives ways to leverage knowledge for the benefit of Canadians www.dal.ca/news/2025/11...

An update on my column: Parliamentary committee drops most contentious parts of its demand for data on research funding. It now wants aggregated, not disaggregated data. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

If you are a Canadian scientist 🧪 alarmed by the unfair targeting of academics working on research related to EDI in the US ➡️ Turn your attention to our own House of Commons' Standing Committee on Science and Research and consider signing this open letter: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you wash your hands, why does it matter if I wash mine?

10th Circuit rejects assortment of legal theories challenging workplace vaccine mandates (not religion - due process and equal protection). www.denvergazette.com/2025/10/23/1... via @denvergazette.com

AMA Journal of Ethics will cease publication at the end of this year. journalofethics.ama-assn.org/home

"Why should some have to bear the costs of others' freedom?"

We are hiring. #bioethics @munbioethics.bsky.social

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have. The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"Staff with the CDC’s institutional review board, which reviews the design of studies, and the ethics office, which oversees all conflicts and interests for CDC leaders and advisory committee members, were also let go." 👀👀👀 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

"A key aspect of the way we lived with each other before these self-styled epochal developments [post-2020] involved exactly the “social shame and cultural pressure” that Klein and other influential voices now come to condemn" tapping the 'bring back shame' sign www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

"These findings suggest that COVID-19 may have created a new year-round baseline for work absences that is similar to influenza season conditions before the pandemic" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

DEI counters prejudice and discrimination that otherwise bias evaluations of merit. DEI *is* a merit principle.

It should be easy to commit to collecting speed data for one year following the ban, compare with historicals, and remove the ban if speeds were found to have increased. Also, keep track of lost revenue. A pilot ban, if you will. (Not that we really need more evidence.)

Sheer hypocrisy from Kennedy as he derails UN declaration on non communicable chronic diseases eg diabetes , lung disease, autoimmunity instead making accusations about abortion and gender that have nothing to do with declaration.

Are red light cameras next? Stop-arm cameras on school buses? License plate readers? Motion detectors? Laser tripwires in museums???

@who.int emphasizes that there is currently no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link between #autism and use of acetaminophen (also known as paracetamol) during pregnancy. 1/3

Wakefield taking a victory lap.

Trump’s attack on vaccines yesterday — delivered from the White House — “was the most dangerously irresponsible press conference in the realm of public health in American history” @pauloffit.bsky.social told us. More on Trump’s false claims with @lenasun.bsky.social

Covid vaccines protect children from severe disease. Here is the evidence www.statnews.com/2025/09/19/c... via @statnews.com "Over & over again, Covid-19 has shown it can cause severe disease in children, disease that is preventable by a safe and effective vaccine." #VaccinesWork

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

Senate hearing today, Dr. Monarez testified: Kennedy directed her to commit to approving every recommendation "regardless of the scientific evidence" and also directed her to "dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy, w/o cause" "He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign"

FL Governor DeSantis is planning to eliminate all vaccine mandates in the state. He says this is the result of the 'integration of MAHA principles', which include 'informed consent'. But, as I've recently argued, vaccine mandates are compatible with informed consent. jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

"The incident highlights the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on critical infrastructure, with the virus continuing to cause staffing shortages across essential services." September 12, 2025 7news.com.au/news/covid-o...

The summer (and fall) of our COVID discontent. As eager as we are to forget, #COVID19 is still with us, and we need to mitigate our risk, by @picardonhealth.bsky.social www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti... via @theglobeandmail.com

Canadian COVID Forecast Aug 30 - Sep 12 2025 CANADA High [No change] About 1 in 65 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected. Compared to lowest point of pandemic in Canada: -Infections ~7.2 higher -Long COVID ~7.7 higher -Hospitalizations ~10.7 higher -Deaths ~10.9 higher

Veering from CDC, ACOG recommends maternal vaccination against COVID-19 All pregnant women, women trying to become pregnant, and those nursing are encouraged to get an updated COVID-19 vaccine. www.cidrap.umn.edu/c...

You’re not dropping a single, asshole. If you’re actually knew anything, it would be criminal not to reveal it now. But of course, this is a bullshit publicity stunt.

Necessary Conditions for the Future Consideration of Vaccine Certificates with Cécile Bensimon and Kumanan WIlson www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

It was never about autonomy, choice, or freedom. They're happy to remove this choice. They're happy to interfere with your freedom. It is and always has been anti-vaccine activism.

It was never about autonomy, choice, or freedom. They're happy to remove this choice. They're happy to interfere with your freedom. It is and always has been anti-vaccine activism.

Patently inequitable.

American Academy of Pediatrics has released our annual update to our immunization recommendations to best help children and adolescents build immunity and stay healthy. Read our full policy statement to learn about AAP's updated immunization schedule. www.aap.org/en/news-room...

It’s not lost on me that the people celebrating masked agents enforcing curfews and checkpoints were the same people losing their shit when they were asked to stay home and wear a mask for their own safety

They don't care, and for the same reason they are opposed to vaccines. They feel no responsibility for how their actions affect others.

Debate over whether to make respirator use in health care settings universal should begin by eliciting responses to the following question: If universal respirator use among health care workers could prevent the death of one patient/year, would you consider such a policy/practice 'worth' it? 🧵

Imagine responding to a proposed *update* on standards with the retort: "but this is out of alignment with the standards!"

Hidden in the lungs of some breast cancer survivors are tumour cells that can remain dormant for decades — until they one day trigger a relapse go.nature.com/41iIdJR

Ah yes, the pandemic's endemic phase🤨 "Findings suggest the need for targeted follow-up in patients with severe COVID-19, particularly those requiring intensive care, to manage potential new-onset diseases and guide resource allocation in the pandemic’s endemic phase." www.nature.com/articles/s41...

USA rejects amendments to the WHO's International Health Regulations a day before the rejection/reservation deadline #IHR #PPPR www.hhs.gov/press-room/s...

My university (@westernu.ca) is offering up to $160,000 CAD in funding to support doctoral students impacted by recent changes in higher ed in the US. And I'm keen on supervising students who may be interested (and who conduct research in public health ethics). DM me. grad.uwo.ca/finances/wes...

👀 (always read Max Smith!) #PHEthx #PublicHealthEthics #IDEthics #VaccineEthics

A must read on vaccine mandates, for those interested in the topic, and whether they equate to coercion: jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

How are "mandatory" medical interventions like mandatory vaccination reconciled with ethical and legal requirements that informed consent be given "voluntarily"? New open access article in the Journal of Medical Ethics: jme.bmj.com/content/earl...

Canadian COVID Forecast: Jun 28-Jul 11, 2025 SEVERE: none VERY HIGH: none HIGH: ON MODERATE: CAN, AB, BC, MB, NB, NL, North, NS, PEI, QC, SK About 1 in 120 people in Canada are CURRENTLY infected.

"This country has lost the most basic of all freedoms: the freedom that comes from being healthy." - RFK You know what protects and promotes people's health? Public health. Access to health care/health insurance. Health research. The very things the Trump administration is gutting.

At this juncture, saying science ought to be bipartisan/nonpartisan or apolitical is, in fact, adopting a political position. And that political position is in support of maintaining and reproducing the status quo, which at the moment is a fascist destruction of science.

Vinay Prasad overrode the recommendations of a panel of scientists who said that 2025-2026 COVID19 vaccines should be recommended for everyone over the age of 12 years. COVID19 remains a serious public health threat. He will get people killed. He doesn’t care. His ego wins, always.

Recent suspensions & reductions in official development assistance for health have impacted responses to HIV, hepatitis, STIs, and other communicable diseases. See pre-publication draft of @who.int guidance to sustain priority services in this changing funding landscape: www.who.int/activities/s...

Robert F Kennedy Jr is not a vaccine skeptic. Reporters and editors who’ve decided it’s somehow more fair to call him one instead of the anti-vaccine activist and lawyer he is should stop mischaracterizing him so… in the pursuit of accuracy.