I had the pleasure of participating in a fantastic workshop on #Informality, Sustainable Livelihoods & #UHC in January sponsored by @gdp-center.bsky.social in Nairobi, led by @bostonu.bsky.social colleagues Lawrence Were & Solomon Owusu with experts from around the region www.bu.edu/gdp/2026/03/...

Just a month left to submit your abstracts to the Social Science & Medicine Call for Abstracts for the Special Issue on Polarization and Health Policy in Global Context, edited by @kenworthy.bsky.social & me. Abstracts due April 30. For more information visit www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

The latest ep of @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social from @josephharrisbu.bsky.social includes conversations with @katharinakrause.bsky.social & Dr. Brooke Bocast on their respective research, spanning very different forms of health research. spr.ly/63325B6mS1H

Opportunity knocks here in Boston northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...

Check out our latest on the #GlobalHealth #Politics #Podcast w @katharinakrause.bsky.social & Brooke Bocast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s... @globalhealthberlin.bsky.social @globalhealthde.bsky.social @wzb.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social @ethnography911.bsky.social @emendenhall.bsky.social

Thanks to my friend @drichardsonsoc.bsky.social, I'll be doing a virtual book talk next Wednesday with Indiana University Bloomington. Check out the registration link below!

A new @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social episode drops Monday! For now, check out our convo w @repoyedc.bsky.social. A #pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as #ShadowRepresentative to #Congress for #DC. He talks #publichealth & DC #statehood as a candidate for DC Council podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...

In solidarity with my colleagues at BU, I've put up a Pride flag in my office window at Northeastern, facing Leon Street. Trans rights are human rights.

Today is #WorldTBDay Yes! We can end TB! In a recent @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social ep, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social spoke to John Green, author of Everything Is Tuberculosis, about this disease for which we have a cure, but still kills over a million people a year. spr.ly/63326B6zoJa

World TB Day is a great time to pick up @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social new book "Everything is Tuberculosis"! My review of his book in @thelancet.com 👇🏽 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Federal court finds Columbia University may have acted as government’s instrument to suppress Palestinian advocacy in violation of the First Amendment. YES THEY DID I SAW IT www.cair-ny.org/news/3/19/26...

"Universal health coverage is not merely a technical goal to be achieved; it is primarily a moral imperative for societies that wish to call themselves just." —Pope Leo XIV

Alt text of slide: 3. Signals of support help patients come out to providers "I was apprehensive to tell doctors [about my sexual orientation] because I don't know how they could react. Unless it's clear, like they have a rainbow flag in their office or something like that." - Gay, male adolescent

A slide from 2018 Boston University presentation on how social environments shape LGBTQIA+ health — and how we can help populationhealthexchange.org/web-policy-i...

A large body of research shows that institutional policies & practices shape LGBTQIA+ health I am really sorry to see this institutional practice & I am heartened so many faculty members are persisting in supporting our LGBTQIA+ community even as they may face personal risk

Millions of Americans are going uninsured following the expiration of ACA subsidies - The Wall Street Journal

New open access book! Case Studies in Global Health: Illuminating Theory and Practice www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

🦠 Six years after WHO declared #COVID19 a global emergency, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social of @bostonu.bsky.social draws upon his research to explain what the pandemic revealed about U.S. public health & international cooperation in our latest No Jargon episode. 🎧 Listen: scholars.org/podcast/what...

Trump has gutted health care and food assistance while funneling billions into a war machine that he’s empowered to kill civilians abroad with no accountability. The cruelty never ends. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-defense-department-iran-hegseth-civilian-casualties

1 week of war = 11 billion $ Next time we hear that there's no money for health, education, science, humanitarian aid, we remember this

Have you checked out our conversation w/ @repoyedc.bsky.social on the @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social yet? A #pharmacist, Dr. Owolewa serves as the #ShadowRepresentative to #Congress for the nation's #capital. He talks #publichealth & D.C. #statehood as a candidate for D.C. Council lnkd.in/gJmasNNy

“The purpose [of Impact Counter] was to try to get these numbers in the hands of people that could advocate for a waiver or for stopping the pause and advocacy to make sure that this didn’t happen,” @brookeenichols.bsky.social tells @wgbh.org one year after USAID cuts. spr.ly/63321B6EDh3

Things heard in our house this morning: “Don’t parkour on the table near my coffee!”

What the fuck is a champagne supernova? And why does someone have to be caught beneath a landslide for it to manifest? This makes about as much sense as the bible.

RFK Jr’s measles outbreak in South Carolina, our neighboring state, has spread to NC It’s his dream of course—all part of his extreme anti-vaxx, anti-science, conspiracy theorist, eugenicist plans for the US—but it’s our nightmare wlos.com/news/local/m...

People are making fun of this but at the end they open mouth kiss and it's actually kind of beautiful. They're clearly doing hand stuff too but they don't show it.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

Excited to be interviewed abt the state of #globalhealth on #NoJargon podcast! From #COVID to @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, we talked about it all! @busph.bsky.social @buceid.bsky.social @bucas.bsky.social @gdp-center.bsky.social @bostonglobe.com @dadakim.bsky.social @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social

LINDSEY GRAHAM: Our goal is to make sure Iran cannot become again the largest state sponsor of terrorism. WELKER: Does the the president have a plan to guarantee that happens? GRAHAM: No. It's not his job.

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BREAKING: The United States is at war in the Middle East again following U.S./Israeli strikes in Iran. Trump confirms that American service members may die in this war. Congress did not approve the strikes—members from both parties are demanding a vote to reign in Trump’s power. The latest:

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

It's not everyday that you get to talk with one of America's most promising new political voices. Listen to my chat with @repoyedc.bsky.social as he shares his experience as the son of immigrants, a pharmacist at a time when research funding for new drugs been slashed & as candidate for DC Council

$300-600 for nosebleed tickets to some concerts at TD Garden is just insane

Here is my opening statement to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

"The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm" @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Closing our borders to students who want to come here to learn will not make America great. American universities already face a demographic cliff. These policies and the endowment tax will destroy US universities and US prestige globally www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Turns out there’s an economic cost to everyone hating us.

FDA Chief Makary just said that most drugs should be sold over the counter and not require a prescription, unless it’s “unsafe, you need laboratory tests to monitor…or if it could be used for some nefarious purpose or it's addictive”. Bacteria celebrate as antibiotic resistance enters the chat.

Have you given @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social a listen? Our latest episode with @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social of #FaultinourStars & #PaperTowns fame is breaking download records! Listen to him talk about his new book on #publichealth #globalhealth #TB #HIV globalhealthpoliticspodcast.buzzsprout.com

Tomorrow at 6 pm, join members of @unitedfacultyfl.bsky.social and former @asanews.bsky.social presidents Ruth Milkman and Aldon Morris for a discussion of Florida's attempt to create and impose censored sociology textbooks on faculty across the state. Registration link below.

Compared with respiratory or enteric infections, STIs are less likely to be detected in real time because many infections are asymptomatic or have longer incubation periods. Thus cases are more likely to be diagnosed later, limiting timely attribution to a specific gathering.

Just in time for #ValentinesDay: Wondering how that on-again/off-again relationship affects your mental health? Sarah Halpern-Meekin & @kristinturney.bsky.social explore: bit.ly/3xjM7D1 @uwmadison.bsky.social @ucirvine.bsky.social @asamedsoc.bsky.social @asa-family.bsky.social

The EPA will stop regulating greenhouse gases, setting up a legal fight - NPR

It’s hard to recall a regulator who has done as much damage to medical innovation in as little time as Vinay Prasad” www.wsj.com/opinion/vina...

In a new article for 𝘙𝘢𝘤𝘦 & 𝘊𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘴, Marcel Paret & I turn to apartheid South Africa to think strategically about how to confront racial authoritarianism in the US today. This isn’t analogy for its own sake, but what Stuart Hall calls “delicately disinterring” lessons and transplanting them with care.

Brilliant analysis of "politics of cruelty" and why global health is such a soft and easy target www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....