"we spent more than 100 years working at the C.D.C...We served under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations...we did not always agree with our leaders, but they never gave us reason to doubt that they would rely on data-driven insights for our protection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

"In these first few months after arrival, I have become, in many ways, an intern again." Esther Johnston, MD, MPH (@esthermjohnston.bsky.social) reflects on the challenges and opportunities that come with professional change. "Everything Old Is New Again": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

A tribute to colleagues who have been so supportive as I learned the ropes in a new place this year, & to all the learners who juggle the cognitive load of trying to master new systems while bringing their best selves to their patients encounters, each & every day: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

The call for abstracts is now open for the North America Conference to End Race Based Medicine, which will be FREE to attend and held in Detroit October 17-18, 2025. Submissions are encouraged from students, residents, fellows and faculty from all disciplines. #academicsky #medsky bit.ly/NACERM2025

Concerning on so many levels: that peer reviewers are farming out a critical role in ensuring academic integrity to AI (recognizing the broken system of academic publishing that => overloaded peer reviewers) & that this shortcut is so easily subverted. #Academicsky asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

An excellent article by Martin Msukwa and Isaac Ntwiga of @seedglobalhealth.bsky.social summarizing some of the key barriers to recruitment and retention of health care workers in countries with HCW shortages, and needed policy solutions. www.europesays.com/2147801/

The MAHA report, promoted by RFK Jr. as “gold-standard science,” is riddled with bogus citations: ⭐️ 7 studies don’t exist — one author: “The paper cited is not a real paper.” ⭐️ Key conclusions misquoted ⭐️ One study exists only in the report ⭐️ Dozens more have broken links #BlueSky #Medasky #SciSky

In this editorial, a group of family medicine global health practitioners based in South Africa, India, and the United States collectively reflect on the question, “What should lie at the heart of global health partnerships in family medicine?” journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

May's special global health issue of Family Medicine attracted submissions from around the world, reflecting collaborations and partnerships between family physicians and colleagues. Read the editorial from Cindy Haq, MD, and Esther Johnston, MD, MPH: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

Interest in training opportunities and ethical engagement in global health among medical trainees continues to increase. Preparation activities and formal curriculum for trainees traveling for international rotations vary widely across programs: journals.stfm.org/primer/2025/...

9/ This isn't about whether you need a booster. It’s about how vaccine decisions are made—and who gets to make them. Americans deserve public health policy grounded in evidence, transparency, and debate—not declarations from two contrarians with an agenda.

RFK Jr. celebrated on Sunday by taking shirtless selfies and swimming in an E. coli-ridden, sewage-infested creek where swimming, notably, has been banned by the National Park Service, thanks to the whole...poop water issue.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Deeply proud to have served as a guest editor of this special global issue of Family Medicine; & grateful to my colleagues who contributed their writing & research, & served as peer reviewers. May we never stop engaging as a global community in our shared learning. journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.” #defendhighered

Re-introducing ourselves: IHJM was born out of a desire to facilitate national movements, to re-imagine a new medicine that ends racism in clinical algorithms and builds on the work of advocates before us. We envision an interdisciplinary hub - a community, research epicenter, and dialogue space.

"When I finished my PhD in Immunology and Microbiology I started working at CDC NIOSH in Morgantown...to understand diseases that were being seen in coal miners...The type of research that we were doing is not being done anywhere else in the world. And now it’s not being done at all." bit.ly/3YioisS

Calling all family medicine colleagues: the Atai Omorutu Award supports African women doctors, particularly early career physicians, to attend the World Organization of Family Doctors meeting. We kindly ask for your support of this initiative: bit.ly/4hXCFtS #PrimaryCare #FamMed #FMSky #FMRevolution

"a betrayal wrapped in spin" www.salon.com/2025/04/02/t... 📊🩺🛟

I so enjoyed joining two wise family docs to discuss the evolution of global health & the need to honor real assessments by local leaders. One Click at a Time aims to re-envision the design & technology of primary care through discussions w/health care leaders. #FMSky #MedSky bit.ly/423tFx9

We have an open faculty position at the University of Minnesota North Memorial Family Medicine Residency Program! Come work with me :-) umphysicians.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/umpcareers/j... #Family Medicine #FamMed #FMSky #FMRevolution

99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence

A beautiful summary in PLOS Global Health of some key changes needed to engage with a more decolonized lens in global health education. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

"America First does not have to be democracy last. The world needs American leadership. Most importantly, the world needs America to remain a democracy." www.cfr.org/blog/uncle-s...

"The structural dependency on U.S. funding and leadership is a fundamental barrier to achieving a truly global vision for global health." Our new blog for @plosglobalpublichealth.org speakingofmedicine.plos.org/2025/02/14/s...

"Thousands of doctors, nurses, lab technicians, and other health personnel at US-funded programmes have reported job losses" in countries where health care worker shortages are already profound. We should be ashamed of this complete reneging on our commitments. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

Despite court orders, NIH grants have dropped 56% since Inauguration Day, delaying critical research. Federal court hearing today... Great reporting from @kileykoscinski.bsky.social from @wesa.fm, a local @npr.org station #PublicHealth #EpiSky www.wesa.fm/health-scien...

"Emphasizing the popularity of vaccines is not merely a matter of correcting the record. Studies have shown that presenting vaccines as a subject of debate or controversy can unintentionally reinforce vaccine hesitancy by making the issue appear less settled" 📊🛟🩺 #MedSky substack.com/redirect/2b9...

"Regardless of the popularity or powerful interests behind a policy, the responsibility of the profession is to speak out when the science is clear that it will threaten health or safety. Silence is not an option." #MedSky 🧪 🩺📊 🛟🩺 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

“The removal of datasets and guidance from the [CDC and NIH] websites to comply with the President’s recent executive order puts the health and wellbeing of patients at risk and makes it more difficult for physicians to provide quality care“ #Medsky 🩺 www.acponline.org/acp-newsroom...

“We have betrayed the trust of ministries of health & the regulatory agencies in the countries where we were working and of the women who agreed to be in our studies, who were told that they would be taken care of…It’s unethical, it’s dangerous and it’s reckless.” 🩺📊 www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

“Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him….don’t believe him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

"U.S. global health funding totals approximately $12 billion but only represents less than 0.1% of the federal budget." Key facts for advocacy from @kff.org

Let's say it again, louder this time: race does not have a biologic basis. It is a social construct.

How many lies can we debunk in 30 seconds:

"Experts said the sudden stoppage...would set back work on investigating & trying to stop outbreaks of Marburg virus & mpox...It also comes as health authorities...are monitoring bird flu outbreaks among U.S. livestock." Let's be clear: there is *no way* this makes Americans safer. bit.ly/4gcBohv

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

The story behind RFK Jr. in Samoa's measles crisis has never been reported. He wasn't there to spread misinformation about vaccines (though he did). He wanted to study a "natural experiment" of unvaccinated kids. “I can’t imagine anything less ethical or more cruel.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

TL;DR: we are finally seeing forward progress on technological solutions to the problem of racial disparities in pulse oximetry #HealthPolicy #MedSky 🩺📊 www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

"Neither did the government agree to accept assistance from America for the village's development, nor did it do anything on its own. 'The only thing that has changed...is the name of our village' said Yaad Ram Yadav, former sarpanch of Carterpuri." bit.ly/4fT9hDO 🛟📊

"The essence of global health collaborations lies in the recognition that no single entity holds all the answers. Instead, it is through collective effort, mutual respect, and shared vision that impactful and sustainable health improvements can be realized" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

Do you use AI-powered transcription tools in your clinic? Journalist & NYU professor Hilke Schemmann highlights how hallucinations in one commonly used AI program differentially impact interview transcriptions from people of marginalized backgrounds apnews.com/article/ai-a... #medsky #healthpolicy

The system works as designed.

Looking forward to learning how appointing an accused child-sex-trafficker as AG and a suspected Russian asset as DNI will lower the price of eggs

Most people don’t know that slavery still exists. Amendment 13 abolishes slavery except where imprisoned. There should be no exceptions to abolish slavery.

A bright spot in the news you may have missed in the tumult of last week: Rwanda's health system has achieved quite possibly the lowest case fatality rate ever recorded for a Marburg outbreak 🩺📊🛟 #medsky www.npr.org/sections/goa...