@meghannnn
Associate Professor, Dept of Health, Behavior & Society @Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Studying health communication 🩺📺, tobacco control 🚬, cannabis 🍃, misinformation 📊. @upenn @usc alum. I promise I’m still punk.
Promo graphic for episode 889 of Public Health On Call podcast, titled Zyn Nicotine Pouches.
What are Zyn nicotine pouches and how can they impact health?
@meghannnn.bsky.social and @drjthrul.bsky.social explains how they work, how they’re marketed, and what we know—and don’t yet know—about their long-term health effects.
Listen now: podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/889-zyn-nico...
🚨ATTENTION CDC AND ALLIES!🚨
We have power together. To see our strength and build community, we ask that you wear something 💚green💚 to work this WEDNESDAY to show solidarity and readiness to defend public health.
Please spread the word!
#courageiscontagious #wearthecolor #spreadthecolor
Good morning. The dance, whatever that means to you, is worth fighting for.
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, protested in the afternoon and danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for.
NEW: The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep funding frozen at the NIH - a move that some legal scholars say is illegal.
Federal Register notices are blocked, so no grant-review sessions can be scheduled.
All the gritty details here, and a short 🧵:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
While we are all dealing with the Great Destruction — of NIH and US science and the US economy — we have been hearing from NIH people who want to write things for the outside world.
If you are an NIH person that wants to share a blog post with the world anonymously, please let us know.
GO BIRDS!
It is appropriate that my first post is a pic from #NCA2024 with one of my favorite people and kickass researcher @susanaramirez.bsky.social after what is becoming a tradition of delicious cocktails + dinner.