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NYU Prof of Global Public Health, retired WHO/UNICEF; believes in Science, Social Justice and Civility. Opinions are my own. Tweets & retweets are meant to stimulate critical thinking and discussion.

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How the Iran conflict could disrupt the world’s oil supply Shipping in the world’s most crucial oil chokepoint has nearly ground to a halt after at least four tankers were targeted in Iran’s retaliation to US and Israeli strikes on Saturday.

Surely, Trump's desire to promote the USA's Oil and Gas industries had absolutely nothing to do with the decision to launch this war.......

www.gzeromedia.com/how-the-iran...

02.03.2026 18:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Upholding the Principles of Development Effectiveness for Health System Strengthening in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)—Why It Is Important Now More than Ever The Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR) of the World Health Organisation (WHO) consists of 22 countries and territories which are exposed to high levels of natural and man-made emergencies, and which ...

Delighted that our most recent paper has been published:

Upholding the Principles of Development Effectiveness for Health System Strengthening in the Eastern Mediterranean Region (EMR)—Why It Is Important Now More than Ever!

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

16.02.2026 21:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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WHO's Science in 5 - Air pollution damages young brains - 2 July 2025
WHO's Science in 5 - Air pollution damages young brains - 2 July 2025 YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO's Science in 5 - Air pollution damages young brains
youtu.be/qKy1X6nijhk?...

18.01.2026 14:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
HRH2030 Program | PEPFAR Rapid Site-Level Health Workforce Assessment Tool & Database

Access is blocked to USAID-PEPFAR's "Rapid Site-Level Health Workforce Assessment Tool" and its accompanying "Database". It used to be available from hrh2030program.org/pepfar_tool/

Would anyone have a copy of the tool & database, that they could share for use with my MPH students? #publicHealth

17.01.2026 14:10 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Israël, Yémen, Guatemala, Timor oriental… Six stratégies utilisées par les États-Unis pour se distancier des atrocités commises par ceux qu’ils soutiennent Avant Israël à Gaza, les responsables américains ont, au fil de l’histoire, eu recours à diverses stratégies rhétoriques pour se dédouaner des atrocités commises par les dirigeants et pays qu’ils ont ...

Israël, Yémen, Guatemala, Timor oriental… Six stratégies utilisées par les États-Unis pour se distancier des atrocités commises par ceux qu’ils soutiennent
theconversation.com/israel-yemen...

30.11.2025 16:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Technology initially promised to solve real problems. As too many competing "solutions" emerged, they invented problems to address. Eventually, they realized locking users into proprietary ecosystems & generating constant demand for IT support over poorly designed systems would sustain profits.

21.11.2025 15:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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2025 Year End Donation Campaign! Give the Gift of a Bike! Support Free Bikes 4 Kidz Atlanta

Please consider donating to a charity this year, in place of gift-giving.

Here is one wonderful organization that provides bikes for children.

Please consider finding an organization to give to instead of buying gifts, if possible. Good for the soul and the environment!
givebutter.com/6b4Tyu

21.11.2025 11:18 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don’t know who needs to hear this but the CDC is being eviscerated right now. America is not going to have any kind of outbreak response capacity after tonight. Americans’ health data is no longer secure. Say goodbye to federal public health in any capacity. It’s a disaster. We won’t recover.

11.10.2025 03:05 👍 13849 🔁 6130 💬 507 📌 393
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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:

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Student initiatives powerful in sustaining fight against AMR When most Usmanu Danfodiyo University students had left Sokoto for their home states during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, Zakariya’u Dauda battled wit...

Helping students get involved with real publci heath challenges is both a great learning tool, and a good way to encourage evidence-based citizen science.

www.universityworldnews.com/post.php?sto...

11.10.2025 07:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Just read the piece on the forthcoming series UNDIVIDED—so looking forward to seeing how this project unfolds in full

therevealer.org/exploring-re...

07.10.2025 13:49 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

The attacks on progressive priests and pastors seems to be increasing, and intentional.

08.10.2025 13:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax

This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.

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This Little-Known Appeal Could Force Your Insurer to Pay for Lifesaving Care. Here’s How to File It. When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org/article/heal...

08.10.2025 13:32 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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These leading dental experts say you're probably brushing your teeth wrong As more places in the U.S. look to ban fluoride in drinking water, it's more important than ever to know the best ways to care for your teeth and gums.

These leading dental experts want to help you brush your teeth the right way www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... via @nbcnews

26.08.2025 16:00 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Divorce attorneys are noticing a familiar complaint from married women Therapists and divorce lawyers say weaponized incompetence is reshaping modern marriages between men and women — and men need to learn to catch up.

"weaponized incompetence": driving women out of their inequitable realtionships

www.businessinsider.com/weaponized-i...

19.08.2025 18:28 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
EP166 Courtrooms to Classrooms: The Intersection of Law and Public Health with Jean Bae
EP166 Courtrooms to Classrooms: The Intersection of Law and Public Health with Jean Bae YouTube video by NYU School of Global Public Health

Dr Jean Bae from NYU's School of Global Public Health talks abut "The Intersection of Law and Public Health"

youtu.be/G1CNvwmdqcQ?...

18.08.2025 16:12 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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"If the FDA says raw milk is now legal and the CDC comes through and says it advises drinking raw milk, that's a recipe for mass infection," said Angela Rasmussen, a virologist and co-editor-in-chief of the medical journal Vaccine and an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University in New York."

17.08.2025 18:48 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

"Pragmatic Progressive" is a label I willingly embrace

14.08.2025 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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RFK Jr. Is Making A Drastic Move On Vaccine Development — And It Could Endanger Us All Doctors and scientists who spoke to HuffPost are worried for a multitude of reasons and want you to know that this will impact your health.

"These funding cuts will make the US — and the world — more vulnerable to disease outbreaks and less able to treat chronic illnesses.

Just imagine the countless lives that we could save if we funded science and made sure this technology was continued to be supported."

My comments in @huffpost.com

14.08.2025 15:48 👍 351 🔁 132 💬 13 📌 9

Democrats voted unanimously to ban gerrymandering.
MAGAs voted unanimously to allow gerrymandering.

Democrats voted unanimously for the Voting Rights Act.
MAGAs voted unanimously against the Voting Rights Act.

If MAGAs could win elections on ideas they wouldn't be banning fair elections altogether

13.08.2025 19:54 👍 446 🔁 125 💬 11 📌 1

The website tracking the Trump administration's authoritarian-like actions is here:
www.trumpactiontracker.info?

and a post explaining the website is here
christinapagel.substack.com/p/introducin...

21.07.2025 20:27 👍 97 🔁 61 💬 4 📌 3
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Tickets now available for the Dublin launch event accompanying the release of For and Against a United Ireland with @fotoole.bsky.social. Despite it being in the National Concert Hall, I promise not to sing.
🎟️Book tickets: www.nch.ie/all-events-l...
📙 Pre-order the book: shop.ria.ie/products/for...

03.07.2025 13:58 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
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We have to reset our priorities from top to bottom.

21.07.2025 20:08 👍 3454 🔁 924 💬 98 📌 38
Excess firearm deaths among
children between 2011 and 2023
States with the most permissive laws: 6,029
States with permissive laws: 1,424
States with strict laws: -55
Graph shows Mortality Difference in Observed vs Expected Deaths. States that enacted permissive and the most permissive gun laws after the McDonald v Chicago U.S. Supreme Court decision says the 2nd Amendment applies to state and local governments went up. States that kept strict gun laws stayed steady. Source: Faust. The Effect of Firearm Laws on Pediatric Mortality in the US. JAMA Pediatr. Published June 09, 2025. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.1363
Yale School of Public Health

Excess firearm deaths among children between 2011 and 2023 States with the most permissive laws: 6,029 States with permissive laws: 1,424 States with strict laws: -55 Graph shows Mortality Difference in Observed vs Expected Deaths. States that enacted permissive and the most permissive gun laws after the McDonald v Chicago U.S. Supreme Court decision says the 2nd Amendment applies to state and local governments went up. States that kept strict gun laws stayed steady. Source: Faust. The Effect of Firearm Laws on Pediatric Mortality in the US. JAMA Pediatr. Published June 09, 2025. doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2025.1363 Yale School of Public Health

In 2010, the Supreme Court decided the Second Amendment applies to state and local governments, allowing states to enact more permissive gun laws.

Since then, there have been 6,000+ excess firearm deaths among children in states with the most permissive gun laws, according to a new study.

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21.07.2025 20:16 👍 151 🔁 87 💬 5 📌 8

You may remember the fake journal (Journal ot the Academy of Public Health) that the NIH Director and FDA Commissioner were both editors for.

George Tidmarsh was the Board Chair. His son, Charlie (who worked for RealClear), was the Executive Editor.

www.science.org/content/arti...

21.07.2025 14:11 👍 47 🔁 20 💬 4 📌 4
Homepage [EN] | Shop.un.org

Order your official UN gifts now, while supplies last.
All proceeds support the work of the United Nations.

18.07.2025 11:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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17.07.2025 04:09 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Thomas Piketty : « La situation de fragilité financière sans précédent des Etats-Unis explique l’agressivité du pouvoir trumpiste » CHRONIQUE. L’idée d’un libre-échange spontanément harmonieux ne résiste pas à l’épreuve des faits. Face aux déséquilibres, la bonne réponse serait la mise en place d’une monnaie commune, juge l’économ...

#Piketty «Il est temps que l’Europe sorte de sa mollesse et s’allie aux démocraties du Sud pour refonder le système commercial et financier au service d’un autre modèle de développement» www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl...

12.07.2025 13:06 👍 48 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 3