Bethany Hedt-Gauthier

What a compliment!

Please join us for our next global surgery research seminar, March 13, 9-10:30am ET.

This month's topic: Telemedicine and Telesurgery.

More information: www.pgssc.org/researchsemi...
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#inspired.

Please watch her speech, it really demonstrates that compassion makes effective leadership.

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a woman in a black dress is sitting in a white chair and waving ALT: a woman in a black dress is sitting in a white chair and waving

With exhaustion

💯

NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?

Oopsies

CDC will no longer process transgender data The agency's decision will likely affect a number of federal health surveillance systems that serve as critical resources for researchers.

#Erasure
If you are silent I'm the face of this, it will not save or spare you. Whether we count them or not trans people have always existed and will always exist.
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In a moment that feels upside down, I found this specific in guiding how I think and act anew when putting things right side up.

The fact that our “Stuck in the Middle” paper was referenced gave me a bit of courage.

Look at this leader. Lift her up.

Folks in red states need to flood their Senators offices, town halls, etc.

This fight for Medicaid isn’t only about health care, it’s about jobs (staff in hospitals, nursing homes, etc) and the future of rural and community hospitals.

‘Disheartening’ auditor report reflects experiences filing complaints about nursing homes Auditors: Lack of timely inspections, follow-ups to complaints meant bad actors were able to get away with violating regulations.

My mom, a decade retired, still advocating for residents of long term care facilities. We’re lucky to have her.

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Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid federal research funding cuts Penn notified department chairs that it will cut admissions across graduate programs — a decision faculty members say will force them to rescind offers from newly-accepted students.

Another school curtails admissions, even offers already made. This is on #Trump, #Musk and #Vought. Time to fight back. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness On the 3rd anniversary of Dr Paul Farmer's death, several leaders reflect on his lessons for dealing with the ongoing crisis in global health and development

Paul Farmer’s Moral Clarity Offers Hope, Amidst Chaos And Darkness, by @madhupai.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk... via @forbes.com @gregggonsalves.bsky.social #GlobalHealth

Can you let me know of future rallies - I feel so disconnected but really want to be.

It’s a long past time that unions, professional and civic organizations, religious institutions, and all people of goodwill descend on DC and march to the White House. The question is who will lead this? What is happening now is madness.

I remember several years ago when interviewed by a major news outlet in honor of this day...

The entire time, he asked me about how hard it was to be a woman in science (I have plenty of fodder). At the end, he said "anything to add?" to which I said "yes, don't you want to know about my science?"

Please join us for our next Global Surgery Research Seminar - February 13, 9am EDT.

Register here: harvard.zoom.us/j/93213711174

Watch the last seminar ("Colonialism in Global Surgery") here: www.pgssc.org/copy-of-past...

@aaglobalsurgery.bsky.social @gendereqsurg.bsky.social

Screenshot of the paper "Acceptability of telemedicine"

**New Paper** In this paper, our team has demonstrated that a telemedicine intervention led by community health workers to provide home-based post-cesarean care is acceptable (even preferred) by patients and CHWs in rural Rwanda.

@partnersinhealth.bsky.social

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You rolled over on genocide in Gaza, were told to keep quiet and obeyed. No matter what you say about Trump now, it just rings hollow.

When we look back at Trump’s impact on (global/public) health we’d see that the failure of our response began with the failure of our response on Gaza.

"The [hu]man [soul] dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
— Wole Soyinka 

They’ve tested us (global/public health) and we’ve consistently failed. It is death by a thousand cuts.

But our silence, our capitulation will not protect us. They have come for us knowing we have no soul.

Interested in public health? Here are four Harvard-based opportunities for undergraduates to gain exposure and experience. 4 days left to apply.

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Bravo to Sen. Alsobrooks for her question.

“We should not be giving Black people the same vaccine schedule as Whites because their immune system is better than ours.” — RFK Jr

This is the deadlier version of the racist myth that Black people feel less pain, leading to denied pain meds.

Thanks to AmfAR for analyzing the effects of Donald J. Trump's Stop Work Orders for PEPFAR Programs.

Could the arc of the moral universe be a little shorter please

Learning analysis of health system resilience Abstract. The emergence of ‘resilience’ as a concept for analysing health systems—especially in low- and middle-income countries—has been trailed by debate

Our paper «  Learning analysis of health system resilience «  is now available in full at the Health Policy and Planning” journal.
@seyeabimbola.bsky.social @Sarah Bernays

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After a year battling health issues, I’m so happy to back in Rwanda! Forgot how much I love being here. @partnersinhealth.bsky.social

Meta ending its DEI programs, according to their HR: “Instead of equity and inclusion programs,” Gale wrote, Meta plans to build programs “that focus on how to apply fair and consistent practices that mitigate bias for all, no matter your background.”

Makes me think they didn’t understand DEI.

I am very involved in my small town's politics, including an elected position, and it is wild to me how little people care about equity.

"Density is good - but not on my street." "My road repair is more important because of ...."

People have a hard time seeing beyond their neighborhood.