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Benjamin Mason Meier
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Professor of Global Health Policy at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill | Working at the intersection of #GlobalHealth & #HumanRights benjaminmasonmeier.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 6d
“Miasma theory” stages a comeback in the United States

Deep sigh 😮‍💨

www.theatlantic.com/health/2025/...
RFK Jr.’s Miasma Theory of Health Is Spreading
The NIH is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 7d
“More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are highly effective and extremely safe”

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The HPV vaccine is erasing cancer – here's the proof
More than a decade after the first HPV vaccination programmes rolled out, data from multiple countries reveals a dramatic fall in cervical cancers and precancers, confirming that HPV vaccines are high...
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 8d
SCOOP: CDC officials on Monday linked for the first time the measles outbreak that began in Texas with another in Utah and Arizona, a finding that could end America’s status as a nation that has eliminated measles.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/h...
C.D.C. Links Measles Outbreaks in Multiple States for the First Time
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Benjamin Mason Meier @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social · 9d
It was inspiring to join the "Complicating the Narrative" podcast, speaking with Salma Abdalla about the central importance of Human Rights to Global Health.
Please follow our discussion on the evolution of efforts to make the Right to Health real throughout the world
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Health as a human right with Benjamin Mason Meier
YouTube video by Complicating The Narrative
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WHO @who.int · 9d
#ClimateChange is jeopardising our health and wellbeing.

Health workers share the devastating impacts of the climate crisis on the health of their patients.

Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13d
Access to vaccines is not a privilege — it is a human right.

In @statnews.com today, Stefan Peterson and I write about using a human rights-based approach to deal with vaccine denialism and the return of measles, whooping cough and diphtheria

www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...
Kids have a right to vaccinations. Let's bring in the lawyers
Children suffering from diseases that should have been consigned to history is a moral failure. Access to vaccines is a human right.
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Thiru Balasubramaniam @thirugeneva.bsky.social · 15d
Politico: Pandemic response, the Trump way - Is the U.S. about to torpedo the World Health Organization’s pandemic agreement from afar?
pro.politico.eu/news/pandemic-response-the-trump-way @who.int
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WHO @who.int · 15d
Every climate decision is a health decision.

From local communities to global leaders, #ClimateAction is needed now to:
💚 Protect lives
💪 Strengthen health systems
🛡️ Secure a safe, healthy future for all

Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30
Infographic with a colourful textured background. Large white lungs illustration in the centre. Text reads: ‘The climate crisis is a health crisis, but every leader has the power to shape a healthier, safer future.’ Infographic with a colourful textured background showing actions leaders can take on climate and health. Text boxes read: Build climate-resilient, low-carbon health systems; Ensure access to clean energy and safe water for all; Strengthen disease detection and early warning systems; Cut emissions to protect the air we breathe; Support communities to prepare for climate risks and stay healthy; Join the Alliance for Transformative Action on Climate and Health.

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WHO @who.int · 16d
Healthcare workers are on the frontlines of the climate crisis, protecting lives as our planet heats up.

This is their call to action:
🗣️It’s time to put health at the centre of #ClimateAction

Learn more: bit.ly/HealthCOP30 #COP30

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NPR @npr.org · 17d
At the heart of the impasse is a debate about expiring subsidies for health insurance. It's the latest chapter in a fight over Obamacare that has dominated Congress since the law was signed in 2010.
How an enduring debate over health care sparked a now record-long shutdown
At the heart of the impasse is a debate about expiring subsidies for health insurance. It's the latest chapter in a fight over Obamacare that has dominated Congress since the law was signed in 2010.
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 17d
Gutting the corporate alternative minimum tax, designed to make sure wildly profitable corporations pay *something*, while cutting food, health, and heating assistance.
How the Trump Administration Is Giving Even More Tax Breaks to the Wealthy
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 19d
“A federal judge on Thursday excoriated the Trump administration’s blitz of hardball tactics against elite universities, warning that the government’s threats and investigations were undermining academic freedom at the University of California.”
Trump Pressure Risks Free Speech at University of California, Judge Warns
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 19d
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
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Benjamin Mason Meier @benjaminmasonmeier.bsky.social · 19d
The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative wanted to “focus on something that wasn’t going to be undone every few years” . . . said the man whose changing whims are ending billions in funding for education, housing, and health. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...
Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Restructure Their Philanthropy
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 24d
The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'
A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...
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Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social · 27d
"The staff supporting ... (ACIP) were let go earlier this month in a sweeping round of layoffs that gutted entire departments of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)." via @melodyschreiber.com @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Threat to US vaccines as CDC staff supporting key advisory panel laid off
Critics say scientists ‘held hostage’ by RFK Jr as changes mean vaccine development and guidance in peril
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Center for Public Health Law Research, Temple University @templelegalepi.bsky.social · 27d
New dataset released by CPHLR, in partnership with @sluhealthlaw.bsky.social, Pacific University School of Social Work, Wayne State COE, and MAP, covers 12 years of U.S. state conversion therapy laws. Explore the dataset: www.slu.edu/law/health/l...

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 27d
The most insanely frustrating thing about the #ClimateCrisis is how the breakthrough we so clearly need isn’t technological. It’s just a collective willingness, a determination even, to change in ways that would clearly be SO MUCH BETTER than the clear and obvious consequences of NOT changing.

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Jen Bendery @jbendery.bsky.social · 29d
NEW: The Trump administration is using a new metric for assessing HHS employees in their annual performance reviews: whether they are sufficiently loyal to Trump’s policy agenda www.huffpost.com/entry/hhs-em...
HHS Employees Now Being Measured By Loyalty To Trump's Policies
In annual performance reviews, federal workers will be assessed on whether they “clearly and demonstrably support implementation” of Trump’s agenda.
www.huffpost.com

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Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social · Oct 24
For its 80th anniversary, the U.N. asserts we are "better together." Since its founding, the U.N.'s survival has depended on how it positions itself in situations of injustice. The story of the U.N. is the story of Congo. Read my latest in @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/123129/unite...
The United Nations and a World in Pain
The U.N.’s survival depends on how it positions itself between the elephant and the mouse, in South America, Asia, Africa, and beyond.
www.justsecurity.org

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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · Oct 24
In the past 2 weeks several European countries have reported locally acquired cases of #mpox clade Ib.
This is new. There had been patients before but those infections likely happened elsewhere.
Now it looks like mpox Ib is spreading here in the sexual networks of men who have sex with men.
#IDsky

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Andrea Junker @strandjunker.com · Oct 23
Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · Oct 18
If Shohei Ohtani can hit three home runs while pitching six shutout innings, you can spend a couple of hours marching for democracy.

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MaddowBlog @maddowblog.bsky.social · Oct 18
"Based on the newly posted information, a family of four making $130,000 in Maine would face an increase of $16,100 in annual premiums next year...."
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/h...
Higher Obamacare Prices Become Public in a Dozen States
www.nytimes.com

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Amy Kapczynski @akapczynski.bsky.social · Oct 17
Wow - California's public insulin will be on the market in Jan! Big milestone for public pharma efforts. Could help millions of diabetics, esp if they can build a more public supply chain too. We describe why public pharma is important in this paper ... www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
In shot across Big Pharma's bow, California will sell its own insulin
Delivery of the state-branded drug makes good on a longstanding promise by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
www.politico.com

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · Oct 17
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

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ACLU @aclu.org · Oct 16
A new memo signed by President Trump, known as NSPM-7, aims to add nonprofits and activists to an ever-growing list of what he calls the “enemy within.”

It’s important to remember that the president cannot rewrite the constitution by memo. Here's what the directive actually does and doesn't do.
How NSPM-7 Seeks to Use "Domestic Terrorism" to Target Nonprofits and Activists | ACLU
What President Donald Trump’s latest memorandum targeting civil society does, does not, and cannot do
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Oct 16
“When you have a disability people can’t see, you don’t get the same level of empathy. It feels like the world has moved on.”

It’s shameful how society is gaslighting people who are experiencing chronic illness and ignoring an ongoing public health crisis.
Long Covid Is Real -- And It's Changing an Entire Generation
Long Covid is affecting hundreds of thousands of kids in America, and many doctors and schools refuse to recognize their illness.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · Oct 13
Hundreds of infectious disease specialists have been let go by the Trump administration. Here are four who helped to keep pandemics at bay.
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www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/h...
They Fought Outbreaks Worldwide. Now They’re Fighting for New Lives.
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JAMA @jama.com · Oct 13
Breaking with the CDC, ACOG reaffirms support for #COVID19 vaccination in pregnant people.

Here’s what to know. ja.ma/3VYFRwQ
ACOG Continues Recommending COVID-19 Vaccine During Pregnancy
This JAMA Medical News article discusses updated guidance on COVID-19 vaccination in pregnant people from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
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