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Prabhat Jha
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U of Toronto. Epidemiologist, author, father, husband and mediocre skier. Professionally obsessed with death. www.cghr.org

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Prabhat Jha is an Indian-Canadian epidemiologist currently working in the field of global health.

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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Aug 29
Time for Canada to offer to move the UN from the USA to Canada (preferably one Eastern and one Western city)?

Win-win-win for the UN independence, for urban economic growth and for Canada politically.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Dec 1
India did not get "herd" immunity from widespread initial COVID wave in '20 but did get hybrid immunity after killer wave in '21 + successful vax program in later '21. So few '22-23 excess deaths. Claims of herd immunity in late '20, early '21 misled.

Sadly ~3-4.5M Indians died, most in '21.
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Anbu Paramasivam @anbup.bsky.social · Jun 25
A powerful session at #PrevConf25 on why health inequalities must be front and centre in cancer risk and primary prevention—co-chaired by Profs Davis & Bhatla, with key insights from Prof Chambwe, Prof Chibwesha, Dr McCullough & @countthedead.bsky.social.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Jun 13
"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California
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Dr. Sven-Eric Jordt #TobRegSky @sejordt.bsky.social · Jun 12
#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 🫁
HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings, including of staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice. But not the Office of Smoking and Health (OSH).
www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/h...
HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings
The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the CDC.
www.statnews.com
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Human Mortality Database @hmdatabase.bsky.social · Jun 11
#episky #mortality
📣 #Sweden #HMD series updated through 2024

🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org

In 2024, the gap between #lifeexpectancy for men at birth and women at birth continues to narrow in Sweden.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Jun 8
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11 Million Illegal immigrants in the US- and understanding where/why is essential to any non-hate based solution.
What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S.
The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · May 24
Years ago... we came up with a simple spreadsheet to calculate live saved from higher cig tax... Still be used... eg Bangladesh... Effective Tobacco Taxation Reduces Deaths and Increases Revenue thenewse.com/effective-to... @tcrgbath.bsky.social
Effective Tobacco Taxation Reduces Deaths and Increases Revenue - দ্যা নিউজ
Economists and public health experts have stated that implementing effective taxes and price hikes on tobacco products, free from the interference of tobacco companies, in the upcoming FY 2025–26 budg...
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · May 10
External regulation!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...
Opinion | These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies
www.nytimes.com
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · May 2
Really cool universal antivenom for snakebites?~100K snakebite deaths a year, including ~50K in India
elifesciences.org/articles/54076
Universal Antivenom from Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...
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Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him Hundreds of Times
Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · May 2
To 258 million American friends, I am so pleased Donald Trump single handedly stopped you from overdosing on Fentynl. Phew! That was close.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Apr 3
The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...
Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist
Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.
www.nytimes.com

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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Apr 1
Please join me on May 21st for a stimulating discussion on global health featuring Sir Richard Peto, Prof Dean Jamison, and many others. Online and free. Register at:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-pgme-...
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2025 PGME Global Health Day
Current and Incoming Residents and Fellows and Faculty are invited to attend the 12th Annual PGME Global Health Day.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Mar 10
Siddhartha Mukherjee's troubling diagnosis of Public Health erosion in the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear (Gift Article)
What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.
www.nytimes.com
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Mar 4
Dear Friends in the US. You will understand why I am cancelling all trips, vacations in the US and purchases of American products. Canada and our brothers/sisters in Mexico will not be bullied by one man.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Mar 4
I don’t blame the lobsters
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Mar 3
Shreya Jha writes thoughtfully about death, arts, and medical care.
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An afternoon on the hospice piano
As a composer, I have channelled emotions into art for as long as I can remember. When death was still only an abstract concept to me, I approached it with tentative curiosity. I allowed myself to fee...
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Feb 28
Trump/Musk actions will kill people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @who.int
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article)
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Feb 27
BigTobacco + (sloppy) economists = Nonsense economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c...

ITC smuggles own cigs to scare finance Min then complains! Low cig excises in India means GoI loses Rs to BigTobacco

See correct policy: www.epw.in/journal/2011...
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India’s high tax rates: Boon for bureaucrats, bane for the economy
India has one of the highest GST rates globally, leading to lower tax revenue efficiency and economic activity. High tax policies have deterred consumption, increased black market activities, and driv...
economictimes.indiatimes.com

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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Feb 25
Worth watching.

USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust. open.substack.com/pub/insideme... @agawande.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social
USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust.
February 24, 2025. An in-depth and up-to-date deep-dive on where things really stand in the Trump administration's assault on USAID, which has long been one of the United States' greatest assets.
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JAMA @jama.com · Jan 31
"How do we know where to draw the line, and when it is time to resist?"

This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions taken so far during the first week of the administration.

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PLOS Global Public Health @plosglobalpublichealth.org · Jan 8
Just published on PLOS Global Public Health:

It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29

by Peter Hotez

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
It won’t end with COVID: Countering the next phase of American antivaccine activism 2025–29
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Dec 30
Epidemiology and global health... please add me.
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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Dec 30
It’s fascinating—& painful—to look back at Michelle Obama’s impressive record in improving America’s diet, especially for kids

The GOP did all it could to torpedo it—that party has a long record of opposing progressive public health measures (they cry “nanny state!”)

www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12...
How Michelle Obama quietly changed what Americans eat
I was skeptical of the First Lady’s work on childhood obesity — until I looked at her track record.
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Dec 30
How did COVID hybrid immunity build in Canada, India, China, and Sierra Leone? Lessons for early vax + need to understand African paradoxes.
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COVID mortality and hybrid immunity from infection and vaccination: a global perspective
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Dec 30
Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...
Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health
In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.
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Jared Boyce @jared-boyce.bsky.social · Dec 30
How Jimmy Carter’s global health efforts elevated ‘the art of the possible’ www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h... via @statnews.com #episky #medsky #science
How Jimmy Carter's global health efforts elevated 'the art of the possible'
Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.
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Aaron Weiss @aweiss.bsky.social · Dec 27
After nearly three decades, a Minnesota summer camp for kids with HIV/AIDS is closing and up for sale... because retroviral drugs are so effective that there aren't enough campers.

Science works, y'all.

www.startribune.com/closure-of-n...
Closure of northern Minnesota camp is ‘the greatest story.’ Here’s why.
Willow River, Minn., camp One Heartland is for sale after serving kids there for nearly three decades.
www.startribune.com
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Prabhat Jha @countthedead.bsky.social · Dec 26
It was a privilege to work with Dr. Manmohan Singh on global commissions and to support India's National Health Mission. I showed him MDS data that NHM conservatively averted 1M child deaths, but further action could save even more. My thoughts are with his family.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...
Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister, Dies at 92
The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan.
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Chris Nelder @chrisnelder.bsky.social · Dec 19
I can hardly think of a better example of the moral decay in modern health care than a Goldman analyst noting that biotech cures for diseases like hepatitis are cool and all, until their success diminishes the business opportunity for pharmaceutical manufacturers.

www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/g...
Goldman Sachs asks in biotech research report: 'Is curing patients a sustainable business model?'
Goldman Sachs warns sales from the most successful disease treatments are difficult to maintain.
www.cnbc.com
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