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Democratic Republic of the Congo faces continued measles outbreak amidst armed conflict, with Lomami, North and South Kivu being most affected
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=9b849e17-e936-473d-a0af-44c8d9bfd829&eventid=c2ae938d-fdc7-43a7-9d3d-bf29cdb917d5&utm_source=bluesky
November 24, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Request for information (RFI): Shiga toxin producing E. coli (STEC) cases linked to Arizona State Fair petting zoo with 8 children hospitalized in Phoenix and Mesa
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=75e30fac-03d9-4936-9df2-cda4ec3ef02b&utm_source=bluesky
November 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM
As DOGE is disbanded with 8 months left in its contract, TIME reflects on the changes it made, including major cuts to USAID which has lead to over 600,000 deaths globally, as estimated by CEID faculty Dr. @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social.
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DOGE Disbanded: Elon Musk’s Cost-Cutting Project Quietly Ended
Musk said the initiative would save at least $1 trillion. But its website claims to have reached only $214 billion.
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November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Congratulations to CEID faculty member Dr. Jai Marathe on being awarded the Outstanding Citizenship Award as part of @bumedicine.bsky.social Dept. of Medicine's Evans Days Awards! Well done to all the awardees!
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November 21, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Since 1974, routine immunization has saved an estimated 154 million lives, making vaccines the single biggest driver of infant survival in the modern era. Vaccine hesitancy threatens this progress, @syramadad.bsky.social writes for the New York Academy of Sciences.
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Vaccines Gave Us Back Our Tomorrows. We’re Squandering Them
More than half a century of vaccine progress is swiftly being undone because of politics and propaganda.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Pushing back against claims that diet & exercise alone are sufficient to protect against infectious diseases, experts including CEID Director @bhadeliamd.bsky.social tell @theatlantic.com that these strategies are not a replacement for vaccines and medicines.
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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November 19, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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November 18, 2025 at 9:45 PM
In an opinion piece for @thehill.com, CEID faculty Dr. @josephharrisbu.bsky.social explains why Republicans should consider the option of public health insurance as a method to drive market competition to encourage private insurers to offer more competitive pricing.
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How Republicans can rescue the party and do something good for Americans
The Republican Party needs to offer a "public option" in the American health care system to provide relief to Americans facing soaring health care premiums and to avoid a midterm electi...
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November 18, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Thank you to Kevin McCarthy from @gatesfoundation.bsky.social's Institute for Disease Modeling for coming to speak to our audience from CEID & @busph.bsky.social Dept. of Global Health yesterday about his group's work using data modeling to further efforts to eliminate measles and polio.
November 18, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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In this @thehill.com op-ed, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social (Boston University) argues that offering a “public option” could reduce health care costs for millions of Americans and explains why Republican lawmakers could view the idea as a viable strategy for 2026.

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How Republicans can rescue the party and do something good for Americans
The Republican Party needs to offer a “public option” in the American health care system to provide relief to Americans facing soaring health care premiums and to avoid a midterm electi…
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November 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
"In cases where we cannot prevent pandemic threats from emerging, the second line of defense is to quickly detect and stop them from spreading," @spsaki.bsky.social writes on @vox.com, citing CEID's @beaconbio.bsky.social program as one such early detection system.
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Pandemics are a choice
The end of pandemics is within reach. Why aren’t we acting like it?
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November 14, 2025 at 10:28 PM
When Takeda withdrew its application for FDA approval of their dengue vaccine, Qdenga, in 2023, they did not have enough data at the time on its efficacy against all 4 serotypes, explains CEID faculty Dr. David Hamer (@busph.bsky.social). More at @gohealio.bsky.social
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Takeda says dengue vaccine provides yearslong protection
Takeda’s dengue vaccine demonstrated strong protection against infection and hospitalization for up to 7 years, findings shared by the company showed. The company reported data from the phase 3 TIDES ...
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November 14, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Yesterday on @busph.bsky.social & @comatbu.bsky.social webinar CEID faculty Dr. @tracijhong.bsky.social discussed the power of rhetoric in communication to grab people's attention & how that can be used both to share health info & how it helps misinformation take hold
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQjO...
PHC Public Health and New Media
YouTube video by Boston University School of Public Health
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November 13, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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Request for information (RFI): Eight suspected hemorrhagic fever cases reported in Jinka, South Ethiopia. RFI on diagnostic testing results, symptoms and common exposures
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=38409f21-ab01-41d3-b989-00e54ce199ba&utm_source=bluesky
November 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Tomorrow, join us for "Collapse and Resiliency: The Inside Story of Liberia's Unprecedented Ebola Response," the @bupardeeschool.bsky.social's final politics of global health workshop of this semester. Tune in on Zoom or join at 67 Bay State Rd from 4-5:30pm ET.
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November 12, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Tune in at 1pm ET today for @busph.bsky.social & @comatbu.bsky.social's webinar "Public Health & New Media: Modes of Persuasion," where CEID faculty Dr. @tracijhong.bsky.social will be discussing social media's role in public health communication.
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Public Health and New Media: Modes of Persuasion - Public Health Conversations
Jeff Niederdeppe is the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Communication in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Senior Associate Dean of Faculty and Research in the Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Have you seen Dr. @adilnajam.bsky.social's keynote address on the health impacts of climate change from our symposium last week, "The Climate Crisis and the Future of Infectious Diseases," with @museumofscience.bsky.social? Watch his very moving and inspiring talk here:
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November 7, 2025 at 6:59 PM
But now the gains are being reversed. In Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, our team visited Clinic 7, where the sickest children come. After US aid ended, food supply fell to 40% of minimum needs, 2/3 of health workers were laid off, & sever malnutrition surged. 4/
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November 6, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Today @TheNewYorker released our short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” online.

It traces the ongoing effects of the sudden shutdown of US foreign aid through the story of one mother in Kenya as she seeks to save her daughter from sickness and starvation. 🎥 1/ www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
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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November 6, 2025 at 12:41 PM
In a commentary accompanying @newyorker.com documentary, "Rovina's Choice," Dr. @agawande.bsky.social cites stats reported by CEID faculty Dr. @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social (funded in part by CEID), estimating the global toll of USAID cuts
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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.
www.newyorker.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Couldn't make it to our symposium, "The Climate Crisis and the Future of Infectious Diseases," last week with <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:aarlla3zcxvhzwpl4curmdrd" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@museumofscience.bsky.social? You can watch the full recording, including a powerful keynote address by <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:4ww7dieo2xdcx6rkgnsiu5ck" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-link="bsky-mention">@adilnajam.bsky.social, here!
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The Climate Crisis and the Future of Infectious Diseases
On Oct. 30, 2025, CEID hosted "The Climate Crisis and the Future of Infectious Diseases" in partnership with Boston's Museum of Science. As part of the museum’s 2025 theme of “Being Human,” this symposium addressed climate change and its impacts across the health of humans, animals, and the environment. The symposium’s overall objectives are to: • Provide greater understanding of what climate change impacts on infectious diseases are and why they matter; • Define the threats that climate change poses to the spectrum of One Health and what we can expect to see in the future; • Discuss what steps are being taken to mitigate these threats. 0:00 Welcome by Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, CEID Founding Director 5:32 Opening remarks by Tim Ritchie, President of Museum of Science 10:39 Address by Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) 14:58 Panel discussion moderated by Dr. Nahid Bhadelia, with panelists Dr. Marissa Hauptman, Chief Medical Advisor at the Bureau of Climate and Environmental Health at the Massachusetts Department of Public Health; Dr. Britta Lassmann, Co-Director of the Biothreats Emergence Analysis and Communications Network (BEACON); Dr. Syra Madad, Senior Director of the System-wide Special Pathogens Program at NYC Health + Hospitals and Health; and Dr. Benjamin Sovacool, Director of the Boston University Institute for Global Sustainability 1:29:28 Keynote address by Dr. Adil Najam, President of WWF International
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November 4, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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Have you used the new map feature now at the top of BEACON events and reports? This new feature is designed to give our users greater geographical context about the diseases we're reporting on. Learn more about this new feature here: spr.ly/633277Hyv5
October 31, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"There is not a person in this room who has not experienced effects of climate change. We are not trying to stop it from happening as a future issue. Now the question is how much of a future issue will it be?" @adilnajam.bsky.social asks our audience.
October 30, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Please help us welcome our keynote speaker, Dr. @adilnajam.bsky.social, President of @worldwildlife.org and Dean Emeritus of @bupardeeschool.bsky.social, speaking now on Zoom.
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October 30, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Dr. Lassmann explains how, as diseases spread to new regions as climates change, @beaconbio.bsky.social can help provide greater understanding for providers about how to identify cases of less familiar diseases that may not have been endemic to their locale previously.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM