Travis Bias
@tbias.bsky.social
Physician | Deputy CMO of HIS at Solventum | Health Systems at UCSF IGHS | #MedSky | Op-Eds in Stat & Think Global Health
Our “unilateral disarmament” is a huge gift to our competition.
China is all too happy to fill the quickly forming vacuum.
In tennis, we call this an “unforced error.”
China is all too happy to fill the quickly forming vacuum.
In tennis, we call this an “unforced error.”
March 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Our “unilateral disarmament” is a huge gift to our competition.
China is all too happy to fill the quickly forming vacuum.
In tennis, we call this an “unforced error.”
China is all too happy to fill the quickly forming vacuum.
In tennis, we call this an “unforced error.”
“These half-truths and strategic deceptions made it easier for people with the worst motives to appear trustworthy”
Great piece. The truth and facts are the cornerstone of science, and thus public health.
Great piece. The truth and facts are the cornerstone of science, and thus public health.
The Wuhan lab is STILL doing unsafe research that could trigger a pandemic AND getting prestigious pubs as incentive.😫
To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true.
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
To fix this for the future, we have to admit we were deliberately misled on the possibility of a lab leak in the past. Horrid but true.
Gift link
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/o...
March 17, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“These half-truths and strategic deceptions made it easier for people with the worst motives to appear trustworthy”
Great piece. The truth and facts are the cornerstone of science, and thus public health.
Great piece. The truth and facts are the cornerstone of science, and thus public health.
Basically: China First, America Second.
“Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation.”
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Basically: China First, America Second.
“Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation.”
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
www.newyorker.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:59 AM
“Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation.”
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions.
#science #health #research
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Could not agree more.
Time for strategic retreat.
Give the people what they voted for.
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #democrats
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Time for strategic retreat.
Give the people what they voted for.
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #democrats
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
March 2, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Could not agree more.
Time for strategic retreat.
Give the people what they voted for.
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #democrats
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
Time for strategic retreat.
Give the people what they voted for.
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #democrats
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
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“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
Imagine the impact this has on the reputation of America around the world.
Abruptly removing aid is not the right way to reform or change.
#publichealth #usaid #diplomacy
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
Abruptly removing aid is not the right way to reform or change.
#publichealth #usaid #diplomacy
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling
The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.
www.nytimes.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Imagine the impact this has on the reputation of America around the world.
Abruptly removing aid is not the right way to reform or change.
#publichealth #usaid #diplomacy
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
Abruptly removing aid is not the right way to reform or change.
#publichealth #usaid #diplomacy
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
Informed consent includes mentioning the benefits.
Like you and your family not being one of 40,000 dead Americans during each flu season.
@helenbranswell.bsky.social #vaccineswork #vaccines #publichealth
www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...
Like you and your family not being one of 40,000 dead Americans during each flu season.
@helenbranswell.bsky.social #vaccineswork #vaccines #publichealth
www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...
HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’
The CDC was ordered to shelve promotions it developed for a variety of vaccines after Health Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants message focused on "informed consent."
www.statnews.com
February 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Informed consent includes mentioning the benefits.
Like you and your family not being one of 40,000 dead Americans during each flu season.
@helenbranswell.bsky.social #vaccineswork #vaccines #publichealth
www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...
Like you and your family not being one of 40,000 dead Americans during each flu season.
@helenbranswell.bsky.social #vaccineswork #vaccines #publichealth
www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...
Compelling piece, in which @gregggonsalves.bsky.social reminds us:
“you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #hiv #aids #publichealth
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
“you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #hiv #aids #publichealth
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Compelling piece, in which @gregggonsalves.bsky.social reminds us:
“you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #hiv #aids #publichealth
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
“you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”
@nytopinion.nytimes.com #hiv #aids #publichealth
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
“In Kenya alone, at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs.”
“Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 #healthworkers recruited under American funding.”
These systems will collapse without their health workforce.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
#health #diplomacy #healthsystems #usaid
“Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 #healthworkers recruited under American funding.”
These systems will collapse without their health workforce.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
#health #diplomacy #healthsystems #usaid
New in the @nytimes.com: “’We are in disbelief,’ said Medhanye Alem of the Center for Victims of Torture, which treats survivors of conflict-related trauma at nine centers in northern Ethiopia, all now closed.” By @declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/w...
‘We Are in Disbelief’: Africa Reels as U.S. Aid Agency Is Dismantled
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 5:47 PM
“In Kenya alone, at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs.”
“Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 #healthworkers recruited under American funding.”
These systems will collapse without their health workforce.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
#health #diplomacy #healthsystems #usaid
“Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 #healthworkers recruited under American funding.”
These systems will collapse without their health workforce.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
#health #diplomacy #healthsystems #usaid
It was an honor to join Lalita and Kelly for this discussion about “how technology can scale the magic of Family Medicine."
#medicine #primarycare #MedSky
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#medicine #primarycare #MedSky
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Travis Bias, DO: The Family Medicine Business Ambassador
One Click At a Time: Technology Empowered Family Medicine Podcast · Episode
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February 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
It was an honor to join Lalita and Kelly for this discussion about “how technology can scale the magic of Family Medicine."
#medicine #primarycare #MedSky
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#medicine #primarycare #MedSky
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This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵
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What’s happening isn’t reform. It’s an attempt to capture and destroy the single most critical piece of infrastructure in global democracy and rights support—US funding. And it’s working.
February 1, 2025 at 7:16 PM
What’s happening isn’t reform. It’s an attempt to capture and destroy the single most critical piece of infrastructure in global democracy and rights support—US funding. And it’s working.
“At stake is not just the good will that the United States has built internationally, but also its work to promote America’s security interests.”
Beyond the moral case there is a clear self-interest case that the Admin is missing.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
Beyond the moral case there is a clear self-interest case that the Admin is missing.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:05 PM
“At stake is not just the good will that the United States has built internationally, but also its work to promote America’s security interests.”
Beyond the moral case there is a clear self-interest case that the Admin is missing.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
Beyond the moral case there is a clear self-interest case that the Admin is missing.
@declanwalsh.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
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This was maybe the most sobering moment in my reporting this week – a scientist doing the tabulation of how long the tail of this would be, even if funding resumed shortly.
“You could open the funding floodgates again tomorrow and you will still have children dying months from now because of this pause.”
The scale of this is difficult to capture.
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
The scale of this is difficult to capture.
@stephanienolen.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
This was maybe the most sobering moment in my reporting this week – a scientist doing the tabulation of how long the tail of this would be, even if funding resumed shortly.
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I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
www.nytimes.com
February 1, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
This will end up being a deadly and costly (financial, credibility) freeze for the US.
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
Trump Aid Whiplash Hits Refugees, AIDS Patients Worldwide
Muddled orders from the administration have left global charities confused about what they are and aren’t allowed to do with American money.
www.wsj.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:45 PM
This will end up being a deadly and costly (financial, credibility) freeze for the US.
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/world/africa...
What an incredible testament to the importance of:
- Investments in #healthsystems; “Rwanda, for its part, has invested heavily in its healthcare system.”
- Partnerships & relationships
- Preparedness, such as Table Top Exercises.
…all to bring the 100 Days Mission to reality.
- Investments in #healthsystems; “Rwanda, for its part, has invested heavily in its healthcare system.”
- Partnerships & relationships
- Preparedness, such as Table Top Exercises.
…all to bring the 100 Days Mission to reality.
December 21, 2024 at 6:21 PM
What an incredible testament to the importance of:
- Investments in #healthsystems; “Rwanda, for its part, has invested heavily in its healthcare system.”
- Partnerships & relationships
- Preparedness, such as Table Top Exercises.
…all to bring the 100 Days Mission to reality.
- Investments in #healthsystems; “Rwanda, for its part, has invested heavily in its healthcare system.”
- Partnerships & relationships
- Preparedness, such as Table Top Exercises.
…all to bring the 100 Days Mission to reality.
"Generating support for an internationalist #foreignpolicy requires...a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active US.
Isolation has never been the answer to the country’s security or prosperity." ...or #health
@foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Isolation has never been the answer to the country’s security or prosperity." ...or #health
@foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Perils of Isolationism
The world still needs America—and America still needs the world.
www.foreignaffairs.com
December 21, 2024 at 5:46 PM
"Generating support for an internationalist #foreignpolicy requires...a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active US.
Isolation has never been the answer to the country’s security or prosperity." ...or #health
@foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
Isolation has never been the answer to the country’s security or prosperity." ...or #health
@foreignaffairs.com
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
A few visuals of the #corruption that siphoned off resources from the health system.
Among other health impacts of the regime…
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/w...
Among other health impacts of the regime…
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/w...
A Tour of Assad’s Monumental Palace, With a Scruffy Rebel as a Guide
The televisions may be stripped away now, but a presidential residence still contains many remnants of a brutal reign.
www.nytimes.com
December 11, 2024 at 3:55 AM
A few visuals of the #corruption that siphoned off resources from the health system.
Among other health impacts of the regime…
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/w...
Among other health impacts of the regime…
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/w...
When Geriatric #Millennials envisioned our generation taking power, these were not the personalities we had in mind.
Now the anti-war anti-interventionist views? Oddly, we can find common ground.
Now the anti-war anti-interventionist views? Oddly, we can find common ground.
The Global War on Terrorism turned JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth into fierce critics of U.S. foreign policy, and they are hardly alone among veterans.
🔗: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
🔗: www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
December 7, 2024 at 5:05 AM
When Geriatric #Millennials envisioned our generation taking power, these were not the personalities we had in mind.
Now the anti-war anti-interventionist views? Oddly, we can find common ground.
Now the anti-war anti-interventionist views? Oddly, we can find common ground.
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This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
December 7, 2024 at 2:08 AM
This is an oligarchy.
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER
Stop the oligarchy
This is a phenomenal and heartbreaking piece about how conflict contributes to antimicrobial resistance.
#amr #conflict #MedSky
#amr #conflict #MedSky
Antimicrobial resistance could be the next global health catastrophe—hitting hardest in war-torn regions. AUB experts Drs. Souha Kanj, Ghassan Abu Sittah, Abdul Rahman Bizri, Antoine Abou Fayad & Fady Haddad reveal how conflict fuels this crisis. #AcademicSky 🧪
Read in The NYT Mag: tr.ee/393ZaWGzxX
Read in The NYT Mag: tr.ee/393ZaWGzxX
December 7, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
December 1, 2024 at 11:44 PM
Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
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www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Knocked out to get my first piece in the world's best newspaper @nytimes.com
Knocked out to get my first piece in the world's best newspaper @nytimes.com
Opinion | Kennedy’s Antivax Views and Friends Can Cause Real Damage
What he did during a measles epidemic in Samoa shouldn’t be forgotten.
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2024 at 12:00 PM
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o...
Knocked out to get my first piece in the world's best newspaper @nytimes.com
Knocked out to get my first piece in the world's best newspaper @nytimes.com