Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD
@zekeemanuel.bsky.social
World leader in health policy, widely cited bioethicist, UPenn provost and professor, and oncologist.
Latest book: "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?"
Latest book: "Which Country Has the World's Best Health Care?"
Thanksgiving can be a wellness trifecta if you do these three things.
Good food packed with nutrients, good company and conversation, and a good walk afterward to get some exercise. These simple practices make for a healthy life. More in my forthcoming book, "Eat Your Ice Cream."
Good food packed with nutrients, good company and conversation, and a good walk afterward to get some exercise. These simple practices make for a healthy life. More in my forthcoming book, "Eat Your Ice Cream."
Psst: Thanksgiving Is Healthier Than You Think
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Thanksgiving can be a wellness trifecta if you do these three things.
Good food packed with nutrients, good company and conversation, and a good walk afterward to get some exercise. These simple practices make for a healthy life. More in my forthcoming book, "Eat Your Ice Cream."
Good food packed with nutrients, good company and conversation, and a good walk afterward to get some exercise. These simple practices make for a healthy life. More in my forthcoming book, "Eat Your Ice Cream."
In a major new @Lancet Series, researchers argue show how ultra-processed foods are a key driver of the global chronic disease epidemic.
As I talk about in my new book, the problem is when these foods become the foundation of your diet, not an occasional bite.
As I talk about in my new book, the problem is when these foods become the foundation of your diet, not an occasional bite.
November 20, 2025 at 2:41 PM
In a major new @Lancet Series, researchers argue show how ultra-processed foods are a key driver of the global chronic disease epidemic.
As I talk about in my new book, the problem is when these foods become the foundation of your diet, not an occasional bite.
As I talk about in my new book, the problem is when these foods become the foundation of your diet, not an occasional bite.
Rule #2 about wellness:
It’s not about perfection. Building a healthy lifestyle means creating habits you can live with every day, not chasing impossible standards.
More in my new book "Eat Your Ice Cream.”
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
It’s not about perfection. Building a healthy lifestyle means creating habits you can live with every day, not chasing impossible standards.
More in my new book "Eat Your Ice Cream.”
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
November 18, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Rule #2 about wellness:
It’s not about perfection. Building a healthy lifestyle means creating habits you can live with every day, not chasing impossible standards.
More in my new book "Eat Your Ice Cream.”
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
It’s not about perfection. Building a healthy lifestyle means creating habits you can live with every day, not chasing impossible standards.
More in my new book "Eat Your Ice Cream.”
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
Rule #1 about wellness: don’t sweat the small stuff.
Too many people obsess over minor changes that will not have a real impact on long-term health and wellness.
I discuss this in my forthcoming book “Eat Your Ice Cream.” Pre-order it here:
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
Too many people obsess over minor changes that will not have a real impact on long-term health and wellness.
I discuss this in my forthcoming book “Eat Your Ice Cream.” Pre-order it here:
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
November 17, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Rule #1 about wellness: don’t sweat the small stuff.
Too many people obsess over minor changes that will not have a real impact on long-term health and wellness.
I discuss this in my forthcoming book “Eat Your Ice Cream.” Pre-order it here:
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
Too many people obsess over minor changes that will not have a real impact on long-term health and wellness.
I discuss this in my forthcoming book “Eat Your Ice Cream.” Pre-order it here:
www.amazon.com/Eat-Your-Ice...
A breast cancer diagnosis can cost $80k in scans, surgery, chemo, and pathology within just a few months.
Trump’s proposed ACA reforms wouldn’t come close to helping people cover that.
More of my thoughts on @meetthepress.com ⬇️
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Trump’s proposed ACA reforms wouldn’t come close to helping people cover that.
More of my thoughts on @meetthepress.com ⬇️
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Republicans ‘have no ideas’ on how to reform health care: Obamacare architect
Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, a key architect of the Affordable Care Act, joins Meet the Press NOW to weigh in on the future of Obamacare and responds to President Trump’s proposal to send direct payments to A...
www.nbcnews.com
November 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
A breast cancer diagnosis can cost $80k in scans, surgery, chemo, and pathology within just a few months.
Trump’s proposed ACA reforms wouldn’t come close to helping people cover that.
More of my thoughts on @meetthepress.com ⬇️
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Trump’s proposed ACA reforms wouldn’t come close to helping people cover that.
More of my thoughts on @meetthepress.com ⬇️
www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-pre...
Who gets to be a doctor in America is about to change.
Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. As I have argued for years, it's time to shorten medical school to three years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. As I have argued for years, it's time to shorten medical school to three years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Opinion | Make Medical School Three Years
www.nytimes.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Who gets to be a doctor in America is about to change.
Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. As I have argued for years, it's time to shorten medical school to three years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
Trump’s new federal student loan caps will push lower-income students out of medicine and make the physician shortage worse. As I have argued for years, it's time to shorten medical school to three years.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/o...
I'm 67 years old and I just joined TikTok. Here's why.
As public health leaders, we must adapt to meet the audiences where they are.
On the CareTalk podcast, John Driscoll and I discuss the challenges facing public health communication today.
As public health leaders, we must adapt to meet the audiences where they are.
On the CareTalk podcast, John Driscoll and I discuss the challenges facing public health communication today.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I'm 67 years old and I just joined TikTok. Here's why.
As public health leaders, we must adapt to meet the audiences where they are.
On the CareTalk podcast, John Driscoll and I discuss the challenges facing public health communication today.
As public health leaders, we must adapt to meet the audiences where they are.
On the CareTalk podcast, John Driscoll and I discuss the challenges facing public health communication today.
We spend $1.5 trillion more on healthcare than any other country—and still leave millions uninsured.
The ACA was a critical step forward, but it was not a finished product. I spoke with @NPR about the past, present, and what still needs fixing.
www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
The ACA was a critical step forward, but it was not a finished product. I spoke with @NPR about the past, present, and what still needs fixing.
www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
Breaking down the Affordable Care Act: How it works and why it's so costly
The government remains shut down, as lawmakers fight over extending healthcare subsidies. NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Dr. Zeke Emanuel, who helped draft the Affordable Care Act.
www.npr.org
October 31, 2025 at 2:14 PM
We spend $1.5 trillion more on healthcare than any other country—and still leave millions uninsured.
The ACA was a critical step forward, but it was not a finished product. I spoke with @NPR about the past, present, and what still needs fixing.
www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
The ACA was a critical step forward, but it was not a finished product. I spoke with @NPR about the past, present, and what still needs fixing.
www.npr.org/2025/10/30/n...
Your doctor can't read your mind, but they can save your life if you ask the right questions and provide the right information. Read more of the no frills advice I offered @meghanrabbitt.bsky.social in @mariashriver.bsky.social's Sunday Paper.
www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/be-healthy-5...
www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/be-healthy-5...
5 Questions Doctors Wish Every Patient Would Ask
Your body changes with each decade—and so should your conversations with your doctor. Here’s what to ask to make sure you’re in control of your health.
Be Healthy is an exclusive offering of our Sund...
www.mariashriversundaypaper.com
October 29, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Your doctor can't read your mind, but they can save your life if you ask the right questions and provide the right information. Read more of the no frills advice I offered @meghanrabbitt.bsky.social in @mariashriver.bsky.social's Sunday Paper.
www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/be-healthy-5...
www.mariashriversundaypaper.com/be-healthy-5...
Dr. Peter Attia exercises 10 or more hours per week in the hope—with no proof—that it will actually add more years to your life than exercising 2 to 3 hours per week. If you want science-based wellness tips, pre-order my book. Link in thread.
After the birth of his first child, Dr. Peter Attia became his own first patient in a new speciality: longevity medicine. cbsn.ws/4np4Gx8
Billionaires seek out this doctor's help preparing for advanced age. Here's what he prescribes.
Dr. Peter Attia has declared war on what he calls the marginal decade, the final years of life that are often plagued by sickness and immobility.
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October 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Dr. Peter Attia exercises 10 or more hours per week in the hope—with no proof—that it will actually add more years to your life than exercising 2 to 3 hours per week. If you want science-based wellness tips, pre-order my book. Link in thread.
The moment you all have been waiting for with bated breath…..THE ZEKE BAR IS BACK.
For a limited time, the International Award Winning Zeke Bar | 62% dark chocolate with dried cherry from is now available. It won’t last long.
Purchase at the link in the comments.
#chocolate #awards #ZekeBar
For a limited time, the International Award Winning Zeke Bar | 62% dark chocolate with dried cherry from is now available. It won’t last long.
Purchase at the link in the comments.
#chocolate #awards #ZekeBar
The Zeke Bar won Bronze at the International Chocolate Awards! Finally, an award that rewards not my mind, but my taste (and an honor that maybe my grandkids will care about). Thanks for the incredible partnership, Askinosie Chocolate! Next batch coming mid-fall 2025.
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October 16, 2025 at 5:54 PM
The moment you all have been waiting for with bated breath…..THE ZEKE BAR IS BACK.
For a limited time, the International Award Winning Zeke Bar | 62% dark chocolate with dried cherry from is now available. It won’t last long.
Purchase at the link in the comments.
#chocolate #awards #ZekeBar
For a limited time, the International Award Winning Zeke Bar | 62% dark chocolate with dried cherry from is now available. It won’t last long.
Purchase at the link in the comments.
#chocolate #awards #ZekeBar
50,000 Americans could die from Medicaid and ACA coverage losses.
When costs spike like this, healthier enrollees drop coverage, which drives costs even higher.
I joined @yahoofinance.com to discuss what's at stake with ACA subsidy renewal.
When costs spike like this, healthier enrollees drop coverage, which drives costs even higher.
I joined @yahoofinance.com to discuss what's at stake with ACA subsidy renewal.
More Americans will be uninsured without ACA credits: Dr. Emanuel
The US government shutdown extends into its eighth day as Democrats leverage it to negotiate the extension of tax credits for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) — also known as Obamacare — which are set to...
finance.yahoo.com
October 13, 2025 at 7:58 PM
50,000 Americans could die from Medicaid and ACA coverage losses.
When costs spike like this, healthier enrollees drop coverage, which drives costs even higher.
I joined @yahoofinance.com to discuss what's at stake with ACA subsidy renewal.
When costs spike like this, healthier enrollees drop coverage, which drives costs even higher.
I joined @yahoofinance.com to discuss what's at stake with ACA subsidy renewal.
RFK Jr.'s claim that vaccines didn't save lives, sanitation did, is half right—and dangerously wrong.
While sanitation helped in the early 20th century, vaccines saved millions of lives in the later 20th century and reduced severe impairments like brain damage. More in @statnews.com
While sanitation helped in the early 20th century, vaccines saved millions of lives in the later 20th century and reduced severe impairments like brain damage. More in @statnews.com
RFK Jr. says vaccines don’t save lives. He’s wrong
Now RFK Jr. is claiming vaccines don’t actually save lives. Here’s the math to show what he gets wrong.
www.statnews.com
October 10, 2025 at 3:04 PM
RFK Jr.'s claim that vaccines didn't save lives, sanitation did, is half right—and dangerously wrong.
While sanitation helped in the early 20th century, vaccines saved millions of lives in the later 20th century and reduced severe impairments like brain damage. More in @statnews.com
While sanitation helped in the early 20th century, vaccines saved millions of lives in the later 20th century and reduced severe impairments like brain damage. More in @statnews.com
Stop popping supplements. Start eating food.
Ashwin Rodrigues’s piece in the @nytimes.com alarmingly reports that Americans are taking more supplements than ever before and it can hurt – rather than help – our overall health. Here's what actually works: eating real food.
Ashwin Rodrigues’s piece in the @nytimes.com alarmingly reports that Americans are taking more supplements than ever before and it can hurt – rather than help – our overall health. Here's what actually works: eating real food.
A Plea From Doctors: Cool It on the Supplements
www.nytimes.com
October 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Stop popping supplements. Start eating food.
Ashwin Rodrigues’s piece in the @nytimes.com alarmingly reports that Americans are taking more supplements than ever before and it can hurt – rather than help – our overall health. Here's what actually works: eating real food.
Ashwin Rodrigues’s piece in the @nytimes.com alarmingly reports that Americans are taking more supplements than ever before and it can hurt – rather than help – our overall health. Here's what actually works: eating real food.
My students at the University of Pennsylvania are brilliant, but they couldn't fully focus in class.
That's why I banned all technology in my classroom. No online shopping, no Instagram, no email, no internet. The results speak for themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUh...
That's why I banned all technology in my classroom. No online shopping, no Instagram, no email, no internet. The results speak for themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUh...
Unplugged: Students speak out about school bans of cellphones
YouTube video by CBS Sunday Morning
www.youtube.com
October 6, 2025 at 9:24 PM
My students at the University of Pennsylvania are brilliant, but they couldn't fully focus in class.
That's why I banned all technology in my classroom. No online shopping, no Instagram, no email, no internet. The results speak for themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUh...
That's why I banned all technology in my classroom. No online shopping, no Instagram, no email, no internet. The results speak for themselves.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkUh...
Reposted by Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD
Join us on Oct. 14, 14:00-15:00 in Alrek, @unibergen.bsky.social, for a talk with @zekeemanuel.bsky.social (@upenn.edu)on #disinformation and #trust in #science in the U.S. and beyond.
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October 3, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Join us on Oct. 14, 14:00-15:00 in Alrek, @unibergen.bsky.social, for a talk with @zekeemanuel.bsky.social (@upenn.edu)on #disinformation and #trust in #science in the U.S. and beyond.
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#Health #ethics
Public health requires investing today to protect people tomorrow.
As I shared on @vox.com, we're already seeing the damage caused by the Trump admin: Rising vaccine skepticism and preventable outbreaks. The Texas measles deaths are just the beginning. www.vox.com/today-explai...
As I shared on @vox.com, we're already seeing the damage caused by the Trump admin: Rising vaccine skepticism and preventable outbreaks. The Texas measles deaths are just the beginning. www.vox.com/today-explai...
What RFK Jr. gets wrong — and right — according to a public health expert
Zeke Emanuel on RFK Jr. and the crisis of faith in public health.
www.vox.com
September 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Public health requires investing today to protect people tomorrow.
As I shared on @vox.com, we're already seeing the damage caused by the Trump admin: Rising vaccine skepticism and preventable outbreaks. The Texas measles deaths are just the beginning. www.vox.com/today-explai...
As I shared on @vox.com, we're already seeing the damage caused by the Trump admin: Rising vaccine skepticism and preventable outbreaks. The Texas measles deaths are just the beginning. www.vox.com/today-explai...
Reposted by Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD
Read this op-ed in the @bostonglobe.com by LDI Fellow @zekeemanuel.bsky.social. ⤵️
RFK is turning the CDC into an ideological rubber stamp of the Trump admin. Congress must use their oversight power to restore qualified leadership and adequate funding to the CDC. Our children's health and our scientific credibility depend on it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
How to respond to Kennedy’s purge at the CDC - The Boston Globe
Major responsibility rests on Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who cast the pivotal vote for Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Read this op-ed in the @bostonglobe.com by LDI Fellow @zekeemanuel.bsky.social. ⤵️
Reposted by Zeke Emanuel, MD, PhD
In a new @nytopinion.nytimes.com essay, Team Scientist @zekeemanuel.bsky.social draws from behavioral science and his own teaching experience to argue that removing phones from classrooms can make students more focused and classes more effective.
https://nyti.ms/4myDcW3
https://nyti.ms/4myDcW3
September 11, 2025 at 7:11 PM
In a new @nytopinion.nytimes.com essay, Team Scientist @zekeemanuel.bsky.social draws from behavioral science and his own teaching experience to argue that removing phones from classrooms can make students more focused and classes more effective.
https://nyti.ms/4myDcW3
https://nyti.ms/4myDcW3
As a professor, I'd give MAHA a "C." Success: spotlighting phones' harm to kids, chronic illness/food connections. Problems: vaccine skepticism (2 children died from measles), questionable supplements, and little real action on healthy food subsidies. My thoughts in @thefp.com ⬇️
Zeke Emanuel, Emily Oster, Alex Berenson, Mark Hyman, and Jillian Michaels weigh in. Plus: Trump tests the limits, Coleman Hughes talks to Ben Shapiro, and more.
RFK Jr. Promised to Make America Healthy Again. Is It Working?
Zeke Emanuel, Emily Oster, Alex Berenson, Mark Hyman, and Jillian Michaels weigh in. Plus: Trump tests the limits, Coleman Hughes talks to Ben Shapiro, and more.
bit.ly
September 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
As a professor, I'd give MAHA a "C." Success: spotlighting phones' harm to kids, chronic illness/food connections. Problems: vaccine skepticism (2 children died from measles), questionable supplements, and little real action on healthy food subsidies. My thoughts in @thefp.com ⬇️
RFK is turning the CDC into an ideological rubber stamp of the Trump admin. Congress must use their oversight power to restore qualified leadership and adequate funding to the CDC. Our children's health and our scientific credibility depend on it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
How to respond to Kennedy’s purge at the CDC - The Boston Globe
Major responsibility rests on Republican Senator Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, who cast the pivotal vote for Kennedy’s confirmation as HHS secretary.
www.bostonglobe.com
September 4, 2025 at 5:50 PM
RFK is turning the CDC into an ideological rubber stamp of the Trump admin. Congress must use their oversight power to restore qualified leadership and adequate funding to the CDC. Our children's health and our scientific credibility depend on it.
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/04/o...
Because of Florida's decision to phase out childhood vaccine mandates, many will die of preventable diseases like measles, chickenpox, tetanus, and diphtheria. This is regressive, bringing us back to the early 1950s when parents had to worry that their kids might die from diseases like polio.
Florida will work to eliminate all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, officials say
Florida will work to phase out all childhood vaccine mandates in the state, building on the effort by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to curb vaccine requirements and other health mandates during the Cov...
www.statnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Because of Florida's decision to phase out childhood vaccine mandates, many will die of preventable diseases like measles, chickenpox, tetanus, and diphtheria. This is regressive, bringing us back to the early 1950s when parents had to worry that their kids might die from diseases like polio.
There's a deadly condition killing Americans: healthcare churn.
15-20% of Americans lose coverage yearly due to job changes. Insurers won't invest in prevention if patients will switch next year. I explain how to fix this crisis in @statnews.com.
#MAHA #ACA www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/h...
15-20% of Americans lose coverage yearly due to job changes. Insurers won't invest in prevention if patients will switch next year. I explain how to fix this crisis in @statnews.com.
#MAHA #ACA www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/h...
How churn threatens Americans’ health
Churn creates underinvestment in keeping Americans healthy, write Ezekiel J. Emanuel and John A. Graves.
www.statnews.com
September 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
There's a deadly condition killing Americans: healthcare churn.
15-20% of Americans lose coverage yearly due to job changes. Insurers won't invest in prevention if patients will switch next year. I explain how to fix this crisis in @statnews.com.
#MAHA #ACA www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/h...
15-20% of Americans lose coverage yearly due to job changes. Insurers won't invest in prevention if patients will switch next year. I explain how to fix this crisis in @statnews.com.
#MAHA #ACA www.statnews.com/2025/09/03/h...
New in @bmj.com Global Health: four fallacies that undermined COVID/mpox resource allocation, and the solutions we need now. With $700M+ in vaccine contracts cancelled, we must avoid repeating past mistakes in the next pandemic.
gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
Avoiding four fallacies in the fair allocation of influenza countermeasures
Since first detected in 1996, the highly pathogenic H5N1 ‘bird influenza’ has been perennially widespread in wild birds and poultry worldwide. Outbreaks among cattle in the USA and recent infections i...
gh.bmj.com
September 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM
New in @bmj.com Global Health: four fallacies that undermined COVID/mpox resource allocation, and the solutions we need now. With $700M+ in vaccine contracts cancelled, we must avoid repeating past mistakes in the next pandemic.
gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
gh.bmj.com/content/10/8...
My students gave me the best reviews in 13 years, but I didn't change my teaching. I just banned phones and laptops from my class. In the @nytimes.com, I explain how this approach made students more engaged with my class: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...
Opinion | Here’s What Happened When I Made My College Students Put Away Their Phones
www.nytimes.com
August 21, 2025 at 1:44 PM
My students gave me the best reviews in 13 years, but I didn't change my teaching. I just banned phones and laptops from my class. In the @nytimes.com, I explain how this approach made students more engaged with my class: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/o...