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Jocalyn Clark
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International Editor, The BMJ. Former editor The Lancet, icddr,b and PLOS Medicine. Adjunct faculty UofT and UCL. 🇨🇦 in 🇬🇧. Views mine.

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Jocalyn Clark is a Canadian public health scientist. She is the international editor of The BMJ, and has responsibility for strategy and internationalising the journal's content, contributors and coverage. From 2016 to 2022, Jocalyn was an executive editor at The Lancet, where she led the Commentary section, coordinated peer review, and edited and delivered collections of articles and commissions on topics such as maternal and child health, oral health, migration, end of life care and gender equity. She led the Lancet's project to advance women in science, medicine, and global health, #LancetWomen. She is also an adjunct professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto and an Honorary Associate Professor at the Institute for Global Health at UCL. .. more

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 7h
Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 10h
And to the rest of us. #globalhealthsecurity
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 10h
🇺🇸 Almost unbelievable that the powers-that-be in the US would imperil their country, the health of the nation. their economy, and the rest of us with these decisions gutting CDC.
Massacre is apt.
Impossible to recover from.
What a bunch of boneheads. What a world.
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 19h
We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 11h
This guy is now effectively doing MBS propaganda for free, making out that what what needs to change in Saudi Arabia is the general culture, rather than the specific ruling regime. Once again, petrodollars buy us a fascinating case study in motivated reasoning.

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I have been criticised for being part of the Riyadh comedy festival. This is why I did it | Omid Djalili
The headlines focus on money, but the gigs were great and I think there are different ways to achieve progress. Art, especially comedy, can be part of that, says stand-up comedian, Omid Djalili.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 13h
“The growing movement around women’s health innovation is to be welcomed. But to be genuinely transformative, it must be political”

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Upending women’s health
This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks o...
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Jeremy Faust, MD @jeremyfaust.bsky.social · 19h
We have breaking news in Inside Medicine.

We had heard rumors of RIFs to CDC.

But this is the first visual confirmation that it has occurred tonight, and at high levels in the agency.

Here is what we know...and then some well-sourced rumors (but rumors, nonetheless, not confirmed) 🧵...
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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 20h
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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World Peace Foundation @worldpeacefdtn.bsky.social · 1d
In honor of today's announcement, Alex de Waal proposes that the Nobel committee does not award the Nobel Peace prize in 2026. Nor next year, nor the year after, not until world leaders get serious about peace. And that would not an unprecedented act.

Read more here: shorturl.at/DCwOg
Peace is the Prize: Why this Year’s Nobel Award Should be the Last - World Peace Foundation
Author Alex de Waal proposes that Nobel committee does not award the prize until world leaders get serious about peace.
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 1d
That makes you the vixen! 😉
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 1d
NEW: The BMJ Collection on Women’s Health Innovation, developed w/ @gatesfoundation.bsky.social is now live
www.bmj.com/collections/...

@jocalynclark.bsky.social is in Berlin this week for the Gates Foundation Innovation Equity Forum & #WHS2025 to highlight the Collection’s insights #GlobalHealth
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Reuters @reuters.com · 1d
'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize
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Nature @nature.com · 2d
Of the 202 Nobel laureates who have been awarded prizes in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize.

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More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys
The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.
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ODI Global @odi.global · 2d
With official aid is shrinking, can philanthropy fill the gap? Or is it time to rethink the system entirely?

A new episode of our #ThinkChangePodcast asks how development cooperation must evolve in a changing world. 🎧
Think Change episode 82: From aid to alliances – how should development cooperation evolve?
This episode examines the evolving role of philanthropy in shaping global development cooperation at a time when official aid is under strain.
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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 2d
I welcome President Trump's announcement about the ceasefire in #Gaza & hostage release. It is a big step towards lasting peace for both Israelis & Palestinians. I hope all parties will respect the agreement, so the suffering of all civilians finally ends & all hostages are brought home respectfully
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 4d
🇺🇸 The plans laid out in the new US #globalhealth strategy depend on credibility the Trump administration does not have, write Larry Gostin & Steve Morrison in @bmj.com
Promise and gaps in America First strategy for global health
Plans are based on credibility the Trump administration does not have Just before the 2025 UN General Assembly, US secretary of state Marco Rubio released the America First Global Health Strategy .1 ...
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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 4d
"TBI is not advocating for building that capacity within the NHS. They are saying: let’s outsource to our buddies.”

"I’m an African, I have lived experience, and I’m saying these things, but I wasn’t being listened to. You have to downplay those negative things...”

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 4d
Finally someone digs into the problematic conflicts of interest baked into the business model of Tony Blair Institute.

TB's "trademark evangelism is now focused on AI, its power to transform government & why everyone should listen to Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle" (and the head of EIT).
Blair and the Billionaire
Insiders reveal how Larry Ellison’s money turned Blair’s institute into a tech sales and lobbying operation for Oracle
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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 4d
Incredibly dangerous for a senior politician to suggest that there's some zero-sum game to be played between mourning the losses of Oct7 and protesting an ongoing genocide. And incredibly cynical given that the protests are directed at his own complicity

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Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’
Prime minister urges students not to protest on the second anniversary of Hamas’s 7 October attacks on Israel
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WomenLift Health @womenlifthealth.bsky.social · 5d
🎯 Last chance to register!

The future of leadership isn’t about titles—it’s about authenticity.

Join WomenLift Health North America for a free workshop to discover how to lead as the truest and most impactful version of yourself.

🔗 bit.ly/4gX1abN
📅 Oct 8 | 10AM PT / 1PM ET
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Council of Canadian Academies/Conseil des académies canadiennes @cca-reports.ca · 5d
Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 for their groundbreaking discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance that prevents the immune system from harming the body. www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medic...
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2025 was awarded to Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi “for their discoveries concerning peripheral immune tolerance.”
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Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) @mmv.org · 5d
Africa’s first-ever Phase 3 adaptive platform trial of #malaria treatments in early pregnancy has enrolled its first patient in Mali – a landmark moment for the SAFIRE consortium conducting the trial. 

Press release 👉 bit.ly/4hbmURr

#SAFIRE4MalariaInPregnancy
First patient enrolled in historic Phase 3 clinical trial to treat malaria in first-trimester pregnancy | Medicines for Malaria Venture
A major milestone in Africa’s first-ever study assessing malaria treatments in early pregnancy.
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 6d
They largely want the studios & sports and don’t care about the news org. In fact, they would love it gone. Why? Because rich men, especially tech men, think they deserve no criticism and also need constant fluffing. They value a mirrortocracy over a meritocracy and welcome a mediocrity.
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 7d
Men Are Losing Faith in Science www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o... @adamfrank4.bsky.social🙏

"Framing science as a debate to be won makes it easy to paint established scientists as opponents..."

Manosphere BS "based on profound ignorance & a disinterest in even the most basic scientific principles..."
Opinion | Why Young Men Are Losing Faith in Science
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@valeryridde @valeryridde.bsky.social · 7d
« Unlike domestic political parties, WHO staff cannot remove a Director-General directly. Nevertheless, their coordinated expression of no confidence is a critical early warning signal to member states »
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[Update] A No-Confidence Motion at World Health Organization: The Real Crisis is Leadership [GUEST ESSAY]
Newsletter Edition #304 [The Files Flash]
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 7d
MSF staff are universally understood to be engaged in an essentially sacred form of work. For a state to nonetheless continuously murder them is a testament to a truly unthinkable degree of depravity.

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This morning, an attack carried out by Israeli forces killed Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) staff member, Omar Hayek, and seriously injured four others. The attack took place on a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to the MSF field hospital in Deir al Balah, Gaza. All staff were wearing MSF vests, clearly identifying them as medical humanitarian workers. We express deep sorrow and outrage over the killing, which occurs less than two weeks after another MSF colleague, Hussein Alnajjar, was killed by the Israeli forces, in Deir Al Balah. Our thoughts are with Omar’s family and colleagues at this tragic time. Omar, 42 years old, is the fourteenth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since 7 October 2023.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 8d
"The MAGA methodologists are unchecked: their hubris extends to believing that they know best about science and medicine."

The cult of MAGA methodology is out of control, and it’s causing harm, writes @kamranabbasi.bsky.social in this Editor's Choice
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University Affairs | Affaires universitaires @universityaffairs.bsky.social · 9d
🚨 Academic freedom in jeopardy. Yukiko Asada resigned from the NIH and calls on Canada to support at-risk scholars.

➡️ Read her open letter: http://bit.ly/4mG7UMb

#HigherEd #AcademicFreedom #ResearchIntegrity
Help scientists ousted by America’s attack on knowledge  - University Affairs
An open letter to leaders of higher education in Canada.
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The BMJ @bmj.com · 9d
Despite regulation, commercial sunbeds remain popular with young people and indoor tanning is experiencing a boom in popularity.

An outright ban of sunbeds is likely to be cost effective for the NHS, says this Analysis
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