Proud of my colleague Katie Loth for writing and sharing this important essay - when we stop measuring food insecurity, that doesn't make the problem go away.
www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

"we spent more than 100 years working at the C.D.C...We served under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations...we did not always agree with our leaders, but they never gave us reason to doubt that they would rely on data-driven insights for our protection."
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF).

This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

"In these first few months after arrival, I have become, in many ways, an intern again."

Esther Johnston, MD, MPH (@esthermjohnston.bsky.social) reflects on the challenges and opportunities that come with professional change.

"Everything Old Is New Again": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

#PrimaryCare #FamMed #FMSky #FMRevolution #MedicalEducation #MedSky #MedEd

A tribute to colleagues who have been so supportive as I learned the ropes in a new place this year, & to all the learners who juggle the cognitive load of trying to master new systems while bringing their best selves to their patients encounters, each & every day:
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The call for abstracts is now open for the North America Conference to End Race Based Medicine, which will be FREE to attend and held in Detroit October 17-18, 2025. Submissions are encouraged from students, residents, fellows and faculty from all disciplines.
#academicsky #medsky
bit.ly/NACERM2025

Concerning on so many levels: that peer reviewers are farming out a critical role in ensuring academic integrity to AI (recognizing the broken system of academic publishing that => overloaded peer reviewers) & that this shortcut is so easily subverted. #Academicsky
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An excellent article by Martin Msukwa and Isaac Ntwiga of @seedglobalhealth.bsky.social summarizing some of the key barriers to recruitment and retention of health care workers in countries with HCW shortages, and needed policy solutions.
www.europesays.com/2147801/

The MAHA report, promoted by RFK Jr. as “gold-standard science,” is riddled with bogus citations:
⭐️ 7 studies don’t exist — one author: “The paper cited is not a real paper.”
⭐️ Key conclusions misquoted
⭐️ One study exists only in the report
⭐️ Dozens more have broken links #BlueSky #Medasky #SciSky

In this editorial, a group of family medicine global health practitioners based in South Africa, India, and the United States collectively reflect on the question, “What should lie at the heart of global health partnerships in family medicine?”

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May's special global health issue of Family Medicine attracted submissions from around the world, reflecting collaborations and partnerships between family physicians and colleagues.

Read the editorial from Cindy Haq, MD, and Esther Johnston, MD, MPH: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

Interest in training opportunities and ethical engagement in global health among medical trainees continues to increase. Preparation activities and formal curriculum for trainees traveling for international rotations vary widely across programs: journals.stfm.org/primer/2025/...

9/ This isn't about whether you need a booster. It’s about how vaccine decisions are made—and who gets to make them. Americans deserve public health policy grounded in evidence, transparency, and debate—not declarations from two contrarians with an agenda.

RFK Jr. celebrated on Sunday by taking shirtless selfies and swimming in an E. coli-ridden, sewage-infested creek where swimming, notably, has been banned by the National Park Service, thanks to the whole...poop water issue.

I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Deeply proud to have served as a guest editor of this special global issue of Family Medicine; & grateful to my colleagues who contributed their writing & research, & served as peer reviewers. May we never stop engaging as a global community in our shared learning.
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“If a pact is formed, the universities shall “commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund”. The fund will be in turn used to provide “immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement.”

#defendhighered

Re-introducing ourselves: IHJM was born out of a desire to facilitate national movements, to re-imagine a new medicine that ends racism in clinical algorithms and builds on the work of advocates before us. We envision an interdisciplinary hub - a community, research epicenter, and dialogue space.

"When I finished my PhD in Immunology and Microbiology I started working at CDC NIOSH in Morgantown...to understand diseases that were being seen in coal miners...The type of research that we were doing is not being done anywhere else in the world. And now it’s not being done at all."
bit.ly/3YioisS

Calling all family medicine colleagues: the Atai Omorutu Award supports African women doctors, particularly early career physicians, to attend the World Organization of Family Doctors meeting. We kindly ask for your support of this initiative: bit.ly/4hXCFtS
#PrimaryCare #FamMed #FMSky #FMRevolution