Luke Davis, MD
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Physician & epidemiologist at the Yale School of Public Health. Passions are global health, sports, and supporting the next generation. Opinions my own.
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Check out the closing sessions on the 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research website and catch all of the recordings on YouTube!

👉 saveaidsresearch.org

👉 www.youtube.com/live/C3wxhML...

#EndHIV #EndTB #24HoursToSaveAIDSResearch

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24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
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Was pleased to kick off Hour 22 of the 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research this morning with host and my friend and Yale colleague Jeffrey Wickersham, talking about TB-HIV implementation science.

Thanks to all the organizers for an amazing celebration of the transformative impact of HIV research
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🎉✨👏 Welcome to a new academic year in the Department of Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases at the Yale School of Public Health! We’re excited to continue learning, collaborating, and advancing public health together.
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That science will be on display during the 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research event, starting Sept 16 at 11a EDT. I'll be speaking about progress in HIV-TB research on Sept 17 at 8a

👉 Other speakers & highlights here: saveaidsresearch.org#schedule

Spread the word!

#HIV #PublicHealth #Research
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The research driving those gains is now threatened, despite the fact that HIV research has had far ranging impacts on numerous fields byond HIV, from immunology and virology, to clinical medicine and public health, to regulatory policy and practice. 🦠 🔬 🏥
24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
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📣 Over the past 40+ years, the HIV/AIDS community - led by people living with HIV, their families, friends, and loved ones, and supported by clinicians, researchers, funders, and policymakers - has saved literally millions of lives, a modern miracle of medicine, public health, and advocacy.
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👏 Proud of my Yale colleagues Gregg Gonsalves and Jeff Wickersham for helping organize this important event. Grateful for their strong and consistent leadership in advancing HIV/AIDS research and public health!

#EndHIV #PublicHealth #Research @gregggonsalves.bsky.social
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🔬 24 Hours to Save AIDS Research
📅 Sept 16 | 11:00 ET → Sept 17 | 11:00 ET

For 40+ years, HIV/AIDS research has saved tens of millions of lives. Now, funding cuts threaten to undo that progress.

On Sept 16, scientists, researchers & advocates worldwide will gather for 24 hours....
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Morgan completed her MD/PhD at UNC Chapel Hill and came to Yale through the Internal Medicine (IM) Physician Scientist Training Program. Now in the Infectious Diseases (ID) fellowship, she is mentored by EMD faculty Dr. Sunil Parikh and Dr. Amy Bei.

👉 Learn more here: lnkd.in/dgEvDxRT
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🥳📢 Introducing the EMD Postdoc Spotlight series!

Dr. Morgan Goheen is a postdoctoral fellow in the Parikh and Bei Labs, whose research investigates the impact of human antimalarials ingested by mosquitoes feeding on people taking these drugs, parasite development, and selection within the vector.
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In honor of Hepatitis Awareness Month and Hepatitis Testing Day on May 19, we’re proud to share an insightful article by Yiyun (Patricia) Pan, MPH/MBA, a recent graduate of the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Management.

🔗 Read her full article here: lnkd.in/ehxReXUu
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The Yale Center for Methods in Implementation and Prevention Science (CMIPS) conducts cutting edge implementation research and offers advanced training at MPH, MS, PhD, and post-doctoral fellow level Learn more through the videos and web links below!
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➡️ Supporting people with TB to adhere to medications and complete treatment
➡️ Encouraging screening and prevention among close
➡️ Fighting stigma against people with TB in all its forms

#ENDTB #WorldTBDay
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Therefore, together with communities around the world, clinicians, public health practitioners, and policymakers must do more, including

➡️ Educating people about TB symptoms & diagnosis
➡️ Raising awareness treatment is usually curative & free in most places once accessed
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Yet with 1/4 of the world's rapidly growing population TB infected - over 2 billion people - the absolute number of people who will progress from infection to active TB disease every year is huge and continues to grow.

On World TB Day 2025, that's an unhappy 😒 fact that we must also face.
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📣 Against current uncertainties for TB control and elimination, the global community 🌍 can look back on 2 decades of remarkable progress in the fight against TB 🏥, as TB incidence rates have fallen by 25% and TB death rates by 50%. The millions of lives saved is truly something to be happy 😃 about!
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Happy World TB Day! 🙌

Today, we have EMD MPH student Cenyun Guan at @yalesph.bsky.social to discuss the current tuberculosis (TB) situation and the urgent need to raise public awareness and further invest to end TB.

Read more here! ysph.yale.edu/news-article...

#PublicHealth
#WorldTBDay
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My colleague Gregg Gonsalves tells of the enormous human cost when South African leaders denied the existence of HIV & how South Africans responded by taking back science for themselves. "Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat it."

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.
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6/👉Contextual factors influencing bubble continuous positive airway pressure implementation for paediatric respiratory distress in low-income and middle-income countries: a realist review. The Lancet Global Health
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#GlobalHealth #bCPAP #impsci
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5/ These findings provide a roadmap for future research to adapt bCPAP interventions and design context-sensitive implementation strategies. Our goal? Ensure bCPAP is used safely and effectively to save lives, no matter the context.🌍
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4/ Using a realist, theory-driven approach, we developed a program theory identifying 18 contextual factors and mechanisms across 5 levels: 1️⃣ bCPAP device 2️⃣ Local partnerships & infrastructure 3️⃣ Clinical & technical teams 4️⃣ Caregivers & community 5️⃣ Institutional practices
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3/ Our review sought to understand how implementation context influences bCPAP outcomes. Past reviews suggested context-dependence but lacked a theory-driven framework.
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2/ Previous studies on bCPAP for children with respiratory distress showed mixed results. While it reduced mortality in some cases, a major trial highlighted increased mortality for kids with severe pneumonia. Why the disparity? Context matters.
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New research out from Dr. Nadir Ijaz of the Yale School of Medicine on bCPAP implementation

1/ bCPAP therapy has shown promise in saving children’s lives in LMICs, but its success often depends on context. 🧵