Michelle Tam
@michelletam.bsky.social
Postdoc @hsph.harvard.edu & @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social | queer health, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, mixed-methods | she/her
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📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue.
In our latest research pub:
LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers.
📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth
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In our latest research pub:
LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers.
📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth
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Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts
This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.
jamanetwork.com
May 6, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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April 2, 2025 at 7:52 PM
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH
Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸
Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social
Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇
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🧬 Key scientific leaders are being removed! 🧬
NIH directors—known for their expertise and institutional knowledge—are being ousted
Result?
✅Undermines public health
✅Erodes scientific integrity
✅Risks unchecked actions
A short 🧵
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#NIH #CDC #FDA #AcademicSky #MedSky #Science
NIH directors—known for their expertise and institutional knowledge—are being ousted
Result?
✅Undermines public health
✅Erodes scientific integrity
✅Risks unchecked actions
A short 🧵
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#NIH #CDC #FDA #AcademicSky #MedSky #Science
On health economist Jay Bhattacharya’s first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), the chiefs of four of the 27 institutes and centres that make up his agency were removed from their posts.
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
https://go.nature.com/3QZ8GGT
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs
In shock move, four institute directors at the US biomedical agency are removed from their posts.
go.nature.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying.
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks.
From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY
March 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.
The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The situation at the NIH and for all biomedical and cancer cure research in the United States is MUCH MUCH WORSE than you realize.
Ruining studies and potentially harming research subjects...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Abruptly terminating clinical trials...
Ignorant and evil
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
March 28, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.
The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.
That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇
Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍
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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍
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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
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March 25, 2025 at 10:21 AM
🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇
Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍
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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍
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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
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truly devastating degree of cuts to LGBTQ+ health research last week - grateful to @bostonglobe.com for covering this and the negative impacts it will have on queer communities here in Mass
#episky
#medsky
#episky
#medsky
‘It breaks my heart’: New wave of cuts to NIH research grants hit Mass. hard - The Boston Globe
Fenway Health lost five grants in one day.
www.bostonglobe.com
March 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
truly devastating degree of cuts to LGBTQ+ health research last week - grateful to @bostonglobe.com for covering this and the negative impacts it will have on queer communities here in Mass
#episky
#medsky
#episky
#medsky
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How can you support our LGBTQ+ health equity research? 1. Pledging to donate (or learn more): hsph.me/lgbtq-give
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March 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
How can you support our LGBTQ+ health equity research? 1. Pledging to donate (or learn more): hsph.me/lgbtq-give
2. Subscribe to our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20012...
3. Follow us and share
#SupportLGBTQ #HealthEquity
2. Subscribe to our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20012...
3. Follow us and share
#SupportLGBTQ #HealthEquity
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ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health
Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.
abcnews.go.com
March 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth