Melinda Munos
@mmunos.bsky.social
Epidemiologist in Baltimore. Maternal, newborn, child health & nutrition. Spend my time thinking about measurement and program evaluation. Opinions my own.
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Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
February 4, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Due to the freeze on credit card use, my laboratory (in the FDA) risks losing the contents of our liquid nitrogen tanks which store INVALUABLE samples-they cannot be replaced, so they are literally priceless, and reflect about 50 years worth of research.
This is appalling. These workers have devoted their careers to improving health at local, national, global levels and they’re being demonized and threatened by racists.
February 5, 2025 at 3:18 AM
This is appalling. These workers have devoted their careers to improving health at local, national, global levels and they’re being demonized and threatened by racists.
Ugh, I’m sorry. I was wondering about GHSP. We’re going to see a lot of knock on effects if USAID funding isn’t restored.
February 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Ugh, I’m sorry. I was wondering about GHSP. We’re going to see a lot of knock on effects if USAID funding isn’t restored.
GHSP is funded by USAID. It also doesn’t charge APCs and is open access, which is particularly important for global health work.
February 5, 2025 at 1:54 AM
GHSP is funded by USAID. It also doesn’t charge APCs and is open access, which is particularly important for global health work.
Many academics are at "soft money" institutions where they are expected to pay 80-100% of their salary through grants - and this includes tenure track faculty. Pausing grants means people will lose their jobs.
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Many academics are at "soft money" institutions where they are expected to pay 80-100% of their salary through grants - and this includes tenure track faculty. Pausing grants means people will lose their jobs.
And they will be disproportionally poor, disproportionally disabled, disproportionally from marginalized groups. That is what stop-work orders and NIH freezes and putting USAID leadership on leave (and criminalizing abortion) do.
January 28, 2025 at 4:30 AM
And they will be disproportionally poor, disproportionally disabled, disproportionally from marginalized groups. That is what stop-work orders and NIH freezes and putting USAID leadership on leave (and criminalizing abortion) do.