Kathy Lancaster, PhD, MPH
@prof-klancaster.bsky.social
Epidemiologist & Implementation Scientist | Associate Professor | @wakeforestmed | Global health | #UNCAlum 🐏 | #TulaneAlmuni 🌊 | She/Her | Views are my own
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We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩🏫
August 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩🏫
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With hearings today, ICYMI: me and @nathancortez.bsky.social discussed in @jama.com how the FDA layoffs undermine its many statutory obligations & pose risks for public health, innovation, and every one of us. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
May 14, 2025 at 12:08 PM
With hearings today, ICYMI: me and @nathancortez.bsky.social discussed in @jama.com how the FDA layoffs undermine its many statutory obligations & pose risks for public health, innovation, and every one of us. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
April 16, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....
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The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.
April 1, 2025 at 12:46 AM
The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.
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Just a quick reminder from my colleague Dr. Tara McKay: inclusion of #women and #minorities in research is still federal law ( #PublicHealth & Welfare, amended 2007 ).
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March 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Just a quick reminder from my colleague Dr. Tara McKay: inclusion of #women and #minorities in research is still federal law ( #PublicHealth & Welfare, amended 2007 ).
www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
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"Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08% of the budget."
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
All to save 0.08% of the budget."
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.
www.vox.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
"Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08% of the budget."
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
All to save 0.08% of the budget."
www.vox.com/future-perfe...
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In high prevalence areas voluntary adult male circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring HIV through sex by up to 60%. This has been proven in multiple clinical trials & implemented in East + South Africa as a strategy to reduce new HIV infections. It is not a scam.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Trump says 'male circumcision in Mozambique' is a 'scam.' What's the program about?
In his Tuesday address to Congress, President Trump listed U.S.-funded programs that he considers an "appalling waste" — including "$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique."
www.npr.org
March 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
In high prevalence areas voluntary adult male circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring HIV through sex by up to 60%. This has been proven in multiple clinical trials & implemented in East + South Africa as a strategy to reduce new HIV infections. It is not a scam.
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
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More than a quarter million people deprived of #HIV treatment by termination notices to @egpaf.bsky.social
Late yesterday, we received award termination notices for three of our primary USAID agreements.
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
February 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
More than a quarter million people deprived of #HIV treatment by termination notices to @egpaf.bsky.social
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Late yesterday, we received award termination notices for three of our primary USAID agreements.
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
February 27, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Late yesterday, we received award termination notices for three of our primary USAID agreements.
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...
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NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article)
Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.
www.nytimes.com
February 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
February 15, 2025 at 2:29 PM
If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.
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🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal
In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...
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February 12, 2025 at 12:10 PM
🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
www.bmj.com/content/388/...
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#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
MSF is calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.
www.doctorswithoutborders.org
February 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...
Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk
www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/uncer...
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Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget and helps millions! Elon Musk is lying to you. Spread the word tonight as he buys $40M in ads at the Super Bowl to try to convince you otherwise. Stop Musk. Help millions.
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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February 9, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget and helps millions! Elon Musk is lying to you. Spread the word tonight as he buys $40M in ads at the Super Bowl to try to convince you otherwise. Stop Musk. Help millions.
youtu.be/PqUESHfuO_8
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February 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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If you go back 100 years, the leading cause of death, by far, was infectious disease. What changed that? "Vaccination," NIH chief Dr Monica Bertagnolli tells House Appropriations hearing appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...
Hearing - National Institutes of Health (NIH)
appropriations.house.gov
November 19, 2024 at 4:01 PM
If you go back 100 years, the leading cause of death, by far, was infectious disease. What changed that? "Vaccination," NIH chief Dr Monica Bertagnolli tells House Appropriations hearing appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...
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A new hero! US Rep. Rosa DeLauro, to the NIH director in today's hearing.
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
November 19, 2024 at 8:19 PM
A new hero! US Rep. Rosa DeLauro, to the NIH director in today's hearing.
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...
"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjbv...