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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

This work will hopefully eventually allow all Nunavik communities to benefit from wastewater surveillance and have better tailored #PublicHealth interventions for all kinds of disease including outbreak prone infections, seasonal infections, regional challenges like TB, etc.

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

This week Judith Maréchal @ulaval.ca, Felix Addo @uottawa.ca, and Jacquelyn Yushkov @mcgillspgh.bsky.social worked hard with Billy Watt and all the drivers in the Kuujjuaq team to try out a new sampler and collect wastewater for analysis.
Photos by Judith Maréchal.

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

Nevertheless sampling in Nunavik is complex: most communities do not have piped sewer systems and sampling requires collecting from wastewater trucks.
It's great to be working with Stéphanie Guilherme @ulaval.ca and Robert Delatolla @uottawa.ca to develop methods for effective sampling!

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

Wastewater surveillance offers a few advantages:
• It doesn’t depend on individual testing uptake
• Can highlight silent transmission early
• Offers population-level data without stigma

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

Nunavik continues to face an unacceptably high burden of #tuberculosis with rates hundreds of times higher than elsewhere in the country. Improving early detection is key to effective outbreak response and wastewater could offer a complementary tool to act earlier.
#EndTB

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · Jun 21

Nice timely coverage by @radiocanadainfo.bsky.social of work on #WastewaterSurveillance in Nunavik!
This public health tool allows a new way of generating information about the health of the population in the region and informing #PublicHealth interventions.
ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/217...

Tester les eaux usées pour lutter contre la tuberculose

Des équipes de chercheurs se sont unies dans un projet d’analyse des eaux usées des villages du Nunavik, pour lutter contre la tuberculose.

ici.radio-canada.ca

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 23

@helenclarknz.bsky.social and @drmarianeira.bsky.social discusshe clean air from and describe the economic case for investing: being sick prevents people from working, it costs a lot to health system.
#WHA78.
@who.int @gchalliance.bsky.social @cleanairfund.bsky.social

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Sara Silverstein @sarasilverstein.bsky.social · May 21

As you follow news from #WHA78, read @craigspencer.bsky.social's essay (from March) on the effects of US withdrawal from global health.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The Diseases Are Coming

Elon Musk’s slash-and-burn government tear will have lasting effects on global health.

www.theatlantic.com

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 22

Nice #micdrops from the conversation on #PlanetaryHealth organized by the WHO youth Council: should we be concerned that the US pulled out of the #ParisAgreement?
The US wasn't the most proactive before; what if we don't care?
#WHA78

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 22

Emma Rawson-Te Patu #WFPHA answers key questions at side event on #PlanetaryHealth in few word but much wisdom: "What is the ultimate driver of environmental degradation?": it is the way in which we behave!
#WHA78

Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 22

@eloisetodd.bsky.social @panaction.bsky.social describes that we should work in a networked approach to identify on the one hand what the best solutions would be and use another type of expertise to identify the politically viable way to get there. #wha78 #GlobalHealth

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 22

@drmarianeira.bsky.social words of wisdom during event on #PlanetaryHealth in geopolitical crises: "TBS: take them by surprise" and "don't accept the unacceptable"!
#WHA78
@who.int @panaction.bsky.social

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 22

Exciting book launch by @pritipatnaik.bsky.social @genevahealthfiles.bsky.social: Negotiating Equity, Amendments to the IHR.
Very timely with the upcoming entry into force of the lastest #IHR amendment and the adoption of the #PandemicAccord.
#WHA78 #GlobalHealth #IDsky

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Laura Jung @laurajng.bsky.social · May 22

Impressive Launch of the #BreakFossilFuelInfluence Campaign for fossil-free health communications 📰 by @gchalliance.bsky.social on the sidelines of #WHA78.
⏰️Time for health to take a stand against misinformation & pollution!
@influencemap.bsky.social

🖋 climateandhealthalliance.org/what-we-do/m...

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 21

Luan Vo speaks on the importance of resourcing community engagement to #EndTB during side event at #WHA78. He also describes the work of the @who.int #CSTFTB.
#PublicHealth #GlobalHealth

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 20

Theresa Tam, #Canada CPHO, speaks at #WHA78 about #SHD and health equity and puts the focus on indigenous populations and health data ownership and control.
#GlobalHealth

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WHO @who.int · May 19

WHO Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the #WHA78, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of a historic global compact to make the world safer from future pandemics.

Read: bit.ly/4kjM6p4

Member States approve WHO Pandemic Agreement in World Health Assembly Committee, paving way for its formal adoption

World Health Organization Member States, meeting today in Committee A of the World Health Assembly, approved a resolution that calls for the adoption of an historic global compact to make the world sa...

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Ed Maibach @maibached.bsky.social · May 20

A giant leap for mankind (except for Americans because we’d rather live in a world of MAHA make believe).

www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

World agrees pandemic accord for tackling outbreaks of disease

Hailed as ‘a victory for public health,’ the agreement aims to build on the lessons of Covid-19 and protect the globe from pathogenic threats

www.theguardian.com

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social · May 20

📢 BREAKING NEWS: @who.int member states formally adopt pandemic treaty

But what more needs to be done to prepare for the next #pandemic? 😷

LSHTM experts give their views: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

#PublicHealth @lshtmcepr.bsky.social

“Without clear financial provisions, LMICs may face increased debt or be forced to divert funding from other essential health services to meet treaty obligations.” Daniela Manno, Clinical Assistant Professor, LSHTM

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Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD @nschwalbe.bsky.social · May 20

💯 In a word? Adopted.

🦠 The Pandemic Treaty was just unanimously adopted by the World Health Assembly.

💊💉Bravo world. You did the right thing.

apps.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf...

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · May 20

It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly!

My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer.

What a moment in global health history. Together!

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 20

@who.int plenary adopts the #PandemicAccord!
We now have a new tool in the global health toolbox, and hopefully we will manage to make the best of it!
There is a lot of work between now and full implementation, not the least negotiating the #PABS instrument!
#GlobalHealth @mcgillghp.bsky.social

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 20

Nice tool, still learning how some of the stuff here on #bsky works: what's the difference between a starter pack and a list?

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Katri Bertram @katribertram.bsky.social · May 20

A new wave of #globalhealth @bsky.app joiners - welcome 👋 and I assume you’re trying this out for #WHA78.
I keep a Global Health list (public in my tabs), it’s a great way to follow specific issues and happy to share and recommend everyone there too. Less overwhelming than starter packs.

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Yassen Tcholakov @yassentch.bsky.social · May 20

@nschwalbe.bsky.social the work on the #PandemicAccord is like a triathlon: we've almost finished the swim (treaty negotiations), but then we still have the bike ride (PABS negotiation), and the run (ratification and implementation).
#WHA78

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