Dr. Maryam Khalid

DrPH, MPH | Health Systems + strategy enthusiast | Manager-Health Specialist @Deloitte | Formerly @AriadneLabs @Dimagi |🎓 @HarvardChanSPH @EmoryUniversity

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

Listen! @asmamk for @throughlineNPR discusses Partition. Including a snippet from me as it was a mission to find our ancestral home when living in India in 2015. That’s a longer story, but I was successful, and was a significant day for all of us. https://t.co/98B8W62WxO

[Asma Khalid @asmamk]

75 years ago -- British India was split in two. One part became India. The other Pakistan.

The more I've covered US politics, the more obsessed I've become with Partition.

Tomorrow - on @throughlineNPR we bring you the story of Partition and what it means for us today.

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@mellabarb Congrats Dr. Barber!!

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@asmamk 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽been listening to this star since I was born!

[Asma Khalid @asmamk]

I prefer the Arundhati Roy quote:
“There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

Fascinating story, as @asmamk mentioned - took me back to my adventure deep into India’s Punjab in 2015 where I was on a quest to find our family’s pre-Partition home. Did so, with the help of an invested driver. The most special day during those few years I lived in India.

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

Yesterday’s @nytimes front page was both immensely powerful and deeply depressing. 2+ years in, 1 million dead in our country, and yet so much still needs to change

[Dr. Theresa Chapple has moved to bluesky @Theresa_Chapple]

her- I guess it's okay to get COVID because we have tools to address it now. Nobody is dying from it anymore.
me- quantify nobody. How many people do you think died from it, in the US yesterday?
her- what, like 50-100?

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

My favorite annual photo series, Ramadan throughout the world. #RamadanMubarak

[NPR @NPR]

Ramadan is now in full swing. Here are scenes from around the world that show how Muslims are observing the start of holy month.
https://t.co/aEt26on0Cc

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

Public health will always have a political tone to it in the US, so how do we institute change? Given yesterday's news https://t.co/gjaF6B238r tuning into a vital conversation led by @HarvardChanSPH with former CDC directors to discuss vital reforms: https://t.co/N08oavmXnZ

[Dr. Amit Arya @AmitAryaMD]

If we wanted to learn to live with COVID, we could have:

-improved ventilation
-provided free N95s
-expanded PCR testing
-increased vaccine uptake
-upgraded vaccine passports/mandates
-legislated 10 paid sick days for workers

This is surrendering to COVID, not living with it.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

The pandemic has killed more Americans than any war in our history, but we spend about 500x less on our health defense than we spend on our military defense.

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@asmamk Well, well, well!!

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@asmamk The audacity to swipe puffs!!

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@HarvardChanDean with the reminder through Paul Farmer’s legacy to not accept the status quo. “Public health is about identifying the challenges that dampen humanity’s potential — and then finding ways to solve them.”

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

This is beyond devastating.

Paul was a hero, a mentor and a friend.

He taught us what global health should be and inspired all of us to do better

His brilliance was only outshined by his compassion and kindness

I'm at a loss. For the @PIH family.

For all of us.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

"Perfect attendance" should be a thing of the past. When you don't feel well, stay home instead of going to work or school and possibly spreading an infection to those around you. I hope Covid has taught us our actions affect others. And that everyone should have paid sick leave.

[Ebony Jade Hilton, MD @EbonyJHilton_MD]

If you are debating on whether or not to go to that crowded, indoor #NewYearsEve party understand this…

There’s at least 10,000 #Americans who were alive to celebrate #Christmas last week and are now #dead before #NYE.

It’s not worth it.

[Dr. Theresa Chapple has moved to bluesky @Theresa_Chapple]

Reporter- "if the people beside you at the airport haven't been practicing mitigation measures, how safe is holiday travel?"
CDC director- "everyone has to assess their own personal risk"

This is not a public health strategy

[Dr. Maryam Khalid @MaryamJKhalid]

@EbooPatel @EmoryUniversity @ifyc As someone who was active member of Emory’s Inter-Religious Council back in the day, I find this to be so awesome!