My latest: Long-awaited CUNY investigation finds that Hoau-Yan Wang, a key scientist behind Cassava Sciences’ Alzheimer’s drug, engaged in “longstanding and egregious misconduct” associated with studies supporting the drug, simufilam. 1/3 https://t.co/rYqpkO4Mos
Our shared work is in @nytimes today
A story about what #CHWs need to get care to everyone. A story about the community fighting to get us there
https://t.co/oP6wMCVF3U
#HealthforAll@join_chic
Justice, not charity.
US Reps @JanSchakowsky, @RepBarbaraLee & @RepRaulRuizMD throw down the gauntlet with “21st Century Global Health Solidarity Strategy”—the most ambitious #globalhealth legislation ever.
Let's summarize the urgently needed vision🧵
https://t.co/PTiU44nUvV
TODAY! @GlobalFund Seventh Replenishment Pledging Conference opens in NYC.
WATCH LIVE: https://t.co/Xrp3RxYYpF
Now it is time to turn words into action.
Because who, if not us? And when, if not now? This is our fight.
#FightForWhatCounts
Major news⬇️
The @WhiteHouse requested $2 billion for the @GlobalFund in FY23, pledging $6 billion ahead of the seventh replenishment! Thanks to @POTUS's leadership, the world🌍is closer to getting back on track in the fight to end #HIV, #TB & #malaria
https://t.co/Iq5wS4eHnN
Partners In Health announced that its founder, Dr. Paul Farmer, unexpectedly passed away today in his sleep while in Rwanda.
Dr. Farmer was 62 years old. He is survived by his wife, Didi Bertrand Farmer, and their three children.
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"A more just and equitable system for pandemics would ensure that, in every region of the world, we could develop, manufacture vaccines and other medical products and get them to every country who needed them as quickly as possible." @pritikrishtel on @NewsHour
"We live in a hierarchy of health. Some people are going to get medical products first, and some people aren't going to get them at all."
Priti Krishtel offers us her #BriefButSpectacular take on creating a more equitable global healthcare system. https://t.co/o81yDViS45
The Global Pandemic Requires A Global Vaccination Plan https://t.co/FlnjziD7PW @Lisha1McCormick and Marion Subah of @lastmilehealth with @pandemicaction in @Forbes
These extraordinary times and circumstances of call for extraordinary measures.
The US supports the waiver of IP protections on COVID-19 vaccines to help end the pandemic and we’ll actively participate in @WTO negotiations to make that happen.
New U.S. Malaria Czar: Why We Should Care About The Disease, Even In A Pandemic https://t.co/6y6RpH82n1
@rajpanjabi "Science shows we can defeat malaria in this generation. Then we create hope we can defeat future pandemics. And at an existential level, hope matters."
.@WHCOVIDResponse National Strategy for the COVID-19 Response and Pandemic Preparedness calls for 100,000 new community based workers to assist with testing, tracing and vaccination: https://t.co/WfzQzj8f4q
West Africa's Ebola epidemic killed thousands. In a 2016 Senate testimony I shared how US could partner with Liberia to hire community health workers to rebuild. Thanks partly to US investment, thousands of them are now responding to COVID19 & saving lives
https://t.co/I4LrL45NSh
There are effective approaches already in use outside the U.S. that can provide focused protection for the vulnerable and prevent transmission of viruses indoors, write @s_keshavjee and Tom Nicholson https://t.co/K5r7p9Pqe8 via @WSJ
Chief of Staff @RonaldKlain in *January*:
"individuals may be infectious before the onset of symptoms"
"not impossible to imagine Trump being the first to angrily dismiss the counsel [Dr. Fauci] offers if it does not fit with his own poor instincts"
https://t.co/3Dr5TkkqFB
Yes, vaccines can save lives. Yes, vaccines can speed up economic recovery. But no, vaccines will not be a ‘magic bullet’ – because vaccines don’t deliver themselves, health workers do. #COVID19
My remarks at today's @WorldBank@IMFNews Annual Meeting. https://t.co/8fOxhU1iwQ
Female #HealthWorkers are transforming healthcare around the world. #Exemplars research offers inspiration based on policies that have improved health outcomes in Africa and South Asia. https://t.co/aL9tLsA9be @WorldBank@IMFNews#InvestInPeople
"When it comes to the response to the largest public health crisis of our time, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent." https://t.co/9ZGRX7JuAc @NEJM @DoctorsForBiden #Plexiglass#VoteHealth