Wendy Vaughan

ORISE Fellow | Epidemiology
Cat mom, nerd, constantly tired
She/her/hers

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

If fewer abortions are the goal, we have data that clearly illustrates how to achieve it- equitable, affordable, and timely access to reproductive healthcare including abortion and contraceptives paired with comprehensive and accurate sex education.

[Julie Carey @JulieCareyNBC]

Virginia’s Governor on the Dobbs decision: “The Supreme Court..has rightfully returned the power to the people & their elected representatives in the states.” Gov. Youngkin says he asked four GOP lawmakers to work on legislation to reduce abortions. @nbcwashington

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

#IronChef Quest for an Iron Legend is my new happy place. Do not be surprised if I binge the entire series again tomorrow

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

I wrote about the Covid capitulation
https://t.co/N5zk6WsPWB

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

Planning the next few years of my life: fellowship, moving, saving so my husband can get his PhD while knowing that the planet is going to basically catch fire in the next five years is a wild sort of dissonance #ClimateCrisis #MillennialThings #GradProbs

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

@ianspaterson Human behavior and emotions are inherently complex and don't give themselves to easy explanations (behavioral blasphemy, I know). It's very likely a mixture but also dependent on 1000 other factors including SES, lived experiences, and just pure chance

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

Telling people you're moving 17 hours away really gives you an idea of what your friendship was actually worth to them

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

My upcoming #MPH #Epidemiology graduation is beginning to morph from celebratory to ominous as I've found myself stuck behind many closed doors labeled "years of experience" and "selection algorithms".

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

@PeterHotez Your work has kept me hopeful for the future of public health. It has been a special type of discouraging to see the proliferation and impact of misinformation on the field I will be entering in May. Thank you for your work and perseverance.

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

@BrianCCastrucci The experience barrier is what I have come across the most. Due to the pandemic, I did not have the opportunity to complete a traditional internship typical of my program. I'm not confident that my applications make it in front of human eyes since I can't check all the boxes

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

While I have never had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Paul Farmer, he has been my inspiration and an example of the best of us, someone that I could only hope to be a fraction of. I am devastated and hope that global health can continue his legacy and never forget our potential

[Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha]

To have loved Paul is to have given the man your socks

He gave and gave to the world

But one thing he took? Socks

He always showed up to places without them

I just want to see him one more time to ask what he did with all the socks

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

Meet Vacca, Latin for cow. Named in honor of being cow colored and born in the middle of a pandemic. It is not uncommon to see me following her around the house making the pacman noise :V #CatsOnTwitter #MPH #EpiTwitter #NerdsWithCats

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

Any scientist that relies solely on p-values to determine the effectiveness of an intervention needs to read a biostatistics text with an "open mind"

[Marty Makary MD, MPH @MartyMakary]

CDC says cloth masks significantly reduce transmission but fails to mention that their own source MMWR study reported a p-value was 0.1 (non-significant). Any honest scientist should read this with an open mind: EXCELLENT review by ⁦@VPrasadMDMPH⁩ https://t.co/sAHZLi63G6

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

How to interpret the data? >30% of Covid deaths in America after vaccines made widely available. Literally hundreds of thousands of unvaccinated American lives lost needlessly, victimized by political aggression, far right extremism. I say it like no one else, so they target me

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

All of the amazing work this man has done has cumulated in a Nobel Peace Prize nomination and a digital wave of attacks from the right wing rage machine and Russian bots

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

Ugh, did Tucker Carlson go after me tonight on Fox News? Whenever Fox or their fellow travelers does that it’s often followed by a wave of aggression on the internet or worse, sometimes with antisemitic with Nazi images. Looks like they’re starting to roll in…

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

@mloxton @kaitlynesposito A few modules with questions at the end?

[Brian C. Castrucci, DrPH @BrianCCastrucci]

It is hard to believe that the @CDCgov guidance is science based rather than economy based. Is our sciecne difference from Canada, Europe + UK? When science is politicized where will people go for science?

[Mattathias Schwartz @Schwartzesque]

Wow.
https://t.co/8EaVOA2TbL

[Wendy Vaughan @SesenRa]

That #WorkFromHome life