carole mitnick

TB researcher, SJ devotee. Mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, human. Intermittent exerciser. Can’t sit still. Love to cook & share meals.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

gone fishing for humanity & decency @cdmitpih.bsky.social.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Chris’s #pmc2025 launched in support of cancer care provided by @PIH to those most in need. Donate to Chris’s ride for #ekiponkoloji @PanMass at https://t.co/yzjHOwnZEe.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Crochet has a point: https://t.co/aLQ3Fr4VbO. Worth noting that @WEEI ‘s own @WillFlemming was also mired in negativity about the @RedSox (& Crochet) during bottom of 1st & top of 2nd last night. Broadcast was unbearable AGAIN so I turned it off & missed the comeback.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

My hubby, Chris Johnson is among the Brookline riders in #PMC2025 featured in this @brooklinenews (https://t.co/aC72BN5ToM). He is riding again for @PIH’s Ekip
Onkoloji team. Read more about Chris’s motivation & donate at: https://t.co/yzjHOwoxtM

[PIH_Rwanda @PIH_Rwanda]

Today we are in Rwinkwavu as PIH_Rwanda marks 20 years of delivering Health care . Follow us live on https://t.co/BKtTx8PNIp

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Thx @LancetRespirMed for rapid pub of endTB-Q & podcast. Resistant TB is more likely w/US withdrawal from global health. Trial results affirm dangers of one-size-fits-all approaches in TB & all infectious diseases. 🎧: https://t.co/5bygPBM4Ft
🔗 article: https://t.co/4ArsjKtimJ

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

For constituents who want senators to be fully informed &/or are opposed to eliminating lifesaving programs such as PEPFAR & TB treatment, let your senators know TODAY using this simple tool https://t.co/masYcVehNR.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

@JerryMoran @SenToddYoung @SenatorCollins @SenBillCassidy
@SenMcConnell If u do NOT know “what they are actually rescinding”, u abdicate ur responsibility to your constituents by voting for rescissions. https://t.co/YXivRFvkFl

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Bringing IRS into xenophobic fold is another bone-headed USG move. It guarantees immigrants will contribute less to our shrinking tax base. While corporations get massive tax breaks, fewer U.S. residents will foot the bill for dwindling services & massive military spending.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

@MIRACoalition Thx 4 reminding us of significant tax—among other—contributions immigrants make: “In 2023, immigrants in MA paid a total of $20.4 billion in taxes, with $6.6 billion spent on state and local taxes. This includes $1.4B in taxes paid by undocumented households.”1/2

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

The spokeswoman for China’s ministry of foreign affairs just posted this:

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Thx, @SpotlightNSP , for explaining the global impact of 1️⃣example of USG’s pettiness & short-sightedness. Every advance in TB & HIV care relies on research in S. Africa. Cutting foreign aid funds kills people today. Cutting research funds kills people for generations.

[Spotlight @SpotlightNSP]

MUST READ | The sudden and severe US cuts to grants from the world’s largest health research funder threaten to unravel the medical research landscape in SA. Will the government turn this crisis into an opportunity for renewal? @marcuslowx

https://t.co/yHkXXmKUB5

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Every single innovation in TB treatment, diagnosis, prevention over the last few decades has relied on research in S. Africa. If your neighbor in KS, TX, WY, etc gets TB, you are at risk bcuz of this latest petty move. It makes America less, not #MoreSecure

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

The threat hanging over South African HIV/AIDS researchers for the past week has become a reality: The Trump administration has begun terminating or putting on hold their grants from the U.S. National Institutes of Health. https://t.co/BWwyFlq6bD

[Harvard Magazine @HarvardMagazine]

On Tuesday, prominent author and personality John Green published his new nonfiction book "Everything Is Tuberculosis." Carole Mitnick, professor of global health and social medicine, calls the disease the "quintessential marker of inequity."

#Harvard
https://t.co/XXd80SItgN

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

@RepKeithSelf “In life, as in war, there are times to engage and times to disengage”. You do not get to disengage from your constituents. You serve at their pleasure. Shame on you.

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Wait, what? Republican leadership advises
not meeting w/constituents to avoid embarrassment? Better advice to achieve the desired outcome: don’t abdicate responsibility for governing in their constituents best interest & don’t capitulate to a bully! https://t.co/lRDtahO0Fh

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

USAID’s “tagline was “From the American people,” and perhaps the American people didn’t understand that it was also for them.” This will be a fatal misunderstanding.

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

“Deadly diseases don’t bother with borders; no wall will keep them out. If America stays the course, 'Something went wrong' will become the epitaph of a great country, one that once led the world in global health preparedness,” @Craig_A_Spencer writes: https://t.co/38yFJr95Sr

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Illegal impoundment, looking for retroactive justification that doesn’t exist, is still illegal impoundment. Requests to NOT SPEND appropriated funds must go to
Congress. Exclusive: Inside USAID's postmortem program review https://t.co/K5ZwZ5m7Tm #Devex via @Devex

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

Thanks to those
dedicated to protecting the US & the world from the deadliest infectious disease, TB. W/the destruction sowed by the White House, we will need many more such champions. Support them to do their work.

[CDC TB @CDC_TB]

Congratulations to the 2025 CDC U.S. TB Elimination Champions!

Read this year’s inspiring stories: https://t.co/gs0jzVb13w

#WorldTBDay   #TBEliminationChampion

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

In others, TB lurks for decades & lunges later to kill its unsuspecting hosts. Nearly all research done to prevent, treat, & diagnose TB in the last 20 years has been conducted in S. Africa. These advances are also threatened today. https://t.co/Z2zPnnw4iF

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

In @TheAtlantic https://t.co/MO8I1yfWfH John Green lays bare how decimation of foreign aid assures us of a world w/more TB. It assures us of more “stupid deaths”, deaths per @PIH ’s late Paul
Farmer that can be averted w/equity in access to medical care & basic rights:🧵1/3

[carole mitnick @cdmitpih]

like food, housing, safety, education, & fruits of scientific
advancement. Reversals in all these services are also assured by the broligarchy, blazing new deadly paths for
the “perfect predator”
now & later. In some, TB bacteria attack & kill immediately after infection. 🧵2/3