Carolina I. Andrada

Health security policy & governance, HSS, UHC | 🇦🇷 | Formerly: @CSISHealth @JHSPH_CHS @georgetownmsfs @johnshopkins | thoughts mine

[Ashleigh Furlong @ashleighfurlong]

SCOOP: WHO is asking employees to consider early retirement as it seeks to cut costs following Trump’s decision to withdraw.

Staff aged 55 years old or older can retire with 4 months pay, according to copy of internal email seen by Bloomberg.

Gift link: https://t.co/thBtYGZhfA

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

@paulg @cmyeaton Final point- being Argentine, I think this conversation is not overblown. My family left after the 2001 crisis. Argentina’s definitely not a war-torn country now, but I’m still glad we left. It doesn’t take full-on collapse for emigration to be worthwhile.

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

@paulg @cmyeaton Some are trying to define that trigger point though. For example I’ve seen people say stuff like “if you’re trans, the time to make a plan to leave is now”.

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

@cmyeaton @paulg Exactly. It’s being talked a lot on Tiktok and other social media channels as a way to prepare for the unknown. Renew passports, get copies of birth certificates, etc etc. These emergency strategies are going viral.

[Clare Wenham @clarewenham]

🚨New Paper🚨

Ever wondered how much the #INB #Pandemictreaty @WHO might be costing, and is this a good use of money when pandemic preparedness resources are so limited?

We did... so we set out to quantify it. Our findings our now out in @PLOSGPH

tldr: at minimum $201M USD

[Craig Spencer MD MPH @Craig_A_Spencer]

RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.

We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.

I recently wrote in @TheAtlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇

https://t.co/rVXqEzE2qT

[Nina Schwalbe, PhD @nschwalbe]

🚨 In a special press conference today Geneva, the co-chairs of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Body for a #PandemicAccord announced negotiations will not conclude this year and will continue through 2025.

🚦So no special Session of the World Health Assembly in December.

🧵

[Matthew Kavanagh [email protected] @MMKavanagh]

Our new piece @TheLancet is out from the working group on access and ethics
“Recent shortcomings call for a stronger role for public governance through WHO, which has a unique claim to global political legitimacy…”
@SuerieMoon @adam_strobe

[Kristof Decoster @KristofDecoste1]

Tested in Africa, used in America https://t.co/vnUh25Wfp4 via @statnews @RRavinetto @BelenTarrafeta

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

It’s unacceptable to use changes in communicable disease rates as an excuse to take punitive action against a group of people. Public health should not be exploited for fascism.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

In Springfield, Ohio, there has been a massive rise in communicable diseases, rent prices, car insurance rates, and crime. This is what happens when you drop 20,000 people into a small community.

Kamala Harris's immigration policy aims to do this to every town in our country.

[Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH @JenniferNuzzo]

Yesterday @pandemiccenter @CSISHealth @TheCOVIDCollab launched the American Democracy and Health Security Initiative to set the country on a common path towards practical pandemic solutions. Our website features tons of content from Pandemic Lamplighters and bipartisan leaders.

[Jen Kates @jenkatesdc]

For those interested in the underlying study:

https://t.co/QVWAQqSXzq

[Suerie Moon @SuerieMoon]

Congratulations to all negotiators and @WHO for reaching consensus on amending IHR #WHA77!

IHR amendment is once-in-a-generation change in int'l rules governing disease outbreaks,

1st change in int'l law responding to devastating Covid-19 pandemic

What's there? What's not?:

[Sophie Harman @DrSophieHarman]

Today Israel was elected to the Executive Board of @WHO

By the WHO's own records there have been 872 attacks on healthcare in Palestine since 7/10 https://t.co/zYhbGl4bbI.

And 2 days after MSF published this https://t.co/8g8v0F5Ple

A new low for global health & WHO.

[Clare Wenham @clarewenham]

The failure to get a #pandemicagreement finalised is a massive blow for all diplomats, negotiators, technical teams that spent years working on it.

But, it was also quite predictable. It was a poor plan made for political posturing, rather than meaningful pandemic preparedness

[Colin Carlson @ColinJCarlson]

If you work on pandemics, global health security, disease ecology, or conservation, I hope you'll read and share our new preprint. 👇

(Or, just take this statistic: For every hour you travel from a clinic, the lifetime odds of detecting an outbreak goes down by one third.)

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

So happy to see @A1RWhite’s Epidemic Orientalism on IA’s list of recommended reads for May!! Such a critical text for health security in the 21st century

[International Affairs @IAJournal_CH]

Looking for new books to read? 📚

Check out 5️⃣ reads we recommend this season 👇
https://t.co/sLw5awteSF

[Carolina I. Andrada @ciandrada]

Me: excitedly telling my partner about a new intellectual fascination, cold chain and vaccine supply

@CormariePaul: stop talking to me about fridges