Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD

Epidemiologist, Associate Professor of Health Promotion Sciences @uarizona. Tweets personal opinions!

[Lynda Carter @RealLyndaCarter]

This interview is a uniquely valuable perspective. Please watch.

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

OMG! 😱 These are the experts who decide which grants got funded......or not!

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

AMPLIFYING

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Hotez is correct and the journals back him across the board. COVID's thromboembolic damage is real and documented. Vaccination lowers those risks measurably. This is public health grounded in evidence, not ideology.

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

Amen! Glad someone is saying it aloud ...thank you!

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Still think there’s not a historic war on women? It’s at times like this that I’m embarrassed to be a man.

My thanks to Linsay Rousseau for her important contribution to a conversation the medical profession seems to have ignored as some sort of perverse punishment on women.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/ftlkt2Bxtr

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

This is what's coming to India. But we don't care. Our water is already poisonous. Our air already kills. And noise... we are the loudest noise in the world. So, as they say, no worries.

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

Fantastic!!!

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

The $100 whole human genome sequence finally reached! @ElemBio
https://t.co/ofqqRzNI7s

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

OMG!

[AmbedkariteIN @AmbedkariteLM]

The judge who delivered the verdict is Justice Narendra Kumar Vyas. He belongs to the Brahmin community.

He became a judge through the Collegium system without appearing for a competitive examination

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

@cspramesh @bmj_latest Perhaps a letter to the editor addressing these claims?

[drklausner @drklausner]

Is this common vaginal condition, sexually transmitted?
Appears so.
New study confirms treating a male sex partner, reduces repeat infection. For BV sufferers, welcome new research.

[Crystal 🇨🇦 @BluenoserGalNS]

Did you know? In 1923, Canadian 🇨🇦scientist Frederick Banting sold his insulin patent for $1.00 saying, “Insulin does not belong to me, it belongs to the world.”.

Not all hero’s wear capes‼️🦸

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

✅ 2025: Countries walk the talk in eliminating #CervicalCancer!
Countries incl. Bhutan, Brazil, China, Indonesia, Nigeria, Tajikistan, Pakistan and Rwanda expanded HPV (human papillomavirus) vaccination and screening - bringing the world closer to eliminating cervical cancer.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

Imagine if serving in government was as prestigious as landing a job at Google.

In Finland and Singapore, it basically is. Public service is seen as a privilege, a place where the most ambitious people go to solve the biggest problems.

That’s the culture we should be striving for.

[j.a.h.n.a.v.i._.i.y.e.r @JahnaviIyer]

I am struggling to wrap my head around this. How did a factory that poisoned 350,000 people in Italy and sent its executives to prison for 141 years get a second life in India?
This is the story of a “toxic hand-me-down" thats unfolding right now in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra.
In 2018, the Miteni plant in Italy was shut down. It had leaked "Forever Chemicals" (PFAS) into the groundwater for decades. The result? Kidney cancer, heart disease, and thousands of excess deaths. It was an environmental crime so bad that the Italian courts actually held the bosses accountable.
But instead of being scrapped, the plant was bought, dismantled, and shipped in containers to Mumbai.
By early 2025, it became fully operational in the Lote Parshuram industrial area.
Here’s why this is terrifying:
1. No Rules: India doesn't even have PFAS regulations yet. We are basically a "wild west" for chemicals that stay in your blood and soil forever.
2. Infrastructure Gaps: In rural Maharashtra, power cuts are frequent. When the power goes out, the treatment plants stop, and toxic waste gets dumped directly into the streams that feed the Vashishti and Jagbudi rivers.
3. The Western Ghats: We are doing this in the heart of one of the world's most sensitive ecosystems.
It feels like we’re being used as a dumping ground for a business model that was literally ruled a crime in Europe.

Why are we importing equipment that was deemed too poisonous for Italians? Who is looking out for the 25,000 workers and the families living in Ratnagiri?
We need to talk about this before "Forever Chemicals" become a forever problem for our children.
#Ratnagiri #Maharashtra #Environment #PublicHealth #PFAS #India #WesternGhats #CleanWater

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@ananya_sharma_ @IndiaSpend @CSIR_IITR @IVLSecurities @aerf_india @toxicslink

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

If something does deserve to burn🔥—it’s United Healthcare corporate leadership. @UHC @UnitedHealthGrp @askUHC

[NIH @NIH]

Last year, $9B of the $35B that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) granted for research was used for administrative overhead, what is known as “indirect costs.” Today, NIH lowered the maximum indirect cost rate research institutions can charge the government to 15%, above what many major foundations allow and much lower than the 60%+ that some institutions charge the government today. This change will save more than $4B a year effective immediately.

[Purnima Madhivanan, MBBS, MPH, PhD @pmadhivanan01]

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[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Seems like @JeffBezos didn’t like this awesome cartoon by @AnnTelnaes…so keep sharing it

[Chemtai Mungo,MD,MPH @ChemtaiMungo]

One-dose of the #HPV vaccine confers at least 20-years protection from HPV 16, the most oncogenic HPV causing majority of #cervicalcancers! #VaccinesWork! @IPVSociety @Being_Africa