Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿

#bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married to @rebecca_mep @[email protected]

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

I'm a scientist with an agenda: Improving life for the people of the world, especially Africans. If you follow me expect science (bioinformatics, pathogens) *and* politics (pan-African, intersectional - I'm the commie they warned you about!) . And the occasional (dad) joke.

[Declan Walsh @declanwalsh]

I'm very sorry to report that Dr. Omar Selik, cited in our earlier story about the siege of El Fasher, was killed alongside dozens of others in a strike on a crowded mosque this morning.

[Chikwe Ihekweazu @Chikwe_I]

⚠️We are seeing a worrying resurgence of chikungunya, with trends similar to those seen in the 2004-05 outbreak, when nearly half a million people were affected.

@WHO has published a new Q&A for the public to inform & protect themselves.
⬇️

https://t.co/Gtu0KW3HOy

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@MarionKoopmans Sterkte, Marion. Our parents growing old and frail is a difficult thing. Hoping for the best

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@FrancoisVenter3 And Shringrix, one of the top money makers in GSK's portfolio, uses the AS01 adjuvant, developed with public money (as part of malaria vaccine research)...

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@Chikwe_I @dg @DrTedros @DrMikeRyan Congratulations, dear Chikwe. What an inspired choice to fill that role. I wish (unrealistically) that your tenure might be uneventful!

[Joan van Dyk @vandykjoan]

A new @NIH policy means most of the NIH funding for research groups in SA will be cancelled. https://t.co/LsKpv6x8vE

[Chikwe Ihekweazu @Chikwe_I]

This gets harder and harder everyday. How can we live in a world that allows this. 😥

[Scott Edmunds @SCEdmunds]

Incredible stuff, well done @pvanheus and @alangchris!

African scientists set genomics ‘world speed record’ in confirming Ebola outbreak in Uganda https://t.co/tX8709zCJu

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@SCEdmunds @alangchris Most of the credit is of course due to @cphluganda

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@Chikwe_I @WHO Congratulations! Is the airport open now? The work of diagnostics needs to continue & be strengthened as well.

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@SouthAfricanASP @RFKJr_Official And he says stuff like this and then does his interview in a fast food restaurant...

[Mia Malan @miamalan]

[Thread] 1. Did #Trump shut down #USAID projects in SA or around the world?
Answer: Globally. In court documents Peter Marocco submitted, he said 5 800 projects will be terminated + 500 would be retained.

[Nanjala Nyabola @Nanjala1]

Every single person who was killed during the anti-finance bill protests in Kenya was killed by the police. The last confirmed death toll was 72, but several people remain unaccounted for.

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@GeraldGmboowa I don't see how you get asymptomatic circulation from the second ref? It's definitely an interesting possibility but have seroprevalence surveys been done to confirm this? Or are you taking the lack of known exposure of symptomatic individual of the "index case" as evidence?

[Yousra Elbagir @YousraElbagir]

Trump's new executive order targeting South Africa & calling Afrikaners "refugees" feels far from funny after speaking to the most vulnerable - HIV+ women who will struggle to get the help they need.

Our report produced by the glorious @ZikhonaTshona

https://t.co/D2yzFwAorH

[Mat Nashed @matnashed]

Horrifying and also expected. Almost every single day for 14 months there was info trickling out of Gezira that the RSF killed at least a few people in a new village.

Sometimes, they would kill dozens or go on a killing spree.

[Mat Nashed @matnashed]

#Sudan 's army is on the cusp of retaking Khartoum, bringing hope that renewed stability will return to the capital.

But local relief workers are terrified of being targeted in a new wave of army reprisal killings, a trend throughout the war.

My latest

https://t.co/KcT4r0LC7L

[Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩🏳️‍🌈🗿 @pvanheus]

@Chikwe_I @DrTedros @WHO @WHOAFRO Congratulations! Your strength will be greatly valued, I am sure.

[alan christoffels @alangchris]

We Successfully concluded project planning with the @AfricaCDC pathogen team and @ASLM_News. Role out of Pathogen genomics projects including computational infrastructure for national public health labs. @pha4ge @MRCza

[Gabby Stern @gabbystern]

A very cool colleague has launched a grassroots effort to support @WHO. It's called 1 Dollar, 1 World. Give what you can afford. I've donated. 🙏 https://t.co/FkiEQPhlTx #HealthForAll