Will Gardner, MD, MPH

resident physician @brighammedres. md @columbiaps. mph @uw. ba @harvard. global health, social policy, music. 🏳️‍🌈 #HealthForAll

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.

What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.

Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.

Happy Fourth of July, New York City.

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

THE OKLAHOMA SOONERS ARE NATIONAL CHAMPIONS 🏆

[Oklahoma Baseball @OU_Baseball]

THAT'S ONE 🗣️

[ESPN @espn]

Oklahoma advances to the MCWS Finals 😤

[Thunder Film Room @ThunderFilmRoom]

Highly suggest taking a minute to read this post from the Oklahoma City National Memorial Museum about the connection between OKC & NYC. It’s bigger than basketball.

“Today we celebrate the resilience of two cities torn apart by terrorism and how sports and honoring the memory of those who were killed, those who survived and those changed forever will always unite our cities.”

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

MD ✅
So grateful for the last four years @ColumbiaPS

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

Read the full study here: https://t.co/sxjvuV87rA

Access the data: https://t.co/hfpSkxUN82

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

Our paper @IHME_UW just published in @TheLancetHaem examining the impact of changes in WHO anemia definition guidelines on global anemia burden, including an increase in 200 million estimated cases globally. 🧵

https://t.co/sxjvuV87rA

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

🔑 Key Insights:

Using the updated method, global anaemia prevalence in 2023 is estimated at 26.4%, compared with 24.0% using the prior method, representing 198 million additional cases worldwide.

This moves anaemia from the 3rd to the 2nd leading cause of disability globally.

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

SO excited to have matched Internal Medicine at @BrighamWomens and to be joining the @BrighamMedRes family!! #Match2026 #MatchDay

[Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs2]

Congratulations to all medical students matching today!

Especially excited to welcome the new 2026-2027 Class of @BrighamWomens Internal Medicine Interns!

We are looking forward to working with you all very soon.

@MassGenBrigham @BrighamMedRes

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

Pipes and cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes. They're associated with measurable lung function loss and increased risk of death and COPD events.

Public health messaging, clinical practice, and regulation should reflect this reality.

🔗 https://t.co/eBHgVYiXbc

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

Our latest from @NIH_NHLBI Pooled Cohorts Study @columbiamed in @ThoraxBMJ! 🧵

In a meta-cohort of 22,800+ US adults, exclusive pipe/cigar users had:

📉Faster lung function decline
📈2x risk of COPD hospitalization/death
📈24% higher all-cause mortality

https://t.co/eBHgVYiXbc

[Will Gardner, MD, MPH @willmgardner]

The clinical outcomes were striking too.

Exclusive pipe/cigar users (vs. never tobacco users) had:

⬆️ 24% higher all-cause mortality (aHR 1.24)
⬆️ 2x the risk of COPD hospitalization or death (aHR 2.02)
⬆️ 83% higher risk of incident PRISm (aHR 1.83)

[Jonathan Reiner @JReinerMD]

The NIH Director is basically saying that scientific journals are not to be trusted when it comes to public health. The Sec of HHS has said that “trusting the experts” is not a feature of a democracy. This is Orwellian.

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

#CDC has had a full-time director for less than a month in Trump 2.0. People watching the situation think it's unlikely there will be another Senate-confirmed CDC director in this term.
With Jim O'Neill's firing, it doesn't have an acting director either. https://t.co/xL576yytuY

[Sasha Gusev @SashaGusevPosts]

Sorry folks, FDA is no longer considering treatments for conditions that aren't clearly visible on an unscaled plot. You want the drugs, you gotta get the baseline rates up first.

[Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @HelenBranswell]

#NIH to deprioritize pandemic preparedness and biodefense research, @nature.com reports, saying director Jay Bhattacharya wants to focus on known diseases, not possible future threats.
What could possibly go wrong?
https://t.co/6TpLr6pY3B