🚨 Health care is the new battlefront for anti-DEI attacks by myself Jessica Isom MD MPH Rupi Legha, MD (she/her)

'Now is not the time for healthcare institutions & professional organizations to retreat, but instead, to be ready & prepared to rebuff anti-DEI attacks.'

dx.plos.org/10.1371/journa…

Huge day at #SCOTUS as the high court hears arguments on Idaho v US. The future of emergency care in America hangs in the balance. Radical judges and rogue legislators should never dictate the care that I and my fellow emergency physicians can provide. huffpost.com/entry/opinion-…

Very important to note here that qPCR positives are not the same as 'virus particles.' It's much easier to detect viral RNA by qPCR than it is to detect infectious virus or intact virus particles (as the article correctly notes).

This finding does have some big implications:

1/ H5N1 bird flu has been detected in the milk supply
washingtonpost.com/health/2024/04…
nytimes.com/2024/04/23/hea…
fda.gov/food/alerts-ad…

We currently believe the milk supply to be safe.

Some other key points:

Brown Community Members!📣 This Friday: 'The Public Health Crisis in Gaza'

Featuring Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International, Danielle (Dani) Poole, ScD MPH of Yale School of Public Health, Dr. Mohammad Subeh, recently returned from Gaza, and Ella Watson-Stryker of Doctors w/o Borders.

Please RSVP!👇🏽 events.brown.edu/public-health/…

Embargo just lifted! A new study with over 700,000 patients shows, once again, that patients have better outcomes when cared for by female physicians. The benefit, as shown in some previous studies, is greatest for female patients.

acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M2…

I am thrilled to announce a new initiative to recruit, train and empower the next generation of biosecurity and pandemic leaders. Today, the Pandemic Center at Brown School of Public Health is launching with our partners 'Biosecurity Game Changers'--a new, paid fellowship program. Come work with us and top orgs!

The decline in American life expectancy is an issue that extends beyond health—it affects our economy too. #HealthyNYC serves as a model for other cities/states, demonstrating the importance of a holistic approach to tackle the root causes of this crisis: latimes.com/opinion/story/…

CASE DISMISSED‼️

After 7 years of fallacious accusations, the Tribunal of Trapani in #Italy dismissed all the allegations against MSF and the other search and rescue #NGOs falsely accused of aiding and abetting illegal immigration in the #Mediterranean .

“Public initiatives such as antipoverty cash-transfer programs should therefore not be viewed as charity for the poor but should be regarded, codified,and funded as essential public health and safety infrastructure”

Critical NEJM piece by Eric Reinhart
nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

Carlos del Rio Craig Spencer MD MPH Los Angeles Times Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 that also ultimately serves to help prevent epidemic disasters, etc. I'd love to see us shift toward this bottom-up narrative framing of public health. We should in fact see it working every day via social caregiving rather than imagining it as invisible bureaucrats at the CDC.

The decline in American life expectancy
is an economic crisis, too
by me & Craig Spencer MD MPH in the @LATimes.

latimes.com/opinion/story/…

'A 1-year increase in life expectancy could boost economic output by 4%.'

To build back stronger, public health’s past must inform its future.

In this Los Angeles Times essay Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 and I present the moral and economic imperatives for investing in public health.

We explore where the field came from.

And where it must go. ⤵️
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

Today Brown University School of Public Health hosted a great discussion between our own Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH and dedicated humanitarian Michael VanRooyen.

Really thoughtful discussion on the humanitarian crisis and public health needs in Gaza, why the catastrophe in Sudan remains overlooked, and much more.

Let's treat public health as an economic imperative, argue Drs. Craig Spencer MD MPH and Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 in the Los Angeles Times. It's worked before. latimes.com/opinion/story/…

'We need to revive a historical source of support for public health measures: the business case for a healthy workforce,' Craig Spencer MD MPH and Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 write. 'Public health infrastructure makes it easier for working people to lead healthy lives.'
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

To build back stronger, public health’s past must inform its future.

In this Los Angeles Times essay Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦 and I present the moral and economic imperatives for investing in public health.

We explore where the field came from.

And where it must go. ⤵️
latimes.com/opinion/story/…

I agree with Marty Makary MD, MPH. Hospitals that do not act like charities should not be treated as charities for tax purposes.