'Iran has begun an airborne attack against Israel. ... This attack is likely to unfold over a number of hours,' White House apokesperson Adrienne Watson says.

BREAKING: Israel says Iran launched a number of drones toward it that will take hours to arrive apnews.com/article/strait…

Horrific example of woefully inadequate regulations for animal welfare

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On Tuesday, UNICEF's humanitarian convoy was hit by live ammunition on the way to deliver lifesaving aid to north Gaza.

Our staff are safe, but the immense difficulties of delivering aid are making it nearly impossible to meet children's immediate needs, which grow by the minute

The US will soon learn how bad its PFAS crisis is. But Maine has already begun to look—and is waking up to a nightmare. For The Atlantic I spoke to a family realizing they drank toxic water for 30 years, and what it may have cost them. Maine is a warning: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Thank you, AAMC, for interviewing me about my book LEGACY: A Black Physician Reckons with Racism in Medicine and my deeply personal & painful decision to leave academic medicine! It was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.
Abundance followed.

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'Overdose deaths have soared, and every state is being impacted. But research suggests states that haven’t expanded Medicaid coverage, such as Florida, are passing up an opportunity to lessen the toll.'

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TB patients must be provided with the social benefits that they need and deserve, as a basic human right

theconversation.com/tb-research-sh… via The Conversation Africa

Happy Black maternal health week! Doulas are such an important part of our maternal health ecosystem. I’m excited to host a dynamic group on Monday to discuss partnerships between doulas and healthcare systems! #doulapartnerships #instituteforpolicysolutions

Thanks for sharing your kind words about ORDERING THE HUMAN. I’m excited, too, that our volume of multi-disciplinary and global essays on the spread of racial science is out in the world!

WHO was born as a normative agency: Seventy-five years of global health law under WHO governance

⁦Lawrence Gostin⁩ ⁦Benjamin Mason Meier⁩ ⁦Roojin (she/elle) روژین⁩ ⁦Safura Abdool Karim⁩ ⁦Judith Bueno de Mesquita⁩ & team ⁦PLOS Global Public Health⁩ journals.plos.org/globalpubliche…

'Sleeping in close proximity to the baby is one way of making nighttime breastfeeding efficient and minimizing parental sleep disruption.'
~ Pr Helen Ball of Baby Sleep Info Source LLLI #LaLecheLeagueInternational

Join this important discussion during this era where women’s reproductive rights are being decimated and their health and economic wellbeing deeply undermined. Cc Lawrence Gostin Dr Alexandra Phelan Benjamin Mason Meier CUGH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health APHA Johns Hopkins WHOCC for Nursing & Midwifery PBS NewsHour

Led by Noelene K. Jeffers, the Black Maternal Health Week Café on April 15th will bring together a diverse group of experts to discuss the promotion of Black maternal health equity through partnerships between community-based doulas and healthcare systems. #BMHW2024 #BMHWCafe2024

New: Our KFF survey of Medicaid enrollees finds that 23% who say they were dropped during the unwinding of pandemic enrollment protections are now uninsured.

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.Dept. of Agriculture reports +2 #H5N1 #birdflu outbreaks in dairy cattle, bringing the number of infected herds to 26 since the first report in late March. New reports from Texas & New Mexico, which have had the most detections. (graph mine, from USDA data) aphis.usda.gov/livestock-poul…

Feeling so grateful to be supported and seen by current and future advocates for policy changes that would improve public health.

What a great few days of fantastic proposal presentations - leading the way in integrated nursing/public health approaches to improve health, healthcare and health equity across a wide range of topics and settings. #MentorProud