Megan Murray
@megan_b_murray
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Professor of Global Health, Harvard. Interested in TB, community health interventions, women in science, my kids, my dog, sewing, gardening, not in that order.
Boston, MA
Joined July 2018
If you are a global health researcher whose NIH grants have been terminated, consider posting them on our website, which allows funders to search for possible projects of interest to them.
re-fund-global-health.vercel.app
A searchable database of defunded NIH global health grants focusing on human subjects research in LMICs and impoverished settings.
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This pandemic is now going to go into overdrive with the abrupt Trump-ordered destruction of US-funded programs to curtail it.
Before COVID-19, TB claimed more lives than any other infectious disease. In 2019 alone, 1.4 million people died of the illness—more than twice the number who succumbed to AIDS. Yet Americans hardly ever hear about this forgotten pandemic. https://t.co/b5uCOe43FH
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It is important to remember just how recent lots of what we take to be “tradition” are in academia and academic publishing. It is important to not forget that they are recent, because that might help us realise that they are things we can change and reimagine today or tomorrow.
How we ended up with peer review. Melinda Baldwin’s new book is going to be 🔥. https://t.co/p4RLivMqz6
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“Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest.”
thenation.com
Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest.
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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000
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Cancer research opportunity: apply for the Program in Health Disparities Research Postdoctoral fellowship! Gain experience in community engaged research, implementation, and intervention design. Uplift your research career and apply today~ Application: https://t.co/ia2SngF67C
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The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to @Oxfam. There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality. It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.
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For women in academia, barriers to having children aren't just finding partners or preserving fertility. It's systemic barriers—relentless relocations, temporary contracts, focus on individual achievement—planning for a family is like an impossible luxury. https://t.co/itwB9c9odw
science.org
The struggle is “balancing their careers not just with motherhood, but with what comes before: relationships and planning for a family,” these postdocs write
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Friends - my husband is running the 2025 @bostonmarathon as part of the @DanaFarber Marathon Challenge. After my stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis in 2023, chemo, radiation, surgeries, and continued treatment, we want to give back. https://t.co/b89BpUxQeG
danafarber.jimmyfund.org
Help make every mile count. https://danafarber.jimmyfund.org/site/TR?fr_id=2310&pg=personal&px=2491207
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Women are often taking on non-promotable work, like mentoring & building team cohesion, that is unrecognized leadership work. Organizations should expand their definition of leadership to include such work & make it promotable. https://t.co/vlJnIVEdwc
michiganross.umich.edu
As Lee Cunningham and Ashford explore in their new article, “When Qualified Women Resist the Leader Label,” the "Leader-Identity/Competence Paradox" is observed in various data points.
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As I told @CBSMoneyWatch, I was shocked when we found *30* identity factors masquerading as excuses why women aren't right for leadership. Things like age, body size, class, marital status that have nothing to do with ability to do the job. @aimeepicchi
https://t.co/bHq24lsHBy
cbsnews.com
Women report encountering a wide range of biases unrelated to performance or experience that can stunt their careers, new research finds.
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This is a dream job within a dream team, in close collaboration with lab and within @harvard_data
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Come join us for a #PhD @LSHTM with @Rein_Houben - Help improve our understanding of the impact and mitigation of #ClimateCrisis on #TB using mathematical modelling https://t.co/Y9SeB1kXip
@lshtm_tbmod @LSHTM_TB @tb_mac
mrc-lid.lshtm.ac.uk
Epidemiological modelling of the impact and mitigation of climate change on tuberculosis SUPERVISORY TEAM Supervisor Dr...
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Just arrived back in Delhi to find the city embalmed in an all-enveloping burial shroud of pollution. Even at 2pm impossible to see 100m across the runway. I've never seen anything like this in forty years of living here. What a fate for the City of Djinns- still, at its best the
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I'm happy to announce that my book titled "The Foreign Gaze: Essays on Global Health" is now out! You can order the print copy and download the e-copy (open access) here: https://t.co/L9yDyUfvnv The book comes with a playlist for your listening pleasure: https://t.co/ufbdobyMAN
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Delhi is a gas chamber tonight. The air is apocalyptic. The visibility is so bad that you can’t see much on the roads.
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Imagine if people started reading books again rather than social media. Could be interesting.
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Peru leading the way in adopting and integrating new shorter MDRTB regimens. Dr Edwin shares experiences from operational research to understand barriers to care for effective and ethical implementation of all regimens.
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