Nsikan Akpan, PhD
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Highly melanated. Managing Editor, @ThinkGlobalHlth/@CFR_org. BSky: https://t.co/GpvNzpKuAa Past: WNYC, NatGeo, PBS NewsHour | PhD pathobiologist | YNWA
Joined September 2011
Whoa: Juul gets FDA’s OK to keep selling tobacco and menthol e-cigarette
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Not to mention all the aid/monies for refugee programs, UNICEF, peacekeeping, etc.
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Note: Even though the Senate has removed $400 million in PEPFAR funding from the rescissions package, another $500 million in global health funding could still be cut.
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RT @RachelNuwer: The Senate's new bill would cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, causing 10+ million people to lose insurance. Cancer patients a….
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Kulldorff says the first work group may also look at "new research concerning the optimal timing of the MMR vaccine to resolve *****religious objections***** that some parents have.".
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Another new work group will examine the childhood vaccine schedule to evaluate the number, timing, and volume of vaccines given during childhood and adolescence.
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Martin Kulldorff, new chair of CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), says it is establishing a work group to examine childhood vaccines that have not been subject to review for over seven years. He lists MMR (👀), MMRV, and Hep B vaccines as examples.
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RT @BNONews: Trump says U.S. dropped a "full payload of bombs" on Fordow nuclear site in Iran
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RFK Jr. says he is replacing all members of the CDC's advisory committee on vaccines i.e., the Advisory Committee for Immunization Practices (ACIP). ACIP comprises independent experts to develop all of the nation's vaccine recommendations. His WSJ op-ed.
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Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days - Eric Holthaus / The Guardian. If forecasts hold, the Midwest could experience degraded air quality tonight. NY could see the same to a lesser degree on Saturday.
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The World Health Assembly has adopted the Pandemic Agreement. The catch: The treaty will not be signed, ratified, nor put into force until member states negotiate an annex section about Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS).
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RT @DrTedros: A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 agai….
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RT @Prof_Yadav_SCM: The new U.S. executive order on pharmaceutical MFN pricing is (thankfully) limited to MFN reference pricing to high-inc….
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RT @ggronvall: I think @angie_rasmussen doesn’t get enough credit for the education and mentoring role she plays here on twitter, offering….
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USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” . ✍️ : Sara Jerving / Devex.
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RT @maxdkozlov: Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwest….
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EcoHealth Alliance, the research nonprofit entangled in the COVID origins debate, is shutting down. A thread from its president:.
Our post also gives a short update on @EcoHealthNYC, which is sadly closing its doors after >50 yrs operation in the USA & around the world. Read more here:
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RT @ThinkGlobalHlth: "We're just handing out medicine and crossing our fingers." . Christian Health Service Corps' Beth Stuebing describes….
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