Will Humble
@willhumble_az
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Public health enthusiast. @PublicHealthAZ director & former @AZDHS director (2009-2015) | @UCBerkeley @NAU @ASU 🍉🌍
Arizona, USA
Joined January 2016
BREAKING: “What Arizonans should know about vote on newborns and Hep B vaccine.” (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
Mainstream medical community: If newborns don't get Hepatitis B vaccine some could go on to develop severe liver disease.
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Former CDC CMO warns: "We have enough data points to know this is not a series of isolated missteps. It is a purposeful reshaping of CDC away from evidence-based practice and toward ideology-driven governance." Her essay on the CDC’s alarming shift: 👇🏽 https://t.co/XYeiWDbqRH
time.com
"Things have not improved," writes Dr. Debra Houry. "They have worsened. And Congress has still failed to act."
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NEW: "Arizonans with mental illness get new housing near the state hospital." (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
The transitional housing facility in Phoenix is for people with serious mental illness, including recent discharges from the Arizona State Hospital.
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Prop 409 passes, funding healthcare resources and education for students Valleywise Health received $898 million after Maricopa County voters approved bond. Read more @andiruiz2405: https://t.co/1MyKtBFdwk
statepress.com
The bond will contribute to growing Valleywise Health's behavioral healthcare and training facilities.
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NEW: "AI will have a say in approving or denying some AZ Medicare claims." (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
Arizonans enrolled in original Medicare will be test subjects for a controversial new program that makes use of AI to approve and deny claims.
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Blue Cross Blue Shield of Arizona cuts ties with one of Maricopa’s two OBGYNs. The AzCRH workforce report cited in the article on widening maternal healthcare provider shortage. To read more visit:
crh.arizona.edu
AzCRH workforce report cited in article on widening maternal healthcare provider shortage
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Kyrsten Sinema, psychedelic advocate, now a devotee of RFK's agenda? https://t.co/FoZHVx93AZ via @stephanieinnes
azcentral.com
Former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema is cozying up to the Trump administration's Make America Healthy Again movement, according to Politico.
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"As with all state agency heads, Johnston must be confirmed by a vote of the Republican-controlled state Senate." Story by @CamrynSanchezAZ via KJZZ:
kjzz.org
Gov. Katie Hobbs tapped longtime health care leader Debbie Johnston to lead the Department of Health Services on Monday. Johnston is the third person to lead the agency in three years.
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Donald Trump’s decision to appoint Dr. Ralph Lee Abraham to the number two role at the U.S. C.D.C. further undermines our nation’s public health infrastructure. Dr. Abraham has been on the wrong side of several important public health issues over the past decade. His track
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Good public health news today w/ @GovernorHobbs nomination of Debbie Johnston to lead @AZDHS I've known Debbie 20+ years & found her smart, thorough, & thoughtful. Her solid understanding of ADHS' licensing responsibilities is a big bonus. I'm optimistic.
azgovernor.gov
Phoenix, AZ - Today, Governor Katie Hobbs announced the appointment of Debbie Johnston to lead the Arizona Department of Health Services.
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The new @CDCgov misinfo is bad- but far worse is RFK Jr's end game - to remove vaccines from the child schedule (ending reimbursement) and/or bankrupting the vax compensation fund to stop the manufacture of kid vaccines. | @stephanieinnes
azcentral.com
One national patient safety advocate says the latest CDC update on vaccine safety is "pseudoscience taken to a whole new level."
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RFK Jr.'s CDC spreads false facts about vaccines, autism | story via @stephanieinnes
azcentral.com
One national patient safety advocate says the latest CDC update on vaccine safety is "pseudoscience taken to a whole new level."
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1/ https://t.co/dWldqRQcMM Many many many more experts weighed in than could be fit into the story. The scientific consensus is clear. Vaccines do not cause autism. See thread🧵 below.
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NEW: "Some Arizonans rethinking Obamacare coverage over 2026 sticker shock." (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
One estimate says up to 150,000 Arizonans could choose to give up their health insurance in 2026 because of higher costs of Obamacare plans.
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IMPORTANT: "People who attended a Tate McRae concert in Phoenix may have been exposed to measles." (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
As a measles outbreak on the Arizona-Utah border grows, new places of public exposure have been reported in Maricopa and Coconino counties.
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If you saw Tate McCrae’s show last week, you were exposed to measles
phoenixnewtimes.com
Maricopa County sent out the health alert Wednesday afternoon. Thousands may have been exposed.
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All rural AZ hospitals (& their patients) will suffer b/c of HR1... but Page Hospital, Copper Queen in Bisbee, Winslow Memorial, Cobre Valley in Globe, & Holy Cross in Nogales will suffer first & the most. Bookmark this piece via @stephanieinnes
azcentral.com
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs is asking for $1 billion to help rural health, but says it won't undo damage from the GOP's One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
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'Nearly 85% of kindergarteners at Cottonwood Elementary School in Colorado City had personal belief exemptions last year: just 7.7% of the kindergarten students were protected.' - (via @stephanieinnes) How do you help people who don't want help?
azcentral.com
A measles outbreak on the Arizona-Utah border is the second largest in the United States in 2025, which has been a record-setting year for measles.
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So many universities have college programs for poeple with intellectual disabilties. Despite its expansive charter, Arizona State University is not one of them. My latest for PHOENIX magazine.
phoenixmag.com
ASU should live up to its charter by including people with intellectual disabilities. Like my daughter.
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UPDATE WITH THE LATEST RESULTS: "'Yes' votes holding lead in Maricopa County's $900M Valleywise Health ballot measure." #Prop409 (via @stephanieinnes)
azcentral.com
Updated results posted Nov. 7 show Maricopa County voters passed the Valleywise Health measure. About 8,383 ballots are uncounted.
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