Kathy Lancaster, PhD, MPH

We are hiring into 3 (THREE!) tenure track lines this year at Wake Forest — if you’re looking please reach out, I love chatting about our department! We are a vibrant group that love & embrace the teacher-scholar model 👩‍🏫

With hearings today, ICYMI: me and @nathancortez.bsky.social discussed in @jama.com how the FDA layoffs undermine its many statutory obligations & pose risks for public health, innovation, and every one of us. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

An image with a prescription pill bottle. Text on the image reads: 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through NIH

Did you know? 99% of all new medications resulted from federally-funded university research through #NIH

Learn more about #ResearchSavesLives: hub.jhu.edu/research-sav....

The sheer volume of time and energy being spent by thousands of university-based researchers in *every* field right now to figure out if their funding will exist next month or next year, if their careers can even continue… just citing dollar values doesn’t do it justice, it is full-scale upheaval.

Just a quick reminder from my colleague Dr. Tara McKay: inclusion of #women and #minorities in research is still federal law ( #PublicHealth & Welfare, amended 2007 ).

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NIH Grants Fueled $95 Billion In FY 2024 Economic Activity, Finds New Report National Institutes of Health grants generated almost $95 billion in economic activity nationwide in FY 2024 according to a new report by United for Medical Research.

NIH is the best investment there is.

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Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people All to save 0.08 percent of the budget.

"Killing PEPFAR means killing millions of people
All to save 0.08% of the budget."
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Trump says 'male circumcision in Mozambique' is a 'scam.' What's the program about? In his Tuesday address to Congress, President Trump listed U.S.-funded programs that he considers an "appalling waste" — including "$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique."

In high prevalence areas voluntary adult male circumcision reduces the risk of acquiring HIV through sex by up to 60%. This has been proven in multiple clinical trials & implemented in East + South Africa as a strategy to reduce new HIV infections. It is not a scam.
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More than a quarter million people deprived of #HIV treatment by termination notices to @egpaf.bsky.social

Late yesterday, we received award termination notices for three of our primary USAID agreements.

Read our full statement. pedaids.org/press-releas...

How Trump’s Medical Research Cuts Would Hit Colleges and Hospitals in Every State (Gift Article) Changes to a key funding formula will reduce research grants at hospitals and universities by billions — and may discourage future research.

NIH's proposal to cut the grants it pays for medical research will not just hurt elite coastal universities.

Who else has a lot at stake? The states of Missouri and North Carolina. The University of Texas Cancer Center. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center.

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If RFK wants to meaningfully decrease rates of depression, he can support paid family and maternity leave, equal pay for women, universal healthcare, and fully funded public schools.

Stigmatizing medication that treats the mental impact of a country that devalues your existence won’t cut it.

Abandoning research participants is an unconscionable betrayal In 1964, the Declaration of Helsinki created a set of universal ethical principles to protect human participants in health research.1 Described as “the cornerstone of research ethics,”2 these principl...

🧵 Trump’s USAID funding freeze abruptly halted critical global health research, abandoning participants mid-trial. A gross ethical violation. @bachynski.bsky.social & I explain what happened and why it matters @bmj.com . ⬇️
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Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk MSF is calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.

#USA: We are calling on the US government to immediately resume funding for the full range of PEPFAR operations as well as other critical health and humanitarian aid.

Uncertainty around PEPFAR program puts millions of people at risk

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Foreign aid is 1% of the US budget and helps millions! Elon Musk is lying to you. Spread the word tonight as he buys $40M in ads at the Super Bowl to try to convince you otherwise. Stop Musk. Help millions.
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Millions around the world are affected by this, including people in the US #saveforeignaid

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Olivia Gonzalez, MPH, BSN, RN on LinkedIn: #hiv #pepfar #stopworkorder As I work in my rural village in Malawi, a country where nearly 9% of the population lives with #HIV, fears associated with the pause in #PEPFAR funding are…

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Hearing - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

If you go back 100 years, the leading cause of death, by far, was infectious disease. What changed that? "Vaccination," NIH chief Dr Monica Bertagnolli tells House Appropriations hearing appropriations.house.gov/schedule/hea...

Ms DeLauro

A new hero! US Rep. Rosa DeLauro, to the NIH director in today's hearing.

"Your record .. is unparalleled in human history ... If we stop investigating infectious diseases, people will DIE! That needs to be said LOUDLY! and CLEARLY! in this environment we are in."

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