Today is World Homeless Day
Honored to join the podcast: “Our Shared Challenges: International Perspectives on Homelessness”
Grateful to Porchlight, Jihad Malasi, Joe Tay Teck, and Tom Neumark for such a rich and hopeful exchange
#WorldHomelessDay #HousingFirst #HealthEquity #Homelessness
RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”
Let’s prove him wrong
Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
#VaccineTrust
#PublicHealth
#MedSky
“Morally wrong and politically suicidal”
Even Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm on Trump’s slash to #Medicaid. @mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social
explain why rural Republican voters will pay the price @thehill.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social in the house!
Pride marchers light up a Jacksonville Bridge
www.erininthemorning.com/p/defying-de...
NEW: Kennell Staten filed a complaint with HUD, saying he was denied an apartment for being gay — a complaint the agency had long taken seriously.
Two days later, HUD informed him that it did not view allegations like his as subject to federal law.
By @jessecoburn.bsky.social
It’s so strange seeing oneself on camera… but this really speaks to why I do what I do!
Hot take: probably more accurately representative than The Pitt 🤓🏥🚑
#EMsky #SAEM25 #MedSky
His crusade at #HHS is a masterclass in dressing up conspiracy theories in lab coats. Sorry #RFKJr, but sounding like science isn’t the same as sound science #MakeAmericaSmartAgain
If you care about #healthequity, #emergencymedicine, or #housingjustice — this one's for you!
Let's replace stigma with structure
Let's meet people where they are
Let’s move from reaction to transformation
#HousingIsHealth
Structural competency means understanding health as shaped by policy, power, and infrastructure
We make the case for embedding this approach into medical education and EM practice. #MedEd
Biases in care—including assumptions about drug use, personal responsibility, or "ED misuse"—can lead to missed diagnoses, premature discharges, and moral distress for providers.
We need a shift in training, perspective, and policy. #homelessness #unhoused
New in @aemet.es: Our team breaks down persistent myths about homelessness in emergency medicine and offers a #structuralcompetency framework to guide better care, research, and advocacy
#EMSky #SocialEM #MedSky #PublicHealth
@yale-em.bsky.social
“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”
In the face of authoritarian overreach, Harvard chose the Constitution over capitulation.
This is a line in the sand. Let’s make integrity ordinary again.
#AcademicFreedom #DefendDemocracy #HigherEd
#3 for sure. 7 inches is enough to teleport to the other side of a locked door… 😇
#Housing #Homeless #HomelessHousing #Program 🥰💚
invisiblepeople.tv/from-vacant-...
Senators Bill Cassidy and Bernie Sanders have summoned RFK Jr. to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to ‘splain himself. I suspect that Cassidy will once again be snowed by RFK Jr.’s penchant for exceptionally skilled lying. www.politico.com/live-updates...
"Over the past four years, 97 percent have either remained at the Lenniger or moved to other housing."
In-depth reporting on life in PSH in @nytimes.com with key messages 🧵
Two Years in a Place Where Homelessness Ends www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
“‘Leadership won’t matter,’ he said. ‘What will really matter and make a difference is a response from the ground up.’ That is, for the citizens of this country to rise up and defend democracy…We won’t be saved by leaders, but by ourselves”
Also worth noting Biden’s DoJ had brought a suit against Idaho for violating EMTALA (by banning abortions even in emergencies). The Tr*mp regime has dropped the case, so pregnant people in Idaho can continue to be die from being denied life-saving abortions
This is one of my favorite graphics to use in demonstrating vaccine effectiveness against measles. There’s a tendency to think that our local situation is different (better) than elsewhere so that maybe vaccines aren’t as helpful. Nebraska is the line between ND and NH (alphabetical by abbreviation)
Science communication is never neutral — especially now. This piece digs into how researchers are navigating vaccine skepticism, disinformation, and the urgent need to communicate #science with rigor, clarity, and courage.
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#DefendPublicHealth
#VaccineTrust
#PublicHealth
#MedSky
Mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block
#addictionmedicine #publichealth #DOGE
From @wsj.com, RFK Jr./DOGE are planning to cut 10,000 technical & scientific experts from HHS on top of the 10,000 who have left amid the Trump administration's efforts to silence experts, shroud these agencies in further secrecy, & promote disinformation. 3500 or 19% of FDA will be fired. #MedSky
Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people.
thehill.com/policy/healt...
Honored to be featured alongside @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in this piece on @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and the growing movement of clinicians, researchers, and advocates pushing back against attacks on #science and #publichealth
We’re just getting started!
#Medsky #Episky #ScienceNotSilence
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The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.
If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.
Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.
☎️ ☎️ Get those phones out folks! Protect #CDC #HIVPrevention Division
Defunding/eliminating the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division, jeopardizes decades of progress in fighting #HIV/AIDS.
#DefendPublicHealth #ActionAlert #IDsky #Episky #Medsky #PublicHealth
click and call 👇
HUD's work profoundly affects people’s lives: HUD backs loans for homes, apartments, and nursing homes, helps seniors and people with disabilities on fixed incomes stay in their homes, finances new affordable buildings, helps prevent discrimination, and more.
www.startribune.com/cuts-to-hud-...
The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org
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