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Michelle Tam

@michelletam.bsky.social

Postdoc @hsph.harvard.edu & @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social | queer health, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, mixed-methods | she/her

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Congratulations to the team for such a phenomenal contribution!

06.05.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.

πŸ“£Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue.

In our latest research pub:
LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers.

πŸ“„@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth

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06.05.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH

Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ

Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social

Long 🧡 on why I'm suing πŸ‘‡

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02.04.2025 19:52 β€” πŸ‘ 9414    πŸ” 1971    πŸ’¬ 189    πŸ“Œ 75

🧬 Key scientific leaders are being removed! 🧬

NIH directorsβ€”known for their expertise and institutional knowledgeβ€”are being ousted

Result?
βœ…Undermines public health
βœ…Erodes scientific integrity
βœ…Risks unchecked actions

A short 🧡

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#NIH #CDC #FDA #AcademicSky #MedSky #Science

01.04.2025 19:31 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 10    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

26.03.2025 17:41 β€” πŸ‘ 36681    πŸ” 16378    πŸ’¬ 1860    πŸ“Œ 1051

Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes.

The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year.

That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH.
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28.03.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 537    πŸ” 265    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 16
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πŸš€ Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! πŸ“ŠπŸ‘‡

Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! πŸ•΅οΈπŸ”

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#HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth

25.03.2025 10:21 β€” πŸ‘ 71    πŸ” 45    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 4
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β€˜It breaks my heart’: New wave of cuts to NIH research grants hit Mass. hard - The Boston Globe Fenway Health lost five grants in one day.

truly devastating degree of cuts to LGBTQ+ health research last week - grateful to @bostonglobe.com for covering this and the negative impacts it will have on queer communities here in Mass

#episky
#medsky

26.03.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 27    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A graphic that says, make a pledge at hsph.me/lgbtq-give

A graphic that says, make a pledge at hsph.me/lgbtq-give

How can you support our LGBTQ+ health equity research? 1. Pledging to donate (or learn more): hsph.me/lgbtq-give

2. Subscribe to our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20012...

3. Follow us and share
#SupportLGBTQ #HealthEquity

24.03.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.

ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️
#LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth

24.03.2025 17:10 β€” πŸ‘ 14    πŸ” 11    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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