Alison Gernand, PhD, MPH, RD

Where's Plumpy'Nut? A lifesaving food for malnourished kids is caught up in U.S. cuts It's a "ready-to-use therapeutic food" that's had remarkable success in treating malnourished kids. The State Department says it's still available. Factories and field workers have a different view.

www.npr.org/sections/goa...

Looking up data for a grant proposal (to improve women's health). This statement on government health websites is still absolutely shocking every time I see it:

I Was There: A Public Health Worker’s Response to the COVID.gov Rewrite What truly occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic? Is the new COVID.gov website accurate for those who worked in public health throughout the pandemic? A public health worker answers.

Well said...

www.infectioncontroltoday.com/view/i-was-t...

NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings

This will be a huge loss to research on women's health

www.science.org/content/arti...

Researchers Announce They Don’t Have Heart To Reveal What Will Happen To 1 In 5 Women

Researchers Announce They Don’t Have Heart To Reveal What Will Happen To 1 In 5 Women
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MYTH: People who receive food stamps don’t work. FACT: You are browsing the internet instead of working right now.

Food Stamps: Myth Vs. Fact
theonion.com/food-st...

Federal Funding and the Utah Clinical and Translational Science Institute Utah CTSI accelerates the journey of discoveries from bench to bedside, bringing new treatments to patients and communities who need them.

#NIH grant terminations now include University of Utah's CTSI.

healthcare.utah.edu/newsroom/new...

We need #NIH on BlueSky.

When I asked about it, someone at NIH shared this:

"NIH can’t use BlueSky at present because HHS requires a terms of service (TOS) and there is not an agreement in place at this time"

The full lethal impact of massive cuts to international food aid The sudden withdrawal of almost half of global funding for nutrition suddenly will have dire consequences for decades.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

March 26 lecture will explore use of medical AI in placenta analysis | Penn State University The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence will host Yimu Pan, a doctoral candidate in the College of Information Sciences and Technology, as part of its Young Achievers Sy...

Talk tomorrow on our #NIH #NIBIB funded PlacentaVision project by doctoral student in Information Sciences and Technology Yimu Pan (in person or zoom): www.psu.edu/news/researc...

Elon Musk’s IQ Is Irrelevant The leader of DOGE doesn’t know what he doesn’t know.

thedispatch.com/article/elon...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. (Gift Article) A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hundreds of Thousands Will Die The writer, surgeon, and former U.S.A.I.D. senior official Atul Gawande on the Trump Administration’s decimation of foreign aid and the consequences around the world.

www.newyorker.com/podcast/the-...

A lot of what we know about global health comes from the DHS. We use it to track maternal & child nutrition trends. I have published 4 papers using its data & I use it in my classes.

It celebrated its 40yr anniversary last year. It was ended, unceremoniously, yesterday.

A shock to the global nutrition system: Why nutrition scientists should challenge the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development and US withdrawal from the World Health Organization Imagine a world where over 1 million children across 85 countries died from a single nutrient deficiency — deaths that could be prevented with a semi-annual vitamin supplement. Millions of lives saved...

A shock to the global nutrition system: Why nutrition scientists should challenge the dismantling of the US Agency for International Development and US withdrawal from the World Health Organization - The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition ajcn.nutrition.org/article/S000...