Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM

A cold, misty Rhode Island morning. Taken yesterday. Today is rainy and gray.

Closing the Deal: Financing Our Security Against Pandemic Threats Public Briefing - NAM Join NAM’s public briefing on new report on pandemic preparedness and global health security. Learn key steps to finance prevention of future health threats.

Happening today at 11AM ET

Join @nam.edu for a high-level public briefing on the urgent actions needed to prevent biological catastrophe.

🗣️ Featuring an exceptional panel:
@noiweala.bsky.social, @drsethberkley.bsky.social, Jean Kaseya, @jarottingen.bsky.social, & Dr. Jane Halton.

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Exclusive: CDC to end all monkey research Studies related to HIV and other infectious diseases will be phased out, sources say; fate of the agency's animals remains unclear

EXCLUSIVE: CDC to end all monkey studies. Decision handed down by recent college grad and former DOGE employee who is now deputy chief of staff at the agency. Animals were being used in studies of HIV prevention. Some may be euthanized. My latest for @science.org

Mass. officials rebuke ‘dangerous’ vaccine misinformation added to CDC website Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines ...

"Massachusetts health officials are scrubbing links to federal health data from their web pages after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention this week promoted the debunked claim that vaccines cause autism."

www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

Opinion | RFK Jr. breaks yet another promise The HHS secretary pulls the CDC website into his fantasyland.

“The HHS secretary pulls the CDC website into his fantasyland.”

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Under RFK Jr., CDC reverses course on stance that vaccines don’t cause autism A CDC website now promotes the debunked idea of a link between vaccines and autism.

“All I can say is ‘Wake up, America. This administration wants to take your vaccines away from you. And they’re on a path to do that,’” Michael Osterholm, director of @cidrap.bsky.social

www.statnews.com/2025/11/20/c...

This is why we continue to call out dangerous attempts to dismantle public health in a short comment section on our Tracking Report. In today's report, I expressed outrage over the recent changes in language about vaccines on CDC's website. A most dangerous development that must be undone!

But while our Tracking Report is an attempt to help people identify credible health information, independent expert analyses like ours can never be replacement for evidence-based communication and information from government health agencies. Independent analysis is necessary but not sufficient.

Today's outrageous report of political tampering with vaccine information on CDC's website is yet another reason why independent, expert analyses of health information is necessary. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/h...

Every week, we provide independent analysis of on-going outbreaks and other serious health events. Increasingly, we've had to look beyond federal health sources for this information. 2/

Tomorrow marks the 1yr since launch of the @pandemiccenter.bsky.social's Tracking Report. Originally started to keep ourselves updated on the plethora of serious outbreaks, this free, weekly newsletter has taken on a new purpose as credible health info disappears. mailchi.mp/brown/tracki...

Opinion | Our Depressing Vaccine Future Laid Bare on the C.D.C. Website

“The bigger issue is that we will never be able to do a study that shows that vaccines do not cause autism, because you cannot do that kind of study...You cannot show that something does not cause something else.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/o...

I am thrilled to see my @pandemiccenter.bsky.social colleague and friend @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social being recognized as a top changemaker. Beth is unmatched in her determination and energy in working to take biological threats off the table. To know Beth is to be inspired. Brava, friend!

Global Health After the Breakpoint: Evidence for What Comes Next TUESDAY, DEC. 2 10-11:30 A.M. EST (15:00–16:30 GMT) 2025 has been a breakpoint for global health. Aid donors have slashed billions in funding, triggering catastrophic impacts. Amid these cuts, the global health system faces cascading shocks including geopolitical fragmentation, a retreat from multilateralism, climate-driven crises, massive human displacement from conflicts, and debt crises in many low- and middle-income countries that limit domestic health investments. There’s no going back to the ‘old’ global health. But what should come next? This webinar dives into the evidence: What parts of the current system are delivering real impact—and what’s failing miserably? What should we preserve, overhaul, or abandon altogether? Join us for a timely, evidence-driven discussion on how to rebuild global health for a more resilient, equitable and sustainable future.

Hey, 269 people have registered for our Dec 2 webinar on the future of global health (moderated by me!) but don't worry, you can cure your FOMO by registering now:

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Spark talk by John-Arne Røttingen
Panelists: Ebere Okereke, Nina Schwalbe, Osondu Ogbuoji, Sam McPherson

Grateful to @gabbystern.bsky.social for joining us today to share insights about communication as a key infrastructure to support global health in a conversation moderated by @craigspencer.bsky.social

Public Health in Practice Seminar Series: Gabriella Stern, Health Communication as Essential Infrastructure for Global Health On November 18, 2025, Craig Spencer, MD, MPH will host Gabriella Stern for an event in the Public Health in Practice Seminar Series titled Health C...

📣 Attention Brown University Community!

Join us in person next week @ 12PM for our next Public Health in Practice Seminar.

Join @craigspencer.bsky.social & @gabbystern.bsky.social for a timely discussion on health communication as essential infrastructure for global health.

More here ⤵️

Pandemic Financing The G20 High Level Independent Panel sets minimum annual benchmarks for pandemic financing and urges governments to take action by or before the September

Global health financing is shrinking as pandemic risks are rising. A G20 High Level panel on Pandemic Financing on which I served has called for urgent action from governments to protect against catastrophic losses. bit.ly/pandemicfina... #pandemicpreparedness #globalhealthsecurity

I am very glad for this important global effort to maintain progress on pandemic preparedness. Kudos to @pandemiccenter.bsky.social 's @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social for helping to lead this progress.

Rhode Island aurora.

DC-area folks: check this out!

The sun came out for a few minutes during the Veterans’ Day Ceremony just as we were reciting the Pledge of Allegiance.

Canada loses measles elimination status after three decades, health agency says Canada has lost its measles elimination status after nearly three decades due to its failure to curb a year-long outbreak, the country's public health agency said on Monday.

Canada lost its measles elimination status. The US is likely next (our 12month countdown ends in Jan). What an embarrassment. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Fair Doses: An Insider's Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity | The CommonHealth | CSIS Podcasts Listen to the recent CSIS Bipartisan Alliance for Global Health Security book launch of Fair Doses: An Insider’s Story of the Pandemic and the Global Fight for Vaccine Equity by Seth Berkley.

I enjoyed the book launch of Fair Doses at the Center for Strategic & International Studies. For those that missed it, here is the podcast.

www.csis.org/podcasts/com...

I don’t. But description sounds more like an evaluation than a treatment.

At least 7 people at Joint Base Andrews fall ill after suspicious package delivered with white powder, sources say | CNN Politics A suspicious package was delivered to a US military base in Maryland on Thursday which caused multiple people to fall ill and be taken to the hospital, CNN has learned.

"an initial field test from the HAZMAT team did not detect anything hazardous but the investigation, and efforts to identify the nature of the white substance remain ongoing...

individuals taken to the hospital were treated for their symptoms and subsequently released"

www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

Fmr Sec Rice:
“We are a nation of immigrants. We must stand up for them.”

“In America…we are united by creed…it doesn’t matter where you came from, it only matters where you are going. But that can only be true if people get a high quality education.”

Sec Rice: “We need to preserve the ability of people in universities to come up with ideas and get government research grants to innovate”

“I definitely think the US must be the place that welcomes the best talent in the world…I worry that…people wonder if the US is still the best place to come.”

Brown University President Christina Paxson in conversation with Fmr. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial lecture.

The moon this morning was 🤩