Daniel M. Parker

NIH Director Bhattacharya to lead CDC after O’Neill’s exit He's the third leader of the public health agency since this summer.

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Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

(Published Feb. 2025)

Maryland health officials warn providers about an upsurge in mumps cases Maryland health officials are warning about an uptick in cases of mumps.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading.

Now we’ve got mumps rolling up.

Expect more.

This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

Geospatial analysis of the impact of Cameroonian Anglophone Crisis conflict intensity on antenatal care utilisation - Communications Medicine Ngwang et al. perform an ecological cross-sectional study to assess how the protracted Anglophone Crisis influences antenatal care utilisation across the nation of Cameroon. They find that the intensi...

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I have been babysitting my friend’s (almost) 4 year old lately and here are three things I learned.

1. There is no sitting in babysitting.
2. Cat toys work well with toddlers as well.
3. Sesame Street is even better than I remember.

#ResearchHighlight from @bipinglobalhealth.bsky.social @moru-mip.bsky.social

Reimagining primary health care: a historical and contemporary scoping review of community-based primary health care models and innovations

👉 www.ndm.ac/tropmed.res-hi
Paper 👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Wayback is now so load-bearing we should be protecting it with our actual lives

Nick White

Reimagining primary health care: a historical and contemporary scoping review of community-based primary health care models and innovations Community-based primary health care (CBPHC) has long underpinned health service delivery in resource-limited settings. However, demographic shifts, in…

Malaria posts, Barefoot Doctors, Black Panthers, and more! (its about community based care): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @bipinglobalhealth.bsky.social

USDA postdoctoral fellowships are open. If you’re interested in writing a postdoc fellowship with me in plant immunity, spatial defense, or vector-borne disease, please reach out.
(US citizens, nationals, permanent residents only; PhD awarded Jan 2023–Jan 2027.) www.nifa.usda.gov/grants/progr...

When professional associations fail public health The destruction of Gaza's health system represents one of the worst humanitarian crises of our time and demands a response from professional health organisations. European public health associations h...

When professional associations fail public health

@amyhagopian.bsky.social

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GitHub - alanrogers/popgen: A course on population genetics A course on population genetics. Contribute to alanrogers/popgen development by creating an account on GitHub.

I taught (and co-taught) a course on human population genetics from 2000-2024. Having retired, I'm now making all the course materials public: github.com/alanrogers/p... #popgen #evbio

Reminders Of What Our Losses From CDC And USAID Mean With the loss of USAID and much of CDC, our ability to respond to pandemics is at risk. Global health issues are a growing threat.

Great article by @drjudystone.bsky.social about the impact cuts to government agencies are having on global health.

It was also noted that some international scientists refused to attend this conference because of ICE and racial profiling.

I am so deeply ashamed of our government.

Itiner-e: A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire - Scientific Data The Roman Empire’s road system was critical for structuring the movement of people, goods and ideas, and sustaining imperial control. Yet, it remains incompletely mapped and poorly integrated across sources despite centuries of research. We present Itiner-e, the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. It was created by identifying roads from archaeological and historical sources, locating them using modern and historical topographic maps and remote sensing, and digitising them with road segment-level metadata and certainty categories. The dataset nearly doubles the known length of Roman roads through increased coverage and spatial precision, and reveals that the location of only 2.737% are known with certainty. This resource is transformative for understanding how mobility shaped connectivity, administration, and even disease transmission in the ancient world, and for studies of the millennia-long development of terrestrial mobility in the region.

A new high resolution digital dataset and map — named Itiner-e — of roads throughout the Roman Empire around the year 150 CE is presented in research published in Scientific Data. The findings increase the known length of the Empire’s road system by over 100,000 kilometres. 🏺 🧪

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Mapping Water In the Desert - Cartographic Considerations
Rick Harris

Mapping water use, infrastructure, and conservations efforts in southern Nevada.

#NACIS2025

We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT

Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.

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How to Use Millions(!) of Historic Maps
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com

200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org

Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org

#NACIS2025

7. The UK culture and strategy in January 2020 Plans for the wrong virus

“In January 2020 Vallance convened a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies…The absence of any independent public health scientist, primary care expert, social scientist with expertise in inequalities or community mobilisation is striking. A culture of biomedicine not public health was dominant”

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Assessment of malnutrition in preschool-aged children by mid-upper arm circumference in the Gaza Strip (January, 2024–August, 2025): a longitudinal, cross-sectional, surveillance study After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an ...

New study in @thelancet.com

“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine - ICMU ICMU supports top-level research in mathematics, with special emphasis on training younger generations of scientists and the development of mathematics in Ukraine.

In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en

It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...

Oh my. Might have been fun for a short while. What a bad place we are in though

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Absolutely off the charts public health capacity on display here.

Writing Groups Write in community! Join a writing group Meet with a small cohort of faculty members and post-PhD researchers for mutual support, accountability, and dedicated writing time. Fall writing groups beg…

PSA for academic writers (post-PhD):

I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.

I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open

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We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠

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