Jason Andrews

Global Climate and Health Summit The 2025 Global Climate and Health Summit placed physiology and partnerships at the heart of climate and health. Read more

🚨 The Interim Report of the Global Climate and Health Summit is out!

Please, read, share and connect with us. The second phase is open

Honoured to be a Vice-Chair of this Summit

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Updated Evidence for Covid-19, RSV, and Influenza Vaccines for 2025–2026 | NEJM Changes in the vaccine advisory process in the United States have disrupted immunization guidance, which reinforces the need for independent evidence review to inform decisions regarding immunizati...

NEW @nejm.org: We synthesized 511 recent studies on Covid-19, RSV & flu vaccines for 2025-26. With federal advisory processes disrupted, clinicians & the public need rigorous, independent evidence synthesis.

Here's what we found: 🧵
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Overall,only 50% of PDL released during TB therapy completed treatment successfully within 8 months. These findings highlight the critical need to develop & invest in systems for supportive transitional care. Work w/Yasmine Mabene @yiranliu.bsky.social @juliocroda.bsky.social @josebampi.bsky.social

The risk of unfavorable outcomes was 40% higher among those transferred during treatment and 60% higher among those released during treatment. Those released during the intensive phase (first two months) of therapy had twice the risk of poor outcomes. 4/5

Tuberculosis treatment outcomes after transfer or release from incarceration: a retrospective cohort study from Brazil - BMC Global and Public Health Background Tuberculosis (TB) disproportionately affects people deprived of liberty (PDL). Prior studies have shown higher TB treatment completion rates among PDL compared to the general population. Ho...

In this new study, by linking TB notification data with incarceration and mortality databases, we found that one-third of individuals who were treated for TB in prisons were transferred to another prison or released during therapy. 3/5
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Gaps in medical care at this transition also threaten the health of PDL. While incarcerated individuals have better TB outcomes than the general population in Brazil, outcomes for individuals who are released while on treatment has been less clear. 2/5

All-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil: A retrospective cohort study In a retrospective cohort study, Yiran E Liu and colleagues investigate all-cause and cause-specific mortality during and following incarceration in Brazil.

The transition from prison to community is often a socially and medically vulnerable moment for persons deprived of liberty (PDL). Our previous work found that PDL in Brazil have 3x ⬆️ risk of mortality after prison release compared with others in their community 1/5 journals.plos.org/plosmedicine...

Jeanne Marrazzo and Kathy Neuzil are known for their integrity, their selflessness and their scientific rigor. Their voices carry enormous weight in the scientific community. #NIH

We are heartbroken by the death of Mariam Abu Dagga, a freelance photographer who frequently worked with Doctors Without Borders in #Gaza.

Mariam was one of at least 20 people killed during Israel’s horrendous attacks on the Nasser medical complex on August 25, 2025.

#BREAKING 🚨 Four journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri, are among 20 dead in an Israeli strike on Gaza's Nasser hospital

The second strike was captured live on television as rescue crews were seen in the building attempting evacuate the injured

Rapid, low-cost colorimetric detection of Salmonella Typhi bacteriophages for environmental surveillance | mBio Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella Typhi, remains a significant global health threat, particularly in low-resource settings with inadequate sanitation. Effective control measures, such as vaccines, r...

We developed a very low-cost, low-complexity approach that leverages colorimetric detection of Salmonella Typhi bacteriophages to monitor its distribution in wastewater, with demonstration data from Nepal, Brazil, Ivory Coast, and Niger. Results now published here:
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Wastewater-based epidemiology & surveillance have made enormous strides in recent years, demonstrating utility in characterizing pathogen distributions in populations. However, current methods are too costly to be scalable in LMICs where the need for improved disease surveillance is greatest. (1/2)

YouTube video by TEDx Talks What directing the CDC taught me about compassion | Rochelle Walensky | TEDxBerlin

Rochelle Walensky's powerful new TED Talk isn't about politics or policy. It's about people and the compassion that drives her.

"In our darkest moments, how we serve one another, how we treat one another, is ultimately what defines us."

Highly recommended:
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‘Classic tin pot dictator’: inside Trump’s extraordinary assault on Brazil’s democracy US president seems to be weaponizing tariffs to punish Brazil for its coup trial against his ally Bolsonaro

"Over the past six months, Donald Trump has been accused of rapidly dragging the largest democracy in the Americas towards authoritarianism. Now, the US president seems bent on undermining the region’s second largest democracy too." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Believe Climate Change Isn’t Dangerous

Great piece from Stanford colleagues about the Administration's attempts to overturn the EPA's protections regarding climate change and its impacts on health: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o...

U.S. Hits Brazil With Tariffs and Sanctions on Judge, in Sharp Escalation

Our administration is abusing the Magnitsky Act to meddle in Brazil's domestic legal affairs because they hate to see the rule of law be applied for an attempted coup, the precedent that sets...
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MS lidera ranking de novos casos de tuberculose em presídios Boletim epidemiológico sobre a tuberculose em pessoas privadas de liberdade, divulgado pelo Ministério da Saúde, mostra que foram registrados 7.718 novos ...

🚨 Apenas 50% dos casos de tuberculose nas instituições penais são diagnosticados. Se todos os estados adotassem a triagem em massa com radiografia de tórax — como já fazem MS e MT — poderíamos mudar esse cenário.
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Projecting the impact and costs of near point-of-care tuberculosis screening assays in community-based active case finding Community-based active case finding (ACF) may reduce tuberculosis incidence and mortality but is not widely implemented due to resource constraints. How novel screening test characteristics would affect the impact and costs of ACF strategies is not clear.

Projecting the impact and costs of near point-of-care tuberculosis screening assays in community-based active case finding

✅ Just Accepted
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“Even God Cannot Hear Us Here”: What I Witnessed Inside an ICE Women’s Prison Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk opens up about her 45 days in a South Louisiana processing facility—and the generous and compassionate women she met.

"This narrative of human suffering, set in 2025, is filled with tears and resilience. It is a story of women. It is our story. It could very well be your story too." An essay on the inhuman conditions that ICE is confining people in, and the most beautiful sides of humanity of them coming together.

Photos: Israelis kill Palestinian children near water distribution point Attack comes day after Israel’s deadliest bombardment killed 110 people, including 34 awaiting aid at a site in Rafah.

110 people killed in one day, with dozens including children at food and water distribution points, and it's not even headline news anymore. Our governments are all ok with this? www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025...

Long as I live I will not be able to comprehend the cruelty of those who cheer on the act of tearing fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, children from their communities and putting them in cages, all for having been born on a different portion of the rock we are hurtling through space upon.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

We just published a piece about the participation of people deprived of liberty in #tuberculosis vaccine trials. Should they be protected from research, or through research?

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RFK Jr: "My vision is that every American is wearing a wearable within four years."
Cost: $27 billion
RCTs proving population health benefit: 0
Meanwhile, US contribution to Gavi vaccines: $1.2B over 4 years
RCTs supporting Gavi vaccines: >300
Children vaccinated: >1 billion
Lives saved: >17 million

These are the Iranian voices we should be listening to — Nobel laureates calling for peace.
#Iran #Israel #CeasefireNow

Powerful piece by my colleague @jakescottmd.bsky.social on the disastrous actions of RFK Jr and what it means for trust in science

Opinion: One-size-fits-all placebo rule would slow Bay Area vaccine updates A pending Department of Health and Human Services regulation risks harming public health and stalling innovation.

My op-ed in the Mercury News:

A proposed HHS rule would delay vaccine updates and stall innovation by forcing unnecessary placebo trials.

It’s bad science — and worse public health.

@mercurynews.com
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The myth that vaccines weren’t tested with controls isn’t just wrong - it’s measurably wrong.

Now the data are all in one place.

This is what public science looks like: transparent, crowd-sourced, open to anyone.
@nytimes.com @statnews.com @kffhealthnews.org
@npr.org @drandrealove.bsky.social

The Trump regime is now using US Attorneys to intimidate academic journals by sending them letters demanding they explain how they ensure ‘viewpoint diversity.’ Journal editors should be public about this and coordinate to refuse to comply with these fascist tactics.