Jason Andrews

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:
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtkW...

‘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...
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/w...

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.
🔗 www.campograndenews.com.br/brasil/cidad...

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

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#IDSky

“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?

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

@thelancetinfdis.bsky.social @isglobal.org @mtbi.bsky.social

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
www.mercurynews.com/2025/05/31/o...

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.

Our lab retreated from the craziness of the world for a day (and night) to spend time together in nature. Camping at Lake Del Valle.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

My sincere thanks to Jeanne Marrazzo for her service as NIAID director. She delivered the Merigan lecture last year & then kindly met w/our trainees & faculty, listening openly to ideas & suggestions for how to make NIAID stronger. A brilliant yet humble physician-scientist. This is such a loss

TB Cases Rising Globally, Who Says. Should the US Be Worried? The WHO reports that tuberculosis cases in children are rising globally. Experts say a rise in TB cases in Europe could mean a future increase in cases in the United States.

www.healthline.com/health-news/...

‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts began at US health agencies | CNN A massive wave of job cuts began at US health agencies early Tuesday, with some employees receiving early morning emails that their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when the...

💔This is a sad & scary day. Jeanne Marrazzo is so smart & such a good leader. With her at the helm our field could sleep a little easier. Losing her leadership is devestating to #IDsky 🧪 & 🌍 health. These ✂️ to NIH workforce put us in grave danger. Now & for a long time.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...

Highly recommend this memoir by the son of Dr. Héctor Abad Gomez, public health physician & human rights advocate who was murdered by government-backed paramilitaries. A model of conviction & courage in face of powerful oppression. So relevant for our times. thank you @yiranliu.bsky.social

A graduate student with a valid student visa, having committed no crime, is detained by masked agents and sent 1,500 miles away. They do this to intimidate other students and suppress dissent. Fellow Professors, if you're not speaking out when they abduct our students, at what point will you?