Jennifer Reich

No matter your views on #immigration or your politics, we should all agree that a federal campaign that aims to terrorize children is unacceptable. And to name it after a #Disney movie is horrific @filmandseries.bsky.social

Opinion | What Really Drives Vaccine Hesitancy

Very astute essay by @jenniferreich.bsky.social explaining vaccine hesitancy as part of a broader individualistic approach to health
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

I wanted to remind everyone about the "Save AIDS Research" livestream that will go live on YouTube this Tuesday (9/16) at 11:00am EDT. We have an amazing program of 70+ speakers who will be sharing their latest research. Get all the details at www.saveaidsresearch.org.

I am excited to join so many amazing scholars around the world to speak out about the importance of research. Join us.

CDC's No-Bid Contract on Vaccine-Autism Study Raises Alarm Award to Rensselaer to investigate link is 'unprecedented,' says expert

A no-bid research contract is unheard of and this one is opposed by more than 250 autism scientists.
www.medpagetoday.com/neurology/au...

Kennedy picks seven new members for US CDC vaccine panel, document shows U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has chosen seven new members for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's panel of vaccine experts, an internal CDC document showed on Wednesday.

When I say these nominees are entirely unqualified for #acip, I can offer that the one I know personally told his wife to pray for a spontaneous vasectomy reversal instead of surgery. That’s the level of scientific expertise we are talking about. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

We tell high school and college students to remember before they post that the internet is everywhere and forever. Perhaps they should discuss this in med school too? Or in the executive branch?

Maybe football can be what unites us toward a shared belief that young people dying unnecessarily is bad?

But gosh. The view from the hill where you can see all those roads meet up.

Six amazing books in the @nyupress.bsky.social series, Health, Society, and Inequality are out! And more are coming soon. So proud to be a part of this work. @ralmeling.bsky.social @katemasonsociology.bsky.social @andreabeckerphd.bsky.social
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I am excited to share that vol 51 of the Annual Review of Sociology is now open access. It includes my article on the politics of healthcare and so many great reviews.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

So maybe hating pedophiles and the hiding of them is the thing that unites the country? A low bar but I’ll take it.

Where is all that "health freedom" these guys promised? Cause all I've seen is decreasing choices for my family and myself when it comes to vaccination.

HHS backtracks on pledge to disclose new vaccine advisers’ conflicts of interest RFK Jr. has pledged radical transparency, but his vaccine advisers' financial disclosures aren't public.

Remember how we were promised transparency? New idea. Let's Make America Qualified and Ethical Again. (I admit, the acronym needs work.) www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/k...

Thanks to a federal judge appointed by Trump, medical debt can now go back on your credit report. We great yet?

When the cruelty is the point.

I really thought not selling federal lands off might be the thing that united us. I mean, right after not letting children die.

Statement on June 2025 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Meeting NFID strongly supports the use of evidence-based guidance reviewed by qualified experts, within CDC and externally, to inform public health policy, and will work to protect the health of people across...

“Immunization policy decisions must be guided by science. The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is gravely concerned with the flawed process that occurred during the recent Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting on June 25-26, 2025.”
www.nfid.org/statement-on...

I have been studying vaccine policy and politics for 20 years. This moment is so much worse than I ever imagined. And I am pretty imaginative.

No one on Kennedy's vaccine advisory committee is an expert in immunology and BOY does it show

RFK Jr. is making it more difficult to enroll in Obamacare The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage.

Destroying healthcare systems and lives brick by brick.
The Trump administration projects as many as 1.8 million people, including many DACA recipients, could lose coverage.

This is clearly not how to increase trust. Imagine any other industry where people with no training or qualification get to tell experts how to do their job or tell families how to protect themselves and their children. Informed consent requires informed decisions.

Well. At the rate we are going, every learned society will have to drop American from their names.

If you’re thinking, “wait a second, they have completely politicized this process and done so with zero transparency—how is that supposed to increase trust in vaccines?” You are correct. This is absurd. We are through the looking glass. This would be farcical if lives weren’t at stake.

I feel exactly the same. I was just trying to explain the difference to someone yesterday and what we lost.

The process for ACIP membership usually takes years of vetting, particularly for conflicts of interest. Have these people undergone the same level of scrutiny? I'm pretty sure Malone has made money from saying falsely that mRNA vaccines are unsafe.

🧵 The anatomy of misinformation: 🧠🐛's inflammatory weekend thread attacking CDC's vaccine safety data (VSD) and defending the controversial David Geier
Was it just weekend noise? Or groundwork for firing all 17 members of ACIP today?
Let’s break it down.
#SaveCDC #SaveACIP #FireRFKJr

A Half-Century of Prevention — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the U.S. government on vaccinati...

If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Health secretary RFK Jr. abruptly fires CDC vaccine advisory panel — STAT This is a breaking story. It will be updated

#ACIP started in 1964 to ensure equitable access to #vaccines and monitor safety and efficacy. They have removed recommendations when supported by data and have hard public discussions about resources and needs of those at risk. RFK’s decision to fire these highly vetted experts is a threat to all