@gavinyamey.bsky.social
Hymowitz Family Professor of Global Health & Professor of Public Policy at Duke University. Director of the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health. DJ at WXDU (Thursdays, 4-6pm ET, wxdu.org). TIME columnist. He/him. Tallest Jew on Earth.
Yup 👇
10.08.2025 22:49 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0How kind of you to bake brownies; they are lucky to have you as a friend.
It’s hard to get your head around the fact that the man charged with leading HHS is a genuine threat to health.
#ResignRFK needs to trend.
10.08.2025 21:51 — 👍 101 🔁 30 💬 2 📌 4RFK Jr must resign and I believe those of us who work in healthcare, public health, health research, or any related field should demand his resignation
10.08.2025 21:50 — 👍 469 🔁 139 💬 12 📌 7Ugh, imagine hearing the utterly mind-blowing news that RFK Jr brought Vinay Prasad back again as YOUR BOSS 🤯
“FDA workers reacted to the decision to bring back Prasad with incredulousness, according to one FDA staffer who said several coworkers were alternating between being sad and concerned”
“The return of Prasad marks a personnel victory for HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”
Vinay Prasad was previously a huge supporter of RFK Jr—the world’s most extreme, dangerous & notorious anti-vaxxer & conspiracy theorist—so no surprises about the quid pro quo
www.politico.com/news/2025/08...
Virginia's Eastern Shore? We were there last week! (Cape Charles)
10.08.2025 14:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0“There are nearly 40 chapters in The War on Science, all pockmarked by omissions, misrepresentations, and, sometimes, obvious lies.”
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Curtis Mayfield: Back to the World
The perfect Sunday morning album does not exis……
10.08.2025 12:59 — 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Unconscionable
10.08.2025 02:54 — 👍 24 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
Not just endangering US public health but global health
www.thetimes.com/us/news-toda...
Per ProPublica, RFK Jr and Russell Vought have gone out of their way to demonize the CDC and federal workforce.
Vought, on video: “We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected.” Also, he expressed his desire that they be “increasingly viewed as the villains.”
Again, stochastic terrorism.
Exclusive: CDC Director Susan Monarez met with its vaccine-focused center to talk about yesterday’s shooting. I listened to a recording. Scientists and officials are shaken & pointing fingers at RFK Jr. Many said his vilification and misinfo turned them into targets. www.msnbc.com/opinion/anal...
09.08.2025 22:03 — 👍 9951 🔁 3699 💬 269 📌 232Ugh
RFK Jr "has been a prominent voice raising doubts about Covid vaccinations"
He called the Covid vaccine "the 'deadliest' ever made — that directly contradict evidence that has shown the shot to be overwhelmingly effective"
He called the CDC "a fascist enterprise" & "cesspool of corruption"
Brilliant 👇
09.08.2025 16:42 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The totally kooky MAGA/MAHA/anti-vaxx/Great Barrington Declaration soap opera continues…..
09.08.2025 16:10 — 👍 35 🔁 8 💬 5 📌 2I get that “taste is taste and each to their own, without judgement” but 🍍 on 🍕 is almost as bad a food crime as 🐓 on 🍕 😉
09.08.2025 14:42 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Correct
09.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ah yes, Jeffrey Tucker, the anti-vaxxer who conceived, sponsored, edited, & marketed the Great Barrington Declaration & who is a neo-confederate (talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/jeffr...). Such a shock to see the GBD are now anti-vaxx MAGA/MAHA allies pushing an extreme right wing Trump/RFK Jr agenda!
09.08.2025 13:25 — 👍 11 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
08.08.2025 23:40 — 👍 20 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I opened my radio show yesterday with this
It is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever recorded—recorded live at Chicago’s Adler Planetarium & released on the 1993 album “African Skies”
If this does not make your soul vibrate, check to see if you have a pulse!
youtu.be/9RDYhUAnFuk?...
That’s one word for it 🤣
08.08.2025 22:12 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Striped socks and floral shoes
Things are terrible. So I am wearing ridiculous footwear & socks to lift my spirits. It’s working!
08.08.2025 22:04 — 👍 57 🔁 2 💬 4 📌 0Thank you. This is NOT reassuring at all. I will pass.
08.08.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I share your skepticism, though this is a Springer Nature journal not MDPI, so maybe that counts for something? (Or maybe not!)
08.08.2025 18:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Yup. It’s all about the MAGA and MAHA agenda, all of the time. He’s there to make sure Trump and RFK Jr are kept happy 😢
08.08.2025 18:30 — 👍 33 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 2Thanks Lars, much appreciated
08.08.2025 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Does anyone have any experience with the OA journal 'Discover Health Systems' that they may be willing to share?
They've asked if I might guest edit a collection, but I don't know much about the journal (other than that they're published by Springer Nature).....
link.springer.com/journal/44250
I think it's time for me to take a break from looking at the news; seeing the extreme cruelty, every single day, from Trump, RFK Jr, and their MAGA and MAHA henchmen is intolerable
08.08.2025 17:37 — 👍 14 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0I have HUGE respect for @kff.org & @kffhealthnews.org; I work in health policy & I can say confidently that they are an essential, highly trusted source of information & analysis. I read KFF materials every day!
How absolutely pathetic & disgraceful for Jay Bhattacharya to accuse KFF of lying 🤮
