Jodie L. Guest, PhD, MPH

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This is today’s CDC's website.

Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS), used for decades to create safe prevention strategies for kids is gone. Data for #chronic disease, #HIV, and risky foods in #pregnancy are gone. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry is missing.

Today 10 #Faculty Champions led 120 teams of all 1st year nursing, medicine & public health students at Emory through our #Interprofessional Health Challenge hackathon where they’ll create concepts to promote better health in Emory’s signature #IPE program.@emoryrollins.bsky.social #academicsky

Dt. Tina-Ann Thompson holding a framed award certificate

Dr. Jodie Guest holding a framed award certificate

So proud of Voices of Health award recipients @tina-ann.bsky.social and @jlguest.bsky.social! Dr. Thompson and Dr. Guest are making a profound impact on health and well-being through their commitment to community engagement and health equity initiatives. #AcademicMedicine #MedSky #PublicHealth

Honored by this recognition! Communicating science and health information in ways that promote trust, health equity, and healthier lives has never been more important. #scicomm #academicsky #publichealth @emoryuniversity.bsky.social

Posttraumatic stress disorder and its associations with antiretroviral therapy among veterans with HIV - PubMed PTSD increased ART nonadherence and ART modifications. Providers should screen for PTSD so that it can help guide medical decisions and treatment; particular attention should be paid to Veterans with ...

Our faculty @jlguest.bsky.social's "Posttraumatic stress disorder and its associations with antiretroviral therapy (ART) nonadherence and among veterans with HIV" shows PTSD increased ART and recommends increased PTSD screening #HIV #AIDS #PublicHealth #MedSky
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The freeze of work and communication.. “signal an intention to drastically impede important scientific research during the course of his second term. Things can get worse from here if we don’t speak up now.”
#academicsky #publichealth #NIH

Trump officials ask US health agencies to pause external communications, Washington Post reports The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external communications, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports, updates to websites and social media posts, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, citing a dozen current and former officials and sources.

“The admin…has instructed federal health agencies to pause all external comms, such as health advisories, weekly scientific reports...”
Timely/clear #communication is key. Restricting access to info or preventing dissemination is antithetical to #publichealth.

Our world is connected. Working together and recognizing the humanity and health of all is the way we stay safe and healthy. #WHO #publichealth #academicsky #publichealthsky #epidemiology

RFK Jr. Would ‘Significantly Undermine’ Public Health, a Group of Experts Says A coalition opposing the nominee for health secretary includes faculty members from leading U.S. academic institutions, including public health schools at Yale and Havard.

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After the CDC confirmed the first death from H5N1 bird flu on Monday, we're sure you have questions. We sat down with @jlguest.bsky.social to get answers!

Building my long list of things I need to do in time I cannot find. #academicsky

Nobel Laureates Urge Senate to Turn Down Kennedy’s Nomination Elevating Mr. Kennedy to secretary of H.H.S. “would put the public’s health in jeopardy,” more than 75 laureates wrote.

Noble Laureates oppose RFK for cabinet: “In addition to his lack of credentials or relevant experience in medicine, science, public health, or administration, Mr. Kennedy has been an opponent of many health-protecting and life-saving vaccines” #academicsky #episky

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Texas lawmakers are scrutinizing university professors’ influence. Here's how faculty shape their universities. Faculty senates have long played a key role in developing curriculum and protecting open inquiry. State leaders have also accused them of liberal indoctrination.

Faculty senates should play an important role in university governance. #academicsky

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Love this!

😂😂 #academicsky

I particularly love this video. I’d send it in! 😂

I never remember that reference season is so time consuming. #academicsky

A. Cornelius Baker, Champion of H.I.V. Testing, Dies at 63 (Gift Article) Working inside the government and out, he lobbied to improve the lives of people with H.I.V. and AIDS, particularly those who belonged to minority groups.

What a life.

A. Cornelius Baker, who spent nearly 40 years working with urgency and compassion to improve the lives of people with HIV and AIDS by promoting testing, securing federal funding for research and pushing for a vaccine, died this month. He was 63.

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The Great Barrington Declaration was NOT great.

Policies have deep implications for the health of women and families. Lack of access will take a long time to build back. #publichealth #reproductive #healthcare

Sarah McBride is a #Masterclass in grace and the reason people should be in politics, to help their constituents.

#birdflu in #rawmilk in California.

Trump’s previous Surgeon General.

So agree

I miss all of those things

#CDC has confirmed the 1st U.S. case of H5 #bird #flu in a child. The patient had mild symptoms, received flu antivirals, and is recovering. An investigation into the child’s possible H5 exposure source is ongoing.

Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA Our analysis confirms the continued existence of different Americas within the USA. One's life expectancy varies dramatically depending on where one lives, the economic conditions in that location, an...

Ten Americas: a systematic analysis of life expectancy disparities in the USA. In Lancet today this study finds US life expectancy disparities has grown over the last two decades with differences increasing from 12.6 years in 2000 to 20.4 years in 2021. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...