Prabhat Jha

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Your new user interface on tbe app is dreadful. Shows for trips the booking ref and nothing else. Please correct immediately.
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Time for Canada to offer to move the UN from the USA to Canada (preferably one Eastern and one Western city)?

Win-win-win for the UN independence, for urban economic growth and for Canada politically.
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A powerful session at #PrevConf25 on why health inequalities must be front and centre in cancer risk and primary prevention—co-chaired by Profs Davis & Bhatla, with key insights from Prof Chambwe, Prof Chibwesha, Dr McCullough & @countthedead.bsky.social.

"They took her in a car, in essence kidnapping her ... I met another young woman whose husband has quite literally disappeared" -- Newsom shares harrowing details of specific cases of ICE terrorizing immigrants in California

#episky #mortality
📣 #Sweden #HMD series updated through 2024

🔓 Data is freely available at mortality.org

In 2024, the gap between #lifeexpectancy for men at birth and women at birth continues to narrow in Sweden.

HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings The Trump administration has reversed the firings of hundreds of staffers at the CDC.

#TobRegSky #PedSky #MedSky #EpiSky #addictionsci #policysky #polisky 🧪🛟 🫁
HHS reverses hundreds of CDC firings, including of staff of the Division of Environmental Health Science and Practice. But not the Office of Smoking and Health (OSH).
www.statnews.com/2025/06/11/h...

What we know about unauthorized immigrants living in the U.S. The unauthorized immigrant population in the U.S. grew to 11 million in 2022, but remained below the peak of 12.2 million in 2007.

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11 Million Illegal immigrants in the US- and understanding where/why is essential to any non-hate based solution.

Effective Tobacco Taxation Reduces Deaths and Increases Revenue - দ্যা নিউজ Economists and public health experts have stated that implementing effective taxes and price hikes on tobacco products, free from the interference of tobacco companies, in the upcoming FY 2025–26 budg...

Years ago... we came up with a simple spreadsheet to calculate live saved from higher cig tax... Still be used... eg Bangladesh... Effective Tobacco Taxation Reduces Deaths and Increases Revenue thenewse.com/effective-to... @tcrgbath.bsky.social

Opinion | These Internal Documents Show Why We Shouldn’t Trust Porn Companies

External regulation!!! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/o...

Universal Antivenom May Grow Out of Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him Hundreds of Times Scientists identified antibodies that neutralized the poison in whole or in part from the bites of cobras, mambas and other deadly species.

Really cool universal antivenom for snakebites?~100K snakebite deaths a year, including ~50K in India
elifesciences.org/articles/54076
Universal Antivenom from Man Who Let Snakes Bite Him www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...
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To 258 million American friends, I am so pleased Donald Trump single handedly stopped you from overdosing on Fentynl. Phew! That was close.

Opinion | The Uncertain Fate of the Young American Scientist Young researchers are choosing between staying in science and staying in the United States.

The Next Generation of American Scientists Is Losing Faith www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o...

2025 PGME Global Health Day Current and Incoming Residents and Fellows and Faculty are invited to attend the 12th Annual PGME Global Health Day.

Please join me on May 21st for a stimulating discussion on global health featuring Sir Richard Peto, Prof Dean Jamison, and many others. Online and free. Register at:
www.eventbrite.ca/e/2025-pgme-...
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Opinion | Covid’s Deadliest Effect Took Five Years to Appear (Gift Article) What once belonged to all of us now belongs to corporations.

Siddhartha Mukherjee's troubling diagnosis of Public Health erosion in the US.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/o...
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I don’t blame the lobsters

Dear Friends in the US. You will understand why I am cancelling all trips, vacations in the US and purchases of American products. Canada and our brothers/sisters in Mexico will not be bullied by one man.

An afternoon on the hospice piano As a composer, I have channelled emotions into art for as long as I can remember. When death was still only an abstract concept to me, I approached it with tentative curiosity. I allowed myself to fee...

Shreya Jha writes thoughtfully about death, arts, and medical care.
www.cmaj.ca/content/197/...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article) Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.

Trump/Musk actions will kill people. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h... @stephanienolen.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social @who.int

India’s high tax rates: Boon for bureaucrats, bane for the economy India has one of the highest GST rates globally, leading to lower tax revenue efficiency and economic activity. High tax policies have deterred consumption, increased black market activities, and driv...

BigTobacco + (sloppy) economists = Nonsense economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/et-c...

ITC smuggles own cigs to scare finance Min then complains! Low cig excises in India means GoI loses Rs to BigTobacco

See correct policy: www.epw.in/journal/2011...
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USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust. February 24, 2025. An in-depth and up-to-date deep-dive on where things really stand in the Trump administration's assault on USAID, which has long been one of the United States' greatest assets.

Worth watching.

USAID update, with Dr. Atul Gawande and Dr. Jeremy Faust. open.substack.com/pub/insideme... @agawande.bsky.social @gavinyamey.bsky.social

"However, is there a bridge too far, a point where it is no longer appropriate for medicine and public health to accede? Under what conditions must the profession stand its ground and vocally oppose problematic policies or disinformation?"

Sometimes we get a piece into @plosglobalpublichealth.org that is so, so urgent. From my personal vantage point in North Texas, this Opinion by the incomparable Peter Hotez is one of them. Please do check it out and share widely.

Epidemiology and global health... please add me.

How Michelle Obama quietly changed what Americans eat I was skeptical of the First Lady’s work on childhood obesity — until I looked at her track record.

It’s fascinating—& painful—to look back at Michelle Obama’s impressive record in improving America’s diet, especially for kids

The GOP did all it could to torpedo it—that party has a long record of opposing progressive public health measures (they cry “nanny state!”)

www.vox.com/2016/10/3/12...

How did COVID hybrid immunity build in Canada, India, China, and Sierra Leone? Lessons for early vax + need to understand African paradoxes.
tiny.cc/2ph3001
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Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health In his decades as a former president, he and his wife, Rosalynn Carter, helped bring lifesaving treatments and sanitation to poor people around the world.

Jimmy Carter’s Quiet but Monumental Work in Global Health www.nytimes.com/2024/12/30/h...

How Jimmy Carter's global health efforts elevated 'the art of the possible' Former President Jimmy Carter, who died Sunday at age 100, gave visibility to devastating health problems that are often invisible.

How Jimmy Carter’s global health efforts elevated ‘the art of the possible’ www.statnews.com/2024/12/29/h... via @statnews.com #episky #medsky #science

1. Vertical (mother to child) transmission of HIV in the US is close to being eliminated—one of the greatest public health successes in modern times

2. RFK Jr is an AIDS denialist, & I fear that putting an AIDS denialist in charge of the nation’s health could be a huge setback to progress

Manmohan Singh, Indian Prime Minister, Dies at 92 The country’s first Sikh prime minister, he introduced free-market reforms that turned India into an economic powerhouse and sought reconciliation with Pakistan.

It was a privilege to work with Dr. Manmohan Singh on global commissions and to support India's National Health Mission. I showed him MDS data that NHM conservatively averted 1M child deaths, but further action could save even more. My thoughts are with his family.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/w...

There was a Leverage episode about this, over a decade ago. It is not new, and you'd best not look too deeply into health economics if you don't like it, because it gets worse.