@pphcollective.bsky.social
Public health research that is people centered, place oriented & data driven. We study drugs, infectious diseases + intersecting epidemics. Based at the Brown University School of Public Health.
Doctoral student Alexandra Skinner wrote about how the Twin Cities needs a response that provides people with economic supports in dealing with the city's ICE presence, much like was done during COVID-19.
www.startribune.com/mn-ice-drawd...
The Trump administration is slashing nearly $2 billion in existing grants for mental health, addiction treatment, HIV/hep C prevention, and more, the latest in a yearlong degradation of SAMHSA
like Hot Fudge Sundae mourned their fallen compatriot Cherry at the Pop Tarts Bowl, we too shall continue to participate in the NIH grant process in honor of all those grants that were unjustly terminated
rumors of public healths demise in 2025 are greatly exaggerated (ok not really) but we are still out here despite it all and ready for 2026. LETS GOOOOOOOOO
“I have lived in Providence for nearly a decade—first as a Brown student, and then when I returned to make it my home—and I have never seen it like this, the energy sucked out of it by fear.”
Read this moving piece by @h-lev.bsky.social on the shooting aftermath www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Remembering Brown Freshman MukhammadAziz Umurzokov.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/u...
We are horrified and grieving for our beloved campus community. To our Brown & Providence community, please stay safe. Our hearts go out to those impacted by tonights senseless tragedy.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is seeking input on Federal policy updates to accelerate the American scientific enterprise.
This is your chance to give some feedback on how the past ~10 months have gone for science.
www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
I plan to highlight:
"To really stem this crisis and improve public health, the country must pursue an aggressive campaign of economic justice."
—Professor Brandon Marshall and @ashihipar.bsky.social of the @pphcollective.bsky.social writing in the @newrepublic.com
Happening now! RSVP to get a zoom link.
Tomorrow at 11:30 AM EST, join @aniloza.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social as they discuss what it's been like to cover HHS under this administration. Register to get the zoom link.
events.brown.edu/public-healt...
Tomorrow at 11:30 AM EST, join @aniloza.bsky.social and @maxkozlov.bsky.social as they discuss what it's been like to cover HHS under this administration. Register to get the zoom link.
events.brown.edu/public-healt...
Collective members Professor Brandon Marshall and Abdullah Shihipar write about viewing the overdose crisis as one driven by material suffering and explain that pursuing economic justice can have a real impact in reducing overdose deaths.
newrepublic.com/article/2031...
Thank you all the program officers at NIH that persisted through the 2025 fiscal year and were able to fund 99% of the total FY2024 budget. I know this has take a toll on everyone at NIH. Thank you for supporting important health and behavior science and helping to keep the U.S. a leader in science.
Collective member Abdullah Shihipar spoke to Governing about the drop in overdose deaths and why funding cuts could interrupt that progress.
www.governing.com/magazine/the...
Earlier this month, Professor Brandon Marshall spoke to the Hartford Courant about overdose prevention centers.
“They are highly effective in other countries in communities where there is a very high level of overdose risk,” he said.
www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
Doctoral candidate Leah Shaw and co-authors wrote a blog post a few weeks ago to accompany their study on Rhode Island's Harm Reduction vending machines. They found that these were used significantly on the weekends (30%) and outside regular business hours (50%).
jphmpdirect.com/what-we-have...
Hey there. Today was terrible. I’m grieving for all who will get hurt, sick and die from what the #GOP has done. But I remember dark days in the past during the AIDS epidemic in the US in the 80s, in South Africa in the 2000s. Things looked bleak then. Though me and my friends would be dead. 1/
Our information based resource on overdose prevention centers - opcinfo.org - is now available in Chinese and Spanish. With the exception of legislative updates & the literature database, the website and its materials are available in these languages. Use the menu to switch between languages.
We have created a set of slides that explains how NIH works aka how biomedical science is funded in the United States. Enter our game where you "play" as a budding young scientist who is looking to get a grant studying opioid use disorder funded -- will he get it funded? Click through!
Tomorrow (Tues, June 10) at 10AM ET, NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will be testifying before the Senate Appropriations Committee on the NIH budget. 1/
“Ian Morgan, a postdoctoral fellow with the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, also signed… “We have a saying in basic science,” he said. “You go and become a physician if you want to treat thousands of patients. You go and become a researcher if you want to save billions of patients.”
"Boy, has it been a learning curve, because not a lot of people navigate a termination at all in their careers, let alone for their first grant." — BSHS PhD student Patrick Kelly discusses his grant cancellation, its impact on his work, and on the populations he serves defector.com/an-interview...
We have created a set of slides that explains how NIH works aka how biomedical science is funded in the United States. Enter our game where you "play" as a budding young scientist who is looking to get a grant studying opioid use disorder funded -- will he get it funded? Click through!
The prevention & response investment that helped lower overdose deaths last year is at risk Abdullah Shihipar MPH'20 warns: "As Congress debates the proposed federal budget, it’s important that we don’t take recent progress for granted." @psychologytoday.com www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/figh...
