@brookeenichols.bsky.social
Associate Prof, modeler, health economist, co-creator of impactcounter.com
Conservatieve inschatting is dat inmiddels half miljoen mensen zijn gestorven door abrupte stopzetting van USAID financiering voor HIV-AIDS projecten. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
01.09.2025 04:38 — 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Een tool berekende dat met het stoppen van USAid bijna 150.000 volwassenen en ruim 300.000 kinderen stierven. Dat zijn 88 sterfgevallen per uur. Elke 3,18 minuten sterft er een extra kind aan longontsteking, iedere 4,15 minuten een aan diarree. Dit zijn dan nota bene nog voorzichtige berekeningen.
31.08.2025 16:31 — 👍 38 🔁 27 💬 4 📌 3
Voedsel, medicijnen, voorbehoedsmiddelen: de rigoreuze en onmiddellijke stopzetting van USAID betekent 88 extra doden per uur (!). @brookeenichols.bsky.social maakte een impactmeter die de doden telt. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
En hier een interview:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
05.06.2025 20:15 — 👍 35511 🔁 8196 💬 620 📌 257
More Than 300,000 'Preventable' Deaths Since Musk, Trump, DOGE Shutdown of USAID: Today's #BradCast
Guest: Dr. @brookeenichols.bsky.social, Assoc. Prof of Global Health at Boston U; Also: Admin attacks CBO as budget bill found to add trillions to deficit...
FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15406
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count.
Many thanks to my BU colleague
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science.
103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day
#ForeignAid cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year.
Thanks @brookeenichols.bsky.social for your role in measuring/documenting the impact of this cruelty! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
The best metric of Elon's time in Washington. @impactcounter.bsky.social
30.05.2025 11:24 — 👍 19 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
And meanwhile, “The Last of Us” is about to become a reality TV series.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
On his @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social spoke with fellow CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social about the human toll of US foreign aid cuts, as calculated by her @impactcounter.bsky.social.
http://spr.ly/633262xO74
Reflecting on changes over Trump's first 100 days in office, @freep.com cites stats from CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social, estimating the toll of cuts to PEPFAR.
http://spr.ly/633262v6Us
103 people die every hour thanks to US funding cuts, according to @brookeenichols.bsky.social. We can criticise aid, but it does save lives.
30.04.2025 14:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Graphic showing the silhouette of a small child, with parts of her soul disappearing (as butterflies flying away). She’s walking toward, but not reaching the USAID logo. The headline says: Every minute, one child dies because of USAID cuts There is a USAID logo in red and blue. At the bottom is a QR code and the text: impactcounter.com/ dashboard Data from the Boston University School of Public Health
This weekend, I worked on my protest signs for #MayDay and ended up doing a meme version of this one. The stats are horrifying and heartbreaking.
Amazing work by Dr. Brooke Nichols that should be more publicized. @brookeenichols.bsky.social
Thursday, May 1, 4-7PM
300 N Salisbury St
Raleigh, NC
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
More than 180,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
@brookeenichols.bsky.social (no relation) has assembled an extraordinary dashboard showing the human impact of the destruction of USAid.
Of anything I have posted, I beg that you take a moment to look at it.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
On BU Giving Day, this Wednesday, please consider making a gift of any amount to CEID. Your support helps fund our work such as @impactcounter.bsky.social developed by @brookeenichols.bsky.social to quantify lives lost due to cuts to PEPFAR.
Donate directly to CEID at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
More than 150,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
A screen capture of the article linked above stating that “there will be an additional death from TB every seven minutes“.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut? www.bu.edu/articles/202...
28.03.2025 12:41 — 👍 1726 🔁 759 💬 78 📌 57People are really better than natural disasters at killing other people.
28.03.2025 15:19 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
CEID faculty Dr. Brooke Nichols (@busph.bsky.social) developed @impactcounter.bsky.social to serve as a tool to quantify, both for government officials and general public, the toll that cuts to foreign aid will have on real lives.
www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
Her calculations estimate that hundreds of thousands of lives will be lost to infectious diseases like malaria, TB, & HIV due to cuts to USAID, PEPFAR, & Medicaid. View real-time updates at her @impactcounter.bsky.social
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV #FundingCutsCostLives
