Matthew Kavanagh

Working now, with some colleagues around the world on global manufacturing at the local and regional level, and from where I sit, long acting technologies would be a powerful element of the broader strategy that needs to be regionalized.

No, this is super helpful, thank you. I’m particularly intrigued by several of the points you make about TB, and some of the other examples.
And actually exactly as you’re saying, we would need to develop a sector wide strategy for it, which I think is really possible…

Since you’re here, I have one: are there credible other ID uses for the long-acting technologies being pioneered in HIV? Seems like there should be and I’m trying to make the case for production. it’d be super interesting if they might be useful for neglected diseases or pandemic-potential diseases

Does not look like a recipe for rebuilding WHO power… 🤔

Ah! Thnx. Interesting

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

Curious, what’s the take away from the paper behind the paywall?

Tune to and watch our Director @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social deliver a workshop on the political economy of inequality and pandemics tomorrow at 4pm ET.

The link is sign-up is: spr.ly/6041hqwuF.

Thank you to the @buceid.bsky.social for arranging this important event.

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Tomorrow, join us & our colleagues at the Pardee Center for their next Global Health Politics Workshop, "A Political Economy of Inequality & Pandemics," featuring @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social from Georgetown University.
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Dear politician texting me to ask for money, you are not a movement. Electing you is not a movement. Movements are "an expression of collective power" "engaged in political or cultural conflicts, on the basis of shared collective identities..."
Sorry you got me on a political science-y day.

When I say the weather is rough in DC tonight I mean it’s just me and the ducks out here…

Current events confirm the achieved wisdom of time-honored classics in the social sciences.

Thank you all the 300+ folks who turned up today and for heading to the hill tomorrow. And @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social for coming to DC and your inspiring words.
TB does not have to kill a Houston,TX size population every year.

We are so glad to get to welcome @tbfighters.org @pih.org @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social to Georgetown. Hundreds of grassroots people from across the US to engage policymakers on Tuberculosis.
@ghpp.georgetown.edu

Lenacapavir for PrEP was the big "star" of #CROI2026 after showing almost 100% effectiveness in preventing HIV in 2 large RCTs.
Unfortunately at a pricing point of 28000$ a year it remains inaccessible to most. A drug is only as great as the number of people who can access and benefit from it.

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We're looking forward to supporting our colleagues at the Pardee Center for their next Global Health Politics Workshop, "A Political Economy of Inequality & Pandemics," on March 5th featuring @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social from Georgetown University.
Join on campus or Zoom:
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Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes.

If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

I might have caught the infection. But c’mon it’s utterly necessary to connect ideas that are really one sentence. What you want a semicolon??

I love a good em-dash and dont really care that this makes me seem like a bot.

NIAID staffers ordered to remove biodefense, pandemic preparedness language on website Experts say the move will hobble the United States’ ability to respond to future infectious disease threats.

I realize this is not news because of the structure of news right now, but still...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/bioterrorism...

Excited to announce publication of new JHPPL special issue: Public Health Under Siege (ungated) that explores the fate of public health during the second Trump administration:

read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/issue/...

Some of you commenting on the Supreme Court tariffs case have clearly never read social science about courts. A ruling like this this is less sign of independence than a legitimacy-building exercise for President and Court, costs little, protects ruling coalition. See e.g. Hungary, Chile, Uganda.

This was always about having someone to blame politically. It’s pure domestic politics

We aren't predicting the death of WHO, but we are warning that it is possible, even foreseeable, and urging those of us in public health take the steps that history suggests would be needed to prevent it.

Our concern is that it may be the latter--that the norms that WHO has relied on to help it navigate major shifts in geopolitics in the past decades are quickly evaporating in both the US and world. Which leaves WHO unmoored in a dangerous way...

Or is US withdrawal a sign of the decline of WHO as an international organization, with the Pandemic Agreement adoption a pyrrhic victory symbolizing disinterest and the decreasing importance of multilateralism in health?

...How should we understand the deeply conflicting situation for the WHO facing US withdrawl + passage of pandemic treaty? Is the US move an anomaly, one largely attributable to the unique politics of Donald Trump that can perhaps be ignored until “normal” is restored?

Public Health Under Siege. So pleased to have our piece on @who.int in this powerful new special issue, coordinated by the brilliant @sarahgollust.bsky.social @oberlanderunc.bsky.social. We draw on IR research on "IO Death" to suggest WHO faces a major threat that its not taking seriously enough...

Inequality Will Make the Next Pandemic Worse Joseph E. Stiglitz, Monica Geingos and Michael Marmot explain why preparations for the next global health crisis must address socioeconomic disparities.

"We have the means to detect outbreaks immediately, sequence pathogens in days, develop new vaccines in months. Yet pandemics are coming faster, threatening more lives and livelihoods...
@josephestiglitz.bsky.social
@michaelmarmot.bsky.social
Monica Geingos
www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/i...

...what it might do, another clear Trump goal, is undermine WHO. Whether it does will depend on how other states react. Will they go along? Will others get on the bandwagon? Will they hide and pretend it goes away? Or will the world act to reinforce @who.int?