Daniel Goldstein

Ten Articles Explaining the 2024 Election Some background reading

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Remembering the Nakba while witnessing a genocide As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered to mark the 1948 catastrophe and to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.

'In Israel, authorities suppressed any acknowledgment of the Palestinian catastrophe since the earliest days of the state — banning the term in schools, passing laws to defund institutions that commemorate it, and erasing historical records from state archives.'

Nobody likes Rogan or wants any other form of Rogan, Democratic mega-donors.

What we need is real newspapers run by responsible, intelligent journalists, not pitch decks, not spreadsheets, no hedgies or billionaires sticking their oar in, nobody obsessed with 10 percent growth year over year

Opinion | The World’s Richest Men Take On the World’s Poorest Children I’ve seen U.S.A.I.D. operate around the world, and it’s not woke — it’s lifesaving.

The world's richest man is taking food and medicine from the world's poorest children
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The Times identified more than 30 frozen studies that had volunteers already in the care of researchers, including trials of: malaria treatment in children under age 5 in Mozambique treatment for cholera in Bangladesh a screen-and-treat method for cervical cancer in Malawi tuberculosis treatment for children and teenagers in Peru and South Africa nutritional support for children in Ethiopia early-childhood-development interventions in Cambodia ways to support pregnant and breastfeeding women to reduce malnutrition in Jordan an mRNA vaccine technology for H.I.V. in South Africa

Trials abandoned due to the stop-work order on USAID-funded research:

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Louisiana forbids public health workers from promoting COVID, flu and mpox shots An NPR investigation found Louisiana health officials told staff to stop promoting vaccines for COVID, flu and mpox, holding flu shot events or otherwise encouraging the public to get those vaccines.

This is outrageous: “Staffers were also told that it applies to every aspect of the health department's work: Employees could not send out press releases, give interviews, hold vaccine events, give presentations or create social media posts encouraging the public to get the vaccines.”

Two wonderful global health scholars have made their global health books free to download

Bravo and thanks @seyeabimbola.bsky.social and
@thewrittenro.bsky.social

The Foreign Gaze:
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Rethinking Global Health:
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“I think all of us should have […] much better training in ethics.” Ethical challenges in policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from an interview study with Swiss policy makers and scien... Background The COVID-19 pandemic posed many unprecedented challenges to health care systems and public health efforts worldwide. Policy making and science were deeply intertwined, in particular with r...

“I think all of us should have […] much better training in ethics.” Ethical challenges in policy making during the COVID-19 pandemic: Results from an interview study with Swiss policy makers and scientists

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It’s not hard to not be a total dick to trans people, I’m literally doing it right now, sitting on my couch, not doing it.

Too many in media and an entire Republican Party, and a number of overpaid Dem consultants, flunk this remarkably easy test, it’s like most people failing to blink

Telling my students these days that it’s important to be precise about what counts as health equity work. If an intervention doesn’t get to the roots of the inequity, then we should call it “addressing the effects of inequity.”

I’d like to be included.

Ideas of justice are necessary for a developing the species, but out of the question when it’s about survival. Other times I think that talking about justice is necessary when survival is the issue. 2/2

You know how a fruit tree will flower 🌺 or when a saguaro grows an arm? 🌵That’s what I sometimes think academic discussions about justice are.1/2