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Lisa Hansen

@teachepi

Field epidemiologist and recovering anthropologist. Interested in science policy, public health capacity and πŸ“š

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Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Ensures that all the diseases covered by the previous immunization schedule will still be available to anyone who wants them through Affordable Care Act insurance plans and federal insurance programs, including Medicaid, the Children’s Health Insurance Program, and the Vaccines for Children program. Families will not have to purchase them out of pocket. Among peer nations, the U.S. will continue to offer the most childhood vaccines for free to those who want them.

Copy Editing Matters, from HHS's release on the new childhood vaccine schedule: All the diseases will still be available to anyone who wants them

06.01.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 2532 πŸ” 827 πŸ’¬ 88 πŸ“Œ 125
Beyond research and policy engagement: Rebuilding public trust in global health - Centre for Global Sustainability How can global health scholars address waning trust in global health? Collective member Kelley Lee offers her reflections

The latest from BRC Co-Scientific Director Dr. Kelley Lee, on what researchers and scholars can do to rebuild #PublicTrust in #GlobalHealth:

πŸ“ www.globe.uio.no/english/rese...

09.12.2025 18:18 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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What role will #mRNA technology play in the future of Canadian #HealthCare? Join us for a documentary screening and dialogue with mRNA pioneers and leading experts in #PublicHealth, medical anthropology, clinical practice and regulatory affairs. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rna-health...

23.10.2025 18:58 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ESCAIDE 2025 - A summary of day 1 The opening day of ESCAIDE featured sessions on public health governance, artificial intelligence, global epidemic intelligence, and science-based leadership.

ESCAIDE 2025 - A summary of day 1 www.escaide.eu/en/news-even...

20.11.2025 16:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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When science is understandable, we all win. I've started a national petition calling on all institutions of higher education, and their accreditors, to require science communication and public engagement training for all STEM degrees. Share and sign today, it only takes a few seconds: bit.ly/3LbnfHB

08.11.2025 17:31 πŸ‘ 216 πŸ” 73 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 11

Join @healthjournalism.org for a webinar with @drdemetre.bsky.social, @drdebhoury.bsky.social and Daniel Jernigan next Wednesday and find out what went down at the #CDC, what will happen next, and what needs to happen to preserve the integrity of public health infrastructure in the U.S.

11.11.2025 23:32 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.

James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers www.statnews.com/2025/11/07/j... via @statnews.com

10.11.2025 23:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication www.statnews.com/2025/10/21/c... via @statnews.com

22.10.2025 04:27 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

'You know it's artificially induced" --families destroyed over this, it's so so terrible. "No mercury in the vaccines, no aluminum in the vaccines, the MMR should be taken separately" based on what Trump feels. Good lord we're back to Wakefield.

22.09.2025 20:54 πŸ‘ 76 πŸ” 10 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2
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Some foreign regimes exploit major events to distort online content and push manipulated information. By hiding their role, their lies look real and spread fast.

See how Canada exposes these tactics: ow.ly/4eQV50WYa8e

#ThinkBeforeYouShare

17.09.2025 14:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Optimal pandemic control strategies and cost-effectiveness of COVID-19 non-pharmaceutical interventions in the United States - BMC Global and Public Health Background Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) in response to the COVID-19 pandemic necessitated a trade-off between the health impacts of viral spread and the social and economic costs of restric...

1/ Contrary to recent claims by two political scientists, new work by @adrianraftery.bsky.social & Nick Irons estimates that COVID non-pharmacuetical interventions (NPIs) saved an estimated 860,000 lives in the US *in 2020 alone*.

bmcglobalpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

13.09.2025 21:32 πŸ‘ 65 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
Above: Text Roundtable. Global Lessons in Open Science: From Biomedical Research to Particle Physics. Mid: Two Portraits. Caption: MIchaela Mayrhofer. Ethics Expert at Medical University of Innsbruck. Alexander Kohls. Head of the CERN Scientific Information Service.

Above: Text Roundtable. Global Lessons in Open Science: From Biomedical Research to Particle Physics. Mid: Two Portraits. Caption: MIchaela Mayrhofer. Ethics Expert at Medical University of Innsbruck. Alexander Kohls. Head of the CERN Scientific Information Service.

🌍 #openscience in action! Join Michaela Th. Mayrhofer @i-med.ac.at and Alexander Kohls @cern.bsky.social for a roundtable on transformative #openscience across disciplines. Learn how FAIR principles and collaborative culture are driving transparency, innovation, and global impact. #osfestival2025

06.09.2025 22:34 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Above: Text. Expert Roundtable. Openness in Dialogue: Science, Citizens, Communication. MId: Four portraits. Captions.

Above: Text. Expert Roundtable. Openness in Dialogue: Science, Citizens, Communication. MId: Four portraits. Captions.

πŸ•ΊπŸ’ƒ It takes three to tango: #OpenScience, #CitizenScience & #SciComm. Katharina Rieck moderates this roundtable with Daniel DΓΆrler, Katja Mayer, and Franz Kerschbaum - exploring overlaps, differences & shared challenges between openness, participation & communication. #CitizenScience #osfestival2025

07.09.2025 19:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Op-ed: How to repair broken trust in public health | Public Health Newswire

publichealthnewswire.org?p=repairing-...

07.09.2025 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Publish or Perish: A Humorous Party Game about Academic Publish Welcome to the chaotic life of academic publishing. In this game, you are a clueless researcher trying to do the one and only thing that matters in your academic life: churning out publications, fast....

WANT

publishorperish.games

07.09.2025 09:33 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Kennedy, Rejecting Data, Fuels Distrust of His Own Agencies

This is an understatement: β€œMr. Kennedy’s defiant performance at the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday, his critics say, put on vivid display what happens when someone with no medical or scientific training and a conspiracy-minded approach takes charge of the nation’s public health”

07.09.2025 19:13 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Health Equity Benefits All Communities (Including White Ones)

Came across a brilliant article about the problems with how health equity has often been conceptualized (that white communities don't realize that they benefit from attempts to improve health equity).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

06.08.2025 21:55 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites - Canada News Beep Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week β€”Β including at a grocer,Β retail outlet, government

Officials warn of possible measles exposure at 4 Winnipeg sites

https://www.newsbeep.com/ca/30868/

Public health officials are warning of a possible measles exposure at four sites in Winnipeg last week β€”Β including…

29.07.2025 03:40 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Opinion | Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine

Doctors Have Lost Their Mount Olympus of Medicine www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/o...

29.07.2025 05:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A text box reads: β€œHepatitis D is now classified as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B and C.” Below, a note says: β€œIt causes liver cancer and can only spread in people already infected with hepatitis B.”

A text box reads: β€œHepatitis D is now classified as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B and C.” Below, a note says: β€œIt causes liver cancer and can only spread in people already infected with hepatitis B.”

#Hepatitis update you should know:

The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has now classified hepatitis D as carcinogenic to humans, just like hepatitis B & C.

⚠️ It causes liver cancer & only spreads in people already infected with hepatitis B.

Learn more πŸ‘‰ bit.ly/4mjGQCY

28.07.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 96 πŸ” 56 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 7
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America’s retreat from science has far-reaching implications for global research and innovation The immediate impact on US science and global health is devastating, but the implications for global science go further and we need to protect it.

New post by me on the implications for global science from America's scientific retreat and what we need to do about it.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/americas-r...

this is adapted from an editorial I wrote for the Journal of Health Services Research & Policy journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

14.07.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 147 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 4
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The important characterisation of the UK pop'n from More In Common highlights v low levels of trust in most former 'authoritative' professions.

Scientists are the exception.

Trust both fragile & valuable. We scientists must continue to *earn* it. Science communication is more important than ever.

16.07.2025 08:41 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 1

Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you listen to music harder

15.07.2025 13:19 πŸ‘ 252 πŸ” 29 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4
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We’re Hiring a Senior Science Editor - Talk Science To Me Talk Science to Me Communications Inc. is seeking a senior editor. Talk Science to Me is a publications support firm offering writing, editing, design and consulting services, and the parent company o...

I'm hiring! Talk Science to Me Communications is looking for a senior science editor.

Part time, remote, contract, CA$50–75/hr. 10+ years experience (5+ in science editing), knowledge of Canadian English required.

#science #scicomm πŸ§ͺ

www.talksciencetome.com/2025/07/07/w...

08.07.2025 21:52 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Scientists, let's share our work with the public, so they can know how our work benefits their everyday health and wealth. Share your research & story in a LOCAL HOMETOWN PAPER op-ed, published June 16! #McClintockLetters #SciComm #DefendResearch

Sign up & learn more: tinyurl.com/McClintockLetters

29.05.2025 02:26 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2
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New Brunswick has no mystery neurological disease, scientific study concludes | CBC News A new scientific study has found no evidence of a mystery brain disease in New Brunswick,Β says a report published WednesdayΒ inΒ the Journal of the AmericanΒ Medical Association, known as JAMA.

An important follow up to the previously reported "undiagnosed" New Brunswick neurological disease. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

07.05.2025 18:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ“£ Federally funded scientists!

Now more than ever before, it is critical that we bridge the gap btw scientists & the community to rebuild trust & address misinformation. Join the national #McClintockLetters movement to #DefendResearch, improve #SciComm, & share your scientific story! ‡️

05.05.2025 16:51 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3
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Hey #SciComm and #MedComm folks, how do you communicate uncertainty?

Uncertainty is a tricky topic. I mean, heck, when discussing uncertainty in a general sense, you're defining a word that describes how things are hard to fully define.

That's pretty meta, if you ask me!

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02.05.2025 17:42 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research Hundreds of grants axed in a field where the United States was a global leader

Trump’s team, often accused of spreading misinformation, slashes misinformation research | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

02.05.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Why criticizing "anti-vaxxers" often backfires This is post 3 of 4 looking back at the public health communication around the COVID vaccines and why trust in vaccines was damaged.Β Catch up on the first two posts:Β misinformation versus miscommunica...

This is my favorite (and I feel, most important) article I have ever written.

www.youcanknowthings.com/shame-doesnt...

28.04.2025 14:54 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 3