Know an IDSA member making a difference locally and around the world? 🌎Nominate them for a 2026 IDSA & HIVMA Society Award!
Help celebrate the colleagues whose work advances infectious diseases research, care, education, and advocacy. Submit your nomination now through April 7: bit.ly/45zhH0Z
IDSA President Ronald Nahass, MD, MHCM, FIDSA, President-Elect Wendy Armstrong, MD, FIDSA and Misha Huang, MD met with @degette.house.gov.
Thank you, Rep. DeGette, for meeting with us to discuss the ID workforce and support for public health, ID research and outbreak preparedness!
Thank you to the office of Rep. John Larson for discussing solutions for strengthening the ID workforce. 💪
@uconn.bsky.social ID director Lisa Chirch, MD, FIDSA, met with the office of @chrismurphyct.bsky.social. Thank you for listening to these important issues!
Thank you to the office of @peters.senate.gov for hearing why strong public health funding, more ID physicians, and research support matter for patients and communities. 💗
Nearly 80% of U.S. counties lack an ID physician. Thank you to the office of Sen. Susan Collins for meeting with us to discuss the value of ID care.
IDSA members Drs. Anu Malani, Steve Carpenter, and Nora Colburn met with the office of @debbiedingell.house.gov. Thank you for taking the time to hear how we can strengthen the ID workforce, fight AMR, and protect public health!
Thank you to the office of @pingree.house.gov for meeting with our members @kinnathakarar.bsky.social and Lisa Chirch, MD, FIDSA, and IDSA associate director of advocacy Rabita Aziz, to discuss how we can keep patients and communities safe! 💗
It's Hill Day! Our members were on Capitol Hill today to meet with their congressional representatives about protecting NIH and CDC funding, fighting AMR and growing the ID workforce so patients and communities across the U.S. have access to care.
Missed last month's IDSA Fellows Case Conference? A recording is now available on the IDSA Academy!
Explore a complex ID case, hear expert insights, and learn alongside your peers: bit.ly/46CfSkC
RSV is a leading cause of acute respiratory illness in older adults and those with comorbidities. In CID, authors describe the burden of RSV-associated hospitalizations among adults ≥50 years of age and adults of any age with CHF and COPD exacerbations. https://bit.ly/476QR0W
“To tell people that they don’t need to be vaccinated is simply promoting disease," says Stanley Plotkin, MD, FIDSA.
Honored w/ @idweek.bsky.social's Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology, he warns that preventable diseases could be returning. bit.ly/4l86on4
On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks blog: Read JID’s latest roundup of papers relevant to clinicians, including articles on on-demand dosing for HIV prevention in women, corticosteroid therapy for cryptococcal meningitis and more. https://bit.ly/4skFRp1
IDSA has established a Journals Reader Panel where readers of cidjournal.bsky.social, ofidjournal.bsky.social and jidjournal.bsky.social can give direct feedback to our editors.
Apply to join by March 31 to engage directly with editors, learn about new journal initiatives and more: bit.ly/406h4ZG
New #LetsTalkID! @paulsaxmd.bsky.social talks w/ @pjpass.bsky.social, a med-peds ID physician at @dartmouthhealth.bsky.social & ID editor of @themednet.bsky.social, about finding trusted expert guidance beyond AI & how clinician communities help shape real-world practice.
Transcript: bit.ly/3NcrZhx
DYK? IDSA's Leadership Institute has TWO pathways: Rising Leaders for early-career ID professionals (online) and Community of Leaders for mid/senior-career pros (hybrid).
Both programs run once a year.
Get notified when applications open: https://bit.ly/4tNRR3O
🚨LAST CALL! The second installment of the ID Clinical Bootcamp for APPs, with new content from #IDWeek2025, is available as an accredited course on the IDSA Academy!
Register by TOMORROW, Feb. 28, with the code APPBOOTCAMP to claim a 10% discount: https://bit.ly/3Nh09jR
In a new @nytimes.com op-ed, immunologist Elisabeth Marnik, PhD, reflects on growing up unvaccinated and explains why empathy, not shame, is key to addressing vaccine hesitancy. bit.ly/3MBIbc5
On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks blog: Gabriela Zambrano-Sanchez, MD, and Luis Del Carpio-Orantes, MD, explore how the COVID-19 pandemic offers lessons for developing and sustaining vaccine and health sovereignty in Latin America. https://bit.ly/3MFzyx7
IDSA is proud to announce this year’s Health Equity Champions, an initiative that celebrates Society members who are contributing bold solutions to help reduce health disparities and advance health equity.
Learn more: https://bit.ly/3ZVIHom
Me, an ID doctor, listening to someone who doesn't understand the value that infectious diseases professionals bring to health care:
In CID, authors present a fatal case of native aortic valve endocarditis due to Burkholderia pseudomallei complicated by embolic stroke and subdural empyema that occurred in a traveler who returned from Thailand to the United States. https://bit.ly/4qHGM1p
NEW #IDSAGuidelines! IDSA has updated our guidelines on community-acquired pneumonia in pediatrics: https://www.idsociety.org/practice-guideline/community-acquired-pneumonia-in-infants-and-children/
On IDSA’s/HIVMA’s Science Speaks: A study in CID examined associations between antibiotic use & outcomes in patients hospitalized with community-acquired pneumonia and positive respiratory viral assays. Read IDSA’s Journal Club review by Christopher J. Graber, MD, MPH, FIDSA. https://bit.ly/46mQEq6
🚫Myth: Measles is mild.
✅Fact: Measles can be life-threatening.
As measles outbreaks continue across parts of the U.S., IDSA has updated our fact sheet on the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine: https://bit.ly/4rude8U
On IDSA’s & HIVMA’s Science Speaks: Timothy Sullivan, MD, FIDSA, IDSA Coding & Payment Subcommittee chair, explores how understanding nationwide billing practices may help improve ID compensation by empowering physicians to select more appropriate levels of service. www.idsociety.org/science-spea...
The IDSA Foundation strengthens the infectious diseases workforce, advances research, and promotes equity in the fight against global ID threats.
Learn more: https://www.idsafoundation.org/
Does your colleague have Olympic-level impact? Nominate them for the gold. 🥇 The IDSA Society Awards celebrate the accomplishments of IDSA members that can be seen locally and around the globe.
Learn more and submit your nomination now through April 7: https://bit.ly/45zhH0Z
Increasing flu vaccination rates among adults could save thousands of lives and billions of dollars in a single flu season.
A study from the Global Healthy Living Foundation explores the impact the flu had on the U.S. in 2023-24 and how vaccination rates factored into it: https://bit.ly/3OoX9CC
Biannual mass azithromycin distribution to children aged 1-59 months reduces all-cause child mortality but selects for AMR. In CID, authors evaluated the impact of twice-yearly distribution of azithromycin compared to placebo on AMR in the gut of children in Burkina Faso. https://bit.ly/4rAQP9u
