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Today in faculty meeting we talked about compostable forks.

In the CHAT trial, azithromycin or placebo was given to 32,877 infants (5 to 12 weeks of age). No evidence of benefit with respect to mortality before 6 months of age was seen with azithromycin. Read the full trial results: nej.md/3U4jndT

New work from our group out today! CRSN Nouna (Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna) F.I. Proctor Foundation UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics

This new article by Järvinnen & Mik-Meyer on "gendered service work in academia" made me go through all stages of grief on a loop and I think EVERYONE in academic should read it 👇journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

The UCSF DREAM Lab is looking for undergraduate and graduate students for summer and year-long internships starting in June 2024. Learn more at dreamlab.ucsf.edu/dream-lab-inte…

2024 Annual Meeting dates have been shifted to November 13-17. Taylor Swift concerts were scheduled the weekend of our original dates, bringing up to 250K fans to NOLA. Shifting dates will help our attendees access #TropMed24 as affordably as possible. tinyurl.com/5b36ut2s

Really excited to see this out today. This study was an incredible collaboration with CRSN Nouna (Centre de Recherche en Santé de Nouna). These results, coupled with recent negative findings from individual RCTs, strongly suggest a mass drug administration approach to observe a benefit from azithro for mortality.

📣It's here! Just published in Nature Medicine: Among of over 6,000 patients of telehealth abortion was as safe and effective as found in previous studies of in-person medication abortion care. Full paper linked below and a longer tweet thread to follow soon. 👇🏽

#postdoc opening. Join us at the malaria research program University of Maryland School of Medicine to help with our new projects on #malaria epidemiology and #climate health. Contact me ASAP if interested. Please RT and share widely!

As students are receiving acceptance, waitlist, “rejection” letters for PhD programs, I’ve gotten a lot of questions about “why,” and there are a LOT of background gears at play students don’t always know about. I’ll share some and invite #AcademicChatter to add to this:

We’re hiring! Come join us on projects to generate evidence for treatment of acute malnutrition and trachoma. sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search…

Assessment of spillover of antimicrobial resistance to untreated children 7 to 12 years old after mass drug administration of azithromycin for child survival in Niger: a secondary analysis of the MORDOR cluster-randomized trial ✅ Just Accepted bit.ly/3UX80EK

Remembering the time someone addressed a question to the “fresh young ladies” (me and a colleague) after we gave a talk at a conference. Don’t be that guy.

Very bummed to be missing #SER2024 but I tested positive for COVID late last week and I would be a very bad epidemiologist if I went so I will have FOMO instead 😭

Abortion bans linked with higher infant death rates. Public health researchers warned SCOTUS of this, based on several prior studies finding that unwanted pregnancies more often result in problems for babies. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…

“I care deeply that the American people have an entire picture of what is at stake in this election. And where we are right now, after that debate, is not giving us that picture,” says historian Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR). “It is my expectation, following the Supreme Court’s recent

In the PURPOSE 1 randomized, controlled trial involving women in South Africa & Uganda, twice-yearly subcutaneous lenacapavir was superior to daily oral emtricitabine–tenofovir disoproxil fumarate in preventing HIV infection. Full trial results: nej.md/3zRElVj #AIDS2024

Congrats to our four PhD students who won competitive Graduate Division Fellowships! Mia Navarro, MS; Leah Koenig, MSPH; Cozie Gwaikolo, MD, MAS; and Caitlin Turner, MPH.

Regular reminder to be kind and constructive in your peer reviews. You don’t get extra points for being a jerk. You can disagree with someone respectfully.