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State Department formally notifies Congress it is effectively dissolving USAID ✍️: Sean Lyngaas and Jennifer Hansler / CNN cnn.com/2025/03/28/pol…

Ambivalence over the development sector means that few prominent voices in Africa wish to publicly mourn the loss of U.S. foreign assistance, even if they privately acknowledge its role in providing basic services, CFR Africa Program's Michelle Gavin writes: thinkglobalhealth.org/article/africa…

Big Pharma Avoids Worst-Case Tariff Scenario wsj.com/livecoverage/t… via @wsj

The market for Uranus headlines remains strong... "A day at Uranus just got 28 seconds longer" - Marcia Dunn / AP apnews.com/article/uranus…

Trump administration halts $1 billion in federal funding for Cornell, $790 million for Northwestern apnews.com/article/trump-…

Weeks after the Trump administration ordered the NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. - Sara Reardon / Science Insider science.org/content/articl…

New: March's egg prices increased to record high despite Trump’s predictions and bird flu outbreak slowing - Josh Funk / AP apnews.com/article/egg-pr…

This Pharma Company Is Betting Big On A Chinese Ozempic Rival - Amy Feldman / Forbes forbes.com/sites/amyfeldm…

"We're just handing out medicine and crossing our fingers." Christian Health Service Corps' Beth Stuebing describes how health-care professionals in Malawi are struggling to deliver essential services and contain HIV following the U.S. aid withdrawal. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/why-wo…

EcoHealth Alliance, the research nonprofit entangled in the COVID origins debate, is shutting down. A thread from its president:

Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants

USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” ✍️ : Sara Jerving / Devex devex.com/news/what-s-in…

I think Dr. Angela Rasmussen doesn’t get enough credit for the education and mentoring role she plays here on twitter, offering to help explain important virology concepts to those who do not share that expertise. 👏🏆🙏

The new U.S. executive order on pharmaceutical MFN pricing is (thankfully) limited to MFN reference pricing to high-income countries. But it risks reigniting MFN demands from middle-income countries, which could go beyond their own income group. Any cascading of MFN could

A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions. The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning. My thanks once again to World Health Organization (WHO) Member States for choosing to keep the world

The World Health Assembly has adopted the Pandemic Agreement. The catch: The treaty will not be signed, ratified, nor put into force until member states negotiate an annex section about Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS). thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fate-u…

Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days - Eric Holthaus / The Guardian If forecasts hold, the Midwest could experience degraded air quality tonight. NY could see the same to a lesser degree on Saturday theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…