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Our vaccine access tour continued in Tulsa with representatives from five Heartland states, all dedicated to improving child COVID vaccination rates. Thanks to Michelle Fiscus MD,FAAP 🌻💉❤️🌈 for her continued support of the Ariadne Labs Vaccine Equity Planner as we continue to showcase the tool.

So lucky to be among this awesome group of educators Harvard Medical School Dept of #GlobalHealth & #SocialMedicine. We asked - what are we teaching our students and how can we do better? @JoiaMukherjee Rebecca Weintraub NealBaer🏳️‍🌈 Robert Riviello Thanks for hosting Salmaan Keshavjee& Mecce!

Really appreciated the first episode of Céline Gounder, MD, ScM, FIDSA 🇺🇦's podcast on eradicating smallpox—especially about what it took to dream big. Check it out: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/epi…

Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics (CFA) CDC has released solicitations for two contracts due AUG 26 (corrected from earlier erroneous tweet). One is for a health organization partner to do rapid high-quality epidemiogic studies sam.gov/opp/51f3891506…

CDC The second is for a "Demographic Social Comorbidities Table" to estimate the number of persons in various risk categories for existing and future health threats sam.gov/opp/07ddfbc5aa… also due Aug 26.

Global health organizations frequently fall short in implementing their strategies due to suboptimal organizational design and staffing. Victoria Fan and I emphasize the necessity of comprehending and addressing this issue more effectively. cgdev.org/blog/state-dep…

Getting kids vaccinated has been challenging, in part because pediatricians cannot afford to use a 10-dose vial on one or two kids. “The pharmacies are not able to fill this gap for young kids in most cases," Ariadne Labs's Julie Rosenberg says. romper.com/parenting/covi…

For the first time ever, there are vaccines for 3 of the worst respiratory diseases we face in cold-and-#flu season. But significant numbers of Americans aren't planning on getting them, a new survey suggests. statnews.com/2023/09/28/flu…

Working on my last story for WAMU/DCist, and I am just nerding out so hard with this Vaccine Equity Planner. It shows the areas where it would take >15 min drive to get vaccinated, and it's not looking great for kids under 5. vaccineplanner.org

Thank you Aja Drain. You are right -- kids and their families across the nation are facing vaccine deserts - and struggle to access their vaccines.

Photo of the day: Rowing Mom Wins Nobel row2k.com/potd/10-3-2023…

Nearly 93% of babies born in Galicia, Spain this fall were given #nirsevimab (Beyfortus), the monoclonal antibody that protects against severe #RSV, in a clearly successful hospital-based distribution program. US supplies have been severely constrained. eurosurveillance.org/content/10.280…

How many medical schools are in Africa, and where are they? Medical Schools are essential institutions for preparing the workforce. We published our findings in @GlobalHealhBMJ—444 medical schools, a 160+% increase from 2010!

UPDATE: Rwanda's Ministry of Health says six people have so far succumbed to the Marburg virus disease (MVD), one day after it confirmed the presence of the deadly Viral Hemorrhagic Fever (VHF), with a total of 26 cases recorded in the country so far. Dr. Sabin Nsanzimana,

Mergers and acquisitions among international development NGOs—why don't they happen more frequently? Does greater scale truly create more value? Is similarity in organizational culture a more important factor in NGO mergers than in corporate ones? These are questions that have

Last December, when David Gergen's daughter Katherine Gergen Barnett disclosed that he had dementia, she wrote a beautiful column for the Boston Globe capturing some of his final reflections: bostonglobe.com/2024/12/19/opi…