
Brooke Nichols
@brookenichols
Associate Prof, @BUSPH Dept of Global Health, infectious disease modeller & health economist, mom, runner
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14-04-2009 02:37:07
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Our estimates of child deaths from your funding cuts/freeze, Secretary Marco Rubio, are accurate based on available info. Share what activities and partners are being funded now and ahead, and weāll update the death toll. Senator Jeff Merkley Bernie Sanders The New York Times devex.com/news/death-refā¦




A The New York Times op-ed cites statistics from CEID faculty Dr. Brooke Nichols's ImpactCounter, estimating 300,000 deaths due to USAID cuts. spr.ly/6012Nfi8Q


Dr Brooke Nichols Boston University School of Public Health has estimated that Musk's cuts at USAID have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. Thank you Michelle Goldberg nytimes.com/2025/05/30/opiā¦


Joshua Rothman The New Yorker Dwarkesh Patel Cecilia Kang CSIS Wadhwani AI Center Tressie McMillan Cottom Paul Krugman zeynep tufekci Julia Angwin Ross Douthat The New York Times Brooke Nichols Michelle Goldberg Legacy #DOGEBlitzkrieg & Contra Rubio re #USAID: "To deny the reality of dying children not only insults the memory of children starving to death in Sudan & Yemen & Afghanistan; it also insults the intelligence of Americans" nytimes.com/2025/05/31/opi⦠Hear Nicholas Kristof US public.



Speaking to NCR, Brooke Nichols outlines the calculation methods used in her ImpactCounter, as well as the difficulty of getting to precise estimates of these impacts from cuts to federal health funding. spr.ly/60124uy8g



"The value of the retrospective work is helpful to show the world what can be done with concerted effort, bipartisan support to show just how much impact you can have," Brooke Nichols tells KUOW Public Radio, commenting on a UCLA study analyzing impact of USAID cuts. spr.ly/60144l3Dk


According to Brooke Nichols at #IAS2025, self-test-based PrEP continuation could offset the costs of bespoke programming for groups like MSM and female sex workers, allowing services to be maintained even amid funding cuts.
