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Mashup Score: 6Subscribe - 10 month(s) ago
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Mashup Score: 0At a precipice, the CDC tries to pivot - 11 month(s) ago
“We must pivot,” said CDC director Walensky post-COVID. As she prepares to depart, here are the areas experts say the agency must focus on.
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Post-Walensky, CDC revamp should address these four problems https://t.co/n9sj7Q5w4v
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Mashup Score: 12Climate change could be keeping you up at night - 11 month(s) ago
Nighttime temperatures are rising around the world. New research shows being too warm at night could disturb sleep, and lead to poorer health.
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Research shows that rising temperatures could disrupt sleep much more often, leading to increased health problems on a population level https://t.co/BslmL635x4
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Mashup Score: 15To protect gender-affirming care, we must learn from trans history - 11 month(s) ago
The current culture war isn’t the first time gender-affirming care has come under fire. It’s time to break the cycle.
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“It may be tempting to see the Nazi period as an anomaly, but it has clear parallels to today’s efforts to demonize and dehumanize the LGBTQ+ community and deny the very existence of trans people.” – Alejandra Caraballo (@Esqueer_) in @PublicHealthMag https://t.co/3i2SBArw96
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Mashup Score: 2AI is already tracking the next pandemic - 11 month(s) ago
Purveyors of AI epidemic surveillance services like Epiwatch saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to prove their products’ predictive capacity.
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“BlueDot, an outbreak intelligence startup..says its customer base has grown by 475% surge since 2020 when it sent an alert to clients about an emerging illness in Wuhan 5 days before the WHO announced it was tracking a ‘cluster of pneumonia cases’” https://t.co/cWzTOGPGmn
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Clean water access is hard to come by in many places, including parts of the U.S. Water microbiologist Joan Rose has ideas on improving it.
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90% of climate disasters are related to water, but only 3% of climate finance is directed towards building resilient water systems. Water microbiologist Joan Rose says sustainable water infrastructure is the answer. https://t.co/wUtEEQu8Hf
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Mashup Score: 4Susan Cheng is exploring the mechanics of healthy aging - 11 month(s) ago
The cardiologist and epidemiologist studied differences in COVID-19 immune response and is scaling up an ambitious new research program on aging.
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“We used to think that once the human genome was coded, we were going to cure all disease. It is now clear there is much more work to do,” says Susan Cheng, a graduate of the Harvard Chan School Clinical Effectiveness program. From @PublicHealthMag: https://t.co/q3nVuC5IJz
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Mashup Score: 3Q&A: Ankur Pandya on health decision science - 11 month(s) ago
The Harvard Chan associate professor discusses how health decision science can help make tough choices easier, and how teaching is like stand-up comedy.
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“Articulating the trade-offs and lining them up alongside the benefits, the pros and cons, and the known unknowns is helpful,” says Harvard Chan School's @AnkurFactorial in this Q&A on health decision science for @PublicHealthMag. https://t.co/C6d8ClA24q
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Mashup Score: 0At a precipice, the CDC tries to pivot - 11 month(s) ago
“We must pivot,” said CDC director Walensky post-COVID. As she prepares to depart, here are the areas experts say the agency must focus on.
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“success will only come if the CDC can rebuild the public’s trust, create a more response-oriented culture, improve how it gathers and uses data, and be more flexible with its resources.” https://t.co/tWhslsxV7h
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Mashup Score: 5As climate change erodes land and health, one tribe fights back - 11 month(s) ago
After decades of coastal land loss, a small Louisiana tribe looks to a young chief to help it find its place in the future.
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“How do you live a healthy, happy, productive life when you can physically see your lands eroding away in your backyard?” asks Devon Parfait, chief of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of the Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw. Read his story & more in @PublicHealthMag: https://t.co/IIuV9M0u2H
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