@drsyramadad
Epidemiologist 🦠 Biosecurity Advisor ☣️ Chief Biopreparedness Officer NYC Health + Hospital 🏥 Faculty Boston Uni CEID & NETEC 🧬 Fellow Harvard Belfer Center 🎥On Netflix, Discovery & History Channel 📝Write for NY Academy of Sciences
We’re excited to launch the Special Pathogens Biopreparedness Map, an open-source, interactive tool from @nychealthsystem.bsky.social
that helps clinicians, public health & EM teams track global outbreaks,connect travel history to risk + access critical disease resources
www.biopreparednessmap.org
'Vaccine-Preventable Series: Measles explained—what it does, how it spreads, and how we prevent it...'
@drsyramadad.bsky.social and Tom Hoffman
criticalhealthvoices.substack.com/p/measles-ru...
To the scientists, clinicians, trial volunteers, public health leaders, funders & advocates, thank you for continuing the good fight. This is what progress looks like.
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Grateful to see this milestone and to cheer on my fellow Netflix co-star Jake Glanville (Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak) and the extraordinary teams expanding what vaccines can mean for global health, pandemic prep, & healthy lifespan.
A proactive, epitope-focused strategy targeting conserved viral regions could redefine flu prevention, moving us from reaction to readiness.
I talked w/ uniformed health workers about their deployments to prisons where ICE holds immigrants.
ICE's operation is especially secretive at Guantanamo -- the place where America flouted its own rules to torture detainees post 9/11.
@wired.com and @kffhealthnews.org (no paywall)
My latest: A look inside the secretive immigration prisons at Guantanamo—and the ethical questions that doctors and nurses face to treat those inside.
Enhanced Code Blue is in effect.
If you see someone experiencing homelessness out in the cold, call 311.
Limit outdoor exposure, use caution when traveling, and check on vulnerable neighbors.
Stay safe and look out for one another
Mayor Mamdani announced an RFI, the first step toward bringing 2-K to NYC & expanding access to 3-K through the citywide child care program. In this brief video, he breaks down what an RFI is for providers & how child care quality will be protected for parents
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A female Asian elephant calf has been born at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute (NZCBI) in Washington, DC, the first in almost a quarter of a century. https://cnn.it/4bChcXR
🦠 This #PictureOfTheWeek is spirulina alga, a type of cyanobacteria. They've been around for 3.5 billion years, survived countless world changes, and helped oxygenate the planet through photosynthesis. Listen to our last broadcast to find out what they can teach us about resilience. buff.ly/NoEML3k
The US may be weeks from losing its measles elimination status. But what does that mean exactly?
Writing for @nyasciences.bsky.social, CEID affiliate @syramadad.bsky.social explains this isn't just a symbolic designation, it's a technical time-bound measurement.
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The measles outbreak in South Carolina now stands at 664 cases, basically doubling in a week, and it's spread to several other states. The outbreak first began in Texas a year ago this week - which means the U.S. is going to lose its elimination status. My latest:
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
Proud to share that 3 @nychealthsystem.bsky.social
—Elmhurst, Harlem & Jacobi, are now Special Pathogen Treatment Centers!
This strengthens regional surge capacity, builds on our legacy from smallpox to Ebola to COVID-19, and expands safe, specialized care for our communities.
'The current flu season one of the worst the U.S. has seen in decades', according to @syramadad.bsky.social an epidemiologist who publishes a weekly analysis of respiratory virus trends in her newsletter: Critical Health Voices. substack.com/@criticalhea... @livescience.com
Very much looking forward to my fireside chat with @syramadad.bsky.social next Thursday at 1pm PST at the Belfer Center @harvardkennedy.bsky.social on "Genomic Surveillance & Pathogen Data Sharing: A New Era for Scientific Diplomacy".
Virtual, so come join us!
harvard.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
With states across the country seeing surges in flu cases, Dr. @syramadad.bsky.social explains how flu vaccine effectiveness always varies by year and subtype, but even when not a perfect match, vaccination provides meaningful protection against hospitalization & death.
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Drones detect deadly virus in Arctic whales' breath
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