Caitlin Ryus MD, MPH

Our Shared Challenges Video Porchlight CEO Tom Neumark sat down with Dr Jihad Malasi, GP & ICB Mental Health lead, Dr Joe Tay Teck (Glasgow GP and Harkness Fellow), and Caitlin Ryus (associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health & Emergency Doctor) to discuss what global approaches can teach us about supporting people experiencing homelessness to live happy, healthy lives.

Today is World Homeless Day

Honored to join the podcast: “Our Shared Challenges: International Perspectives on Homelessness”

Grateful to Porchlight, Jihad Malasi, Joe Tay Teck, and Tom Neumark for such a rich and hopeful exchange

#WorldHomelessDay #HousingFirst #HealthEquity #Homelessness

Help Prove RFK Jr. is Wrong | Defend Public Health When Senator Wyden stated he’d heard from thousands of doctors and scientists concerned by RFK Jr’s policies, Kennedy responded "I'll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day.” Let's prove Kennedy ...

RFK Jr. to the Senate & @wyden.senate.gov: “Scientists and doctors are supporting me all across the country…I’ll put my mailbag against your mailbag any day”

Let’s prove him wrong

Join @defendpublichealth.bsky.social's postcard campaign. Stand for truth, not RFK
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“Morally wrong and politically suicidal”
Even Sen. Josh Hawley is sounding the alarm on Trump’s slash to #Medicaid. @mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social
explain why rural Republican voters will pay the price @thehill.com
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social in the house!

how the left lost the internet YouTube video by hazelisonline

A practical plan to fight back towards the end.

youtu.be/VULp8JuYZoQ?...

Defying DeSantis, Florida Pride Marchers Light Up Jacksonville Bridge with Rainbow Colors LGBT Floridians demonstrated that they didn’t need state permission for queer visibility.

Pride marchers light up a Jacksonville Bridge
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How the Trump Administration Is Weakening the Enforcement of Fair Housing Laws Starting with cases involving sexual orientation and identity, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is hobbling enforcement of the Fair Housing Act. Said one HUD attorney: “People are…

NEW: Kennell Staten filed a complaint with HUD, saying he was denied an apartment for being gay — a complaint the agency had long taken seriously.

Two days later, HUD informed him that it did not view allegations like his as subject to federal law.

By @jessecoburn.bsky.social

It’s so strange seeing oneself on camera… but this really speaks to why I do what I do!

Hot take: probably more accurately representative than The Pitt 🤓🏥🚑

#EMsky #SAEM25 #MedSky

His crusade at #HHS is a masterclass in dressing up conspiracy theories in lab coats. Sorry #RFKJr, but sounding like science isn’t the same as sound science #MakeAmericaSmartAgain

Exploring the complexity of homelessness in emergency medicine: Dissecting myths, evidence, and solutions Background Emergency departments serve as critical-access points for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). These patients face significant health disparities and are subject to stigmatization and ...

If you care about #healthequity, #emergencymedicine, or #housingjustice — this one's for you!

Let's replace stigma with structure
Let's meet people where they are
Let’s move from reaction to transformation

#HousingIsHealth

Structural competency means understanding health as shaped by policy, power, and infrastructure

We make the case for embedding this approach into medical education and EM practice. #MedEd

Biases in care—including assumptions about drug use, personal responsibility, or "ED misuse"—can lead to missed diagnoses, premature discharges, and moral distress for providers.

We need a shift in training, perspective, and policy. #homelessness #unhoused

Exploring the complexity of homelessness in emergency medicine: Dissecting myths, evidence, and solutions Background Emergency departments serve as critical-access points for people experiencing homelessness (PEH). These patients face significant health disparities and are subject to stigmatization and ...

New in @aemet.es: Our team breaks down persistent myths about homelessness in emergency medicine and offers a #structuralcompetency framework to guide better care, research, and advocacy

#EMSky #SocialEM #MedSky #PublicHealth

@yale-em.bsky.social

Opinion | Harvard’s Strength and How Far We’ve Fallen So Quickly The thrill over its response to the Trump administration is a measure of how low, and how fast, our expectations have fallen.

“The university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.”

In the face of authoritarian overreach, Harvard chose the Constitution over capitulation.

This is a line in the sand. Let’s make integrity ordinary again.

#AcademicFreedom #DefendDemocracy #HigherEd

#3 for sure. 7 inches is enough to teleport to the other side of a locked door… 😇

From Vacant Units To Vital Homes: How One Program Is Housing Hundreds Community Solutions shows how homelessness can be solved by using real-time data to purchase and convert apartments into permanent housing.

#Housing #Homeless #HomelessHousing #Program 🥰💚
invisiblepeople.tv/from-vacant-...

Senate committee leaders ask RFK Jr. to testify on HHS overhaul The HELP Committee’s top Republican is describing his invitation to the HHS secretary as routine amid mass layoffs at the agency.

Senators Bill Cassidy and Bernie Sanders have summoned RFK Jr. to appear before the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee to ‘splain himself. I suspect that Cassidy will once again be snowed by RFK Jr.’s penchant for exceptionally skilled lying. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Permanent Supportive Housing Spotlights Challenges After Homelessness A reporter and photographer documented the lives of residents and staff at the Lenniger, a permanent supportive housing complex in New York City.

"Over the past four years, 97 percent have either remained at the Lenniger or moved to other housing."

In-depth reporting on life in PSH in @nytimes.com with key messages 🧵

Two Years in a Place Where Homelessness Ends www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Oy Canada: Three Yale Profs Pack Their Bags In late February, I took a seat at the extended table of a Hamden scholar who hosted a group of locals: donors to the annual LEAP fundraiser. And, along…

​“‘Leadership won’t matter,’ he said. ​‘What will really matter and make a difference is a response from the ground up.’ That is, for the citizens of this country to rise up and defend democracy…We won’t be saved by leaders, but by ourselves”

Also worth noting Biden’s DoJ had brought a suit against Idaho for violating EMTALA (by banning abortions even in emergencies). The Tr*mp regime has dropped the case, so pregnant people in Idaho can continue to be die from being denied life-saving abortions

This is one of my favorite graphics to use in demonstrating vaccine effectiveness against measles. There’s a tendency to think that our local situation is different (better) than elsewhere so that maybe vaccines aren’t as helpful. Nebraska is the line between ND and NH (alphabetical by abbreviation)

Amid political shift, Yale experts weigh vaccine skepticism and scientific integrity As vaccine sentiment fluctuates and political scrutiny increases, Yale researchers weigh in on scientific transparency, funding shifts and how best to communicate emerging finding.

Science communication is never neutral — especially now. This piece digs into how researchers are navigating vaccine skepticism, disinformation, and the urgent need to communicate #science with rigor, clarity, and courage.
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Trump team revokes $11 billion in funding for addiction, mental health care The Trump administration says it hopes to save $11.4 billion by freezing and revoking COVID-era grants. Addiction experts say clawing back the federal funding is risky and could put patients at risk.

Mental health and addiction funding on the federal chopping block

#addictionmedicine #publichealth #DOGE

From @wsj.com, RFK Jr./DOGE are planning to cut 10,000 technical & scientific experts from HHS on top of the 10,000 who have left amid the Trump administration's efforts to silence experts, shroud these agencies in further secrecy, & promote disinformation. 3500 or 19% of FDA will be fired. #MedSky

Senate confirms Trump’s nominee to run NIH The Senate on Tuesday confirmed health researcher Jay Bhattacharya as the next leader of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).  Bhattacharya was confirmed on a party- line vote, 53 to 47.  …

Get ready for more censorship, less dissent, less intellectual freedom, less funding for research in all areas, more prematurely ended careers, less biosafety, less health security, less preparedness, fewer vaccines, fewer jobs, & more dead people.

thehill.com/policy/healt...

Yale epidemiologist rallies experts to ‘Defend Public Health’ against proposed Trump cuts Mirroring his activism on AIDS and COVID, a Yale researcher has mobilized a group of 3,000 concerned citizens taking action as Defend Public Health.

Honored to be featured alongside @gregggonsalves.bsky.social in this piece on @defendpublichealth.bsky.social and the growing movement of clinicians, researchers, and advocates pushing back against attacks on #science and #publichealth

We’re just getting started!
#Medsky #Episky #ScienceNotSilence

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

The crush of new grant cancellations hasn't let up.

If your grant was terminated (or your app was pulled) please use this Google Form👇 to submit details for tracking purposes.

Multiple advocacy efforts are moving forward, but we must must must know more about what grants were cancelled and why.

Protect the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division ⭑ 5 Calls Amid broad threats to slash Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staffing, the Trump administration is reportedly considering slashing …

☎️ ☎️ Get those phones out folks! Protect #CDC #HIVPrevention Division

Defunding/eliminating the CDC’s HIV Prevention Division, jeopardizes decades of progress in fighting #HIV/AIDS.

#DefendPublicHealth #ActionAlert #IDsky #Episky #Medsky #PublicHealth

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Cuts to HUD are cuts to homes In this time of uncertainty, my thoughts turn to all that’s at stake for Minnesotans and others.

HUD's work profoundly affects people’s lives: HUD backs loans for homes, apartments, and nursing homes, helps seniors and people with disabilities on fixed incomes stay in their homes, finances new affordable buildings, helps prevent discrimination, and more.

www.startribune.com/cuts-to-hud-...

HUD choked funding to enforce fair-housing laws. Legal aid groups may not survive Most housing discrimination claims are handled by local nonprofits around the country. They say the Trump administration has hobbled them, and are challenging the cuts as unlawful.

The Trump administration has cut off federal funding to nonprofits that are key enforcers of anti-discrimination laws. Last year there were more than 34,000 fair-housing complaints, a record high for the third year in a row. @jenniferludden.bsky.social @npr.org

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