'China will not simply fill the gap left by US withdrawal from the WHO and its slashing of development assistance for health; its greater prominence in global health could alter the system itself' www.9dashline.com/article/chin... by @jeremyyoude.bsky.social
Fred! Good to find you on here!
Lenny would very much like you to throw the ball.
The last time someone tried to do this, Mr Burns got shot.
RIP Carl Carlson. We’re going to miss you so much. Thanks for choosing us to be your people.
I love my city.
Portland Half Marathon today. Ideal running conditions, great crowds, lots of love—hardly a war zone.
Also, get yourself a favorite band that sticks with its trans homies.
There is much wrong with the world, but there’s still The Hold Steady live.
I'm glad that there finally is a strategy, but it just reminds us all how much devastation has been done to the global health sector and how hard it will be to rebuild the trust that the US generated over the past 30+ years in global health. /fin
Finally, a strategy like this shows just how important institutions are--and how neglected they are in this strategy. We need a strong CDC, WHO, and other institutions to make something like this feasible, and those get little attention (and no restoration of resources) in this strategy.
Fourth, there's a sense of "everything old is new again" in this strategy. What's to suggest that these approaches will work any better this time, especially under an administration that has been actively hostile toward global health programs?
Third, how do you square everything in this plan with the realities of completely gutting the funding and staffing for global health in the US government over the past nine months?
Second, reaching agreements with individual states by April 2026? That seems....optimistic. What sort of groundwork has been laid? The Trump Administration's past promises of lots of agreements in a short amount of time haven't exactly borne fruit.
First, it's striking how the focus on bilateral agreements and not engaging with international organizations mirrors much of the approach that China has taken to global health.
The Trump Administration finally released its global health strategy. A few initial thoughts from me....
www.npr.org/sections/goa...
Very much looking forward to this conversation during these fraught times. Join us!
Mike Jordan and Martha Bennett talking about the challenges and opportunities in Portland local government. Love this connection between PSU and the city!
So grateful to Doug for his generosity and his ongoing dedication to the Hatfield School!
www.pdx.edu/hatfield-sch...
The best part of #ISA2025! Thanks for the run and the great chat about politics, research, and live music!
soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...
A square canvas. Only the top corner is filled with Harings distinctive figures, rendered in Lavender, the rest is blank.
Keith Haring died of AIDS aged 31 on 16 Feb 1990.
One of his last works, Unfinished Painting, was deliberately incomplete, reflecting the devastating, unquantifiable loss to the arts due to AIDS.
#LGBTplusHistoryMonth
Good thing we’ve wiped out all infectious diseases and no new ones ever spring up….oh, wait.
"Abandoning this leadership position undermines trust in the U.S., on global health and many other issues, and those effects will linger long after Trump is out of office."
Check out my latest piece on Trump gutting global health programs in Democracy in Exile
dawnmena.org/trumps-gutti...
Happy second birthday, Lenny Leonard!
Because of course he did. Shortsighted doesn’t even begin to describe this situation. You can’t make something better if you aren’t even at the table.
Happy 3rd birthday, Carl Carlson!
Never change, #Duluth
Listening to @daveholmes.bsky.social’s best of 2024 playlist and officially deciding to turn all music discovery responsibility over to him. Seriously good stuff, my friends. music.apple.com/us/playlist/...
The least believable part of “Wicked” was when everyone started clapping when the dean entered the room.
