Erin Aiello Bowles, MPH

Email spam from a “scientific” journal this morning:
“I really need a warm support from an ideal person like you.”
😂 😂 😂

Just to give the TL;DR on this one:

*The* main purpose of the EO is to move funding priorities and decisions away from experts and career professionals over to political appointees. With the ultimate power held by Vought / OMB.

Saaaame. Been here 5 mins and I’m ready to leave again.

Flyer for session on 'find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement'

DON'T MISS AT #SER2025: 'Find your public voice: leaning into advocacy and engagement' with @britshmit.bsky.social, @gregggonsalves.bsky.social, & @zinzinator.bsky.social!

I am thrilled to be chairing this exciting professional development session at #SER2025 on the Friday at 12pm!

#EpiSky

Same. Hang in there.

As 100 days in office comes up, let’s focus on the next few months:

Trump is trying to stop spending at NIH to justify cutting the NIH budget. Every US scientist should be in contact with their Congressional reps about this.

Get grants and money out the door soon or the money goes away.

WTF?! What on earth is happening right now?

A VA colleague just told me about this today….I don’t even know what to say. Some scary, scary times we are living in.

“No study is a better example of the enormous scientific impact of research on the prevention of chronic disease in the population, one of the stated priorities of the HHS leadership”
💔💔💔

Women’s Health Initiative, known for hormone therapy trials, to lose federal funding The Women's Health Initiative, the enormous study that shaped treatment of menopause and other conditions, is on the verge of shutting down.

“The funding cuts to the landmark nationwide Women’s Health Initiative will deal a devastating blow to the health of all older adults in the U.S. and throughout the world." www.statnews.com/2025/04/22/w...

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 More of this please.

Congrats!

Great masters level epi job here!!!

Thanks!

Yes, we have tissue samples as part of a nested case-control study (cases =women with a second breast cancer dx, controls=no second breast cancer)

No breast cancer free controls

Thrilled to see Macy Corley present on our NCI-Kaiser Permanente Breast Cancer Survivors cohort at #aspo2025
But bummed that NCI colleagues had to pre-record talks instead of being here in person.

Great cancer survivorship session this morning at #aspo2025 focused on personal experience, disparities, and sleep. And this gem:
“If you’re using an alarm to wake up in the morning, you’re not getting enough sleep.”
Ouch.

An attention-grabbing thing R1 presidents could do is to announce that should NIH (etc) cuts happen, they will reappropriate all athletics allocations into research to protect the core of their academic enterprise. If presidents had the chutzpah, this could stop the administration in its tracks.

Dang. Just learned ASPO (Amer soc for preventive oncology) didn’t receive their R13 conference grant from NCI for the first time ever, due to the EOs and delays. Still managed to hold a meeting this year. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
#aspo2025

Here’s what RFK Jr. has done since a measles outbreak began which has killed 3 people so far:

1. Buried a CDC report showing need for vaccination

2. Recommended vitamin A, resulting in liver damage in kids

3. Defunded vaccination clinics nationally

4. Hired a fraud to manipulate vaccine data

It gives me so much hope to see this! If I hadn’t been on a plane all day, I would have been at the protest in Seattle!

This is great but also NIH grants are never funded at the original, full amounts? I don’t remember the last time I didn’t have a 17% cut right off the top.

It was never about efficiency.

I want to point out two things about yesterday's HHS cuts
1- a FDA office was cut that's completely funded by tobacco settlement dollars. The cut saved the US $0 but cost scientists their jobs & will result in unsafe/unregulated products on store shelves
2- state & local health depts will be harmed

200 people fired locally today.

Never did I ever think it would get this bad. And I’m afraid it’s still going to get worse.

Am honestly sick over what is happening.

The first randomized trial comparing fecal occult blood testing (every other year) testing and (one-time) colonoscopy. No significant difference in colon cancer mortality among >56,000 participants
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @thelancet.bsky.social

I have no words.