Natalie Olson, PhD, MPH

Opinion | Bill Foege’s optimism helped save the world from smallpox His design of “surveillance-containment” changed the course of public health strategy.

We lost a public health legend yesterday, Bill Foege.

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I met an absolutely lovely academic who asked whether my department back home is affected by ICE -- a question dramatizing how little info is getting out.

For the record, the small example I chose:

My dept has a carpool to pick up grad students of color who can't safely commute to campus alone.

Disappointed that they fail to name any of the perpetrators or upstream causes of these violent conflicts in the piece.

CDC ACIP will meet Dec 4-5 to consider dropping the Hepatitis B vaccine from the childhood immunization schedule.

TODAY (Nov 24) is the final day to submit a comment urging ACIP to maintain their recommendation of Hepatitis B vaccination for all newborns. www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...

Farm-to-fork changes in poultry microbiomes and resistomes in Maputo City, Mozambique | mSystems While chicken eggs and meat are a critical protein source in low-income settings, antibiotics are routinely fed to chickens with consequences for selection of antimicrobial resistance. Evaluating how poultry gut bacterial communities, including potential ...

First @bsky.app post and first first-author paper! 🥹https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/msystems.01037-24

Pandemic potential of the Nipah virus and public health strategies adopted during outbreaks: Lessons from Kerala, India

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