@inditrehan
Human, pediatrician, UW professor. Global child health, malnutrition, infectious diseases, emergency medicine, climate change. Logical liberalism, bad puns. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-staff/indi-trehan
Over the past five years, the production of antibiotics has slowed, leaving children in low- and middle-income countries particularly vulnerable to hard-to-treat infections amid the global drug resistance crisis.
The full story via SciDevNet: bit.ly/4rtRuJp
Oil isn’t getting through the Strait of Hormuz but sunlight and wind are.
⏰ For too long, nutrition interventions have been viewed through the lens of welfare or aid.
🎯 It is time to shift that perspective. Investing in the nutrition of women is one of the highest-yield investments we can make in a nation's economic stability.
Wars of choice murder countless people today—and drown the homes of countless people tomorrow.
—Each 5-year delay in peaking carbon emissions will cause an extra 8 inches of sea-level rise by 2300.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Hey I did a fun thing with @warren.senate.gov about breaking up giant healthcare conglomerates
Graph of award probability of R35 and R01 from NIH factbook as a function of review rank percentile. As is apparent, 2025 is a significant departure, with lower award probabilities at all scores <40 and significant departures from norm, where even being in the top 10% is no longer a nearly certain indicator of success. Data source: https://report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/report/302
The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted.
What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards.
Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.
The US and Israel are bombing schools, hospitals (nine hospitals) and other civilian facilities in Iran. They have massacred over 700 civilians, including nearly 200 children. Absolute genocidal monsters.
feeling compelled to post this new yorker reject from years ago, for some reason
It sucks being the citizen of a pariah state
things every single republican president of your lifetime has done
- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.”
James Baldwin
We’re honoring our 2026 Outstanding Alumni Award recipients at Alumni Weekend (March 26–28)!
@inditrehan.bsky.social
Dr. Anne Lucky
Dr. William Keenan
Let’s fill the room with the people who make this community special.
tinyurl.com/AlumniWeekend2026
☢️🫥☢️
Art: "War is not healthy for children and other living things."
Lorraine Schneider, 1967.
My quote of the day
War does not determine who is right - only who is left.
Bertrand Russell
Updated:
Good news of the decade: Acoziborole Winthrop, developed by @dndi.org & Sanofi, receives European Medicines Agency positive opinion as three-tablet, single-dose Rx for most common form of sleeping sickness-soon over injectable arsenic derivative Rx with serious side effects dndi.org/press-releas...
It may well remain the most realistic medical TV show….
Anti-vaxx propaganda from 1898. Nothing's changed.
#Mali
An estimated 1.12 million cases of children and 91,000 pregnant or breastfeeding women in Mali are expected to suffer from acute malnutrition through October 2026—including 227,000 life-threatening cases of severe acute malnutrition.
Read the full Report: www.ipcinfo.org/fileadmin/us...
(1/2) Stunning bat cave footage captures spillover risk for first time
The discovery of so many animals feeding on the bats may be a ‘Rosetta Stone’ for understanding how diseases spread between animals
In our new paper (BMJ Global Health), we systematically collected 923 historical growth studies covering 122 countries from 1814–2016.
By harmonising height-by-age data, we reconstruct stunting patterns over two centuries.
Link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg...
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Mine in this week’s @newyorker.com
This worked out well once before, so let's try again!
Would love to catch up with some old friends and mentors! Who's coming?!
Food alone isn’t enough for children facing malnutrition. See how Dr. Mark Manary and Dr. Kevin Stephenson, working with the Salk Institute, found unstable gut microbes as a cause of stunted growth and opened doors to improved treatment for millions. medicine.washu.edu/news/microbi...
In exciting news, our recent paper as part of the @arc-yharc.bsky.social has been featured in an editorial! It's great that our message around the role of triaging in managing demand for urgent and emergency care is being emphasised.
#NHS #UEC #ResearchImpact #NIHR #EmergencyMedicine #PatientFlow
