Next up in our 'meet the editors' is Academic Editor Brooke Nichols (@brookeenichols.bsky.social), Associate Professor of Global Health at Boston University School of Public Health (@busph.bsky.social). Brooke specializes in infectious disease modeling and health economics. 🧪 #MedSky #PLOSMedicine
The newly reported increase in global childhood death rates, largely from infectious diseases, can be directly attributed to cuts to foreign aid, CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social (@busph.bsky.social) tells @wbur.org.
www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
"We should not accept this as an inevitable consequence of global crises—all of which, in one way or another, are man-made (like the climate crisis), and some intentional and man-made (like the cutting of foreign assistance)," @brookeenichols.bsky.social (@busph.bsky.social) continues.
"The idea that the number of kids dying before their 5th birthday could rise for the 1st time this century should shock all of us. What if it were your child?" CEID faculty Dr @brookeenichols.bsky.social tells @newsweek.com in response to new Gates Foundation report.
www.newsweek.com/child-deaths...
i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...
Conservatieve inschatting is dat inmiddels half miljoen mensen zijn gestorven door abrupte stopzetting van USAID financiering voor HIV-AIDS projecten. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
Een tool berekende dat met het stoppen van USAid bijna 150.000 volwassenen en ruim 300.000 kinderen stierven. Dat zijn 88 sterfgevallen per uur. Elke 3,18 minuten sterft er een extra kind aan longontsteking, iedere 4,15 minuten een aan diarree. Dit zijn dan nota bene nog voorzichtige berekeningen.
Voedsel, medicijnen, voorbehoedsmiddelen: de rigoreuze en onmiddellijke stopzetting van USAID betekent 88 extra doden per uur (!). @brookeenichols.bsky.social maakte een impactmeter die de doden telt. www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
En hier een interview:
www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
More Than 300,000 'Preventable' Deaths Since Musk, Trump, DOGE Shutdown of USAID: Today's #BradCast
Guest: Dr. @brookeenichols.bsky.social, Assoc. Prof of Global Health at Boston U; Also: Admin attacks CBO as budget bill found to add trillions to deficit...
FULL STORY, LISTEN: bradblog.com?p=15406
There is one place, however, where Musk, with the help of his minions, achieved his goals. He did indeed shred U.S.A.I.D. Though a rump operation is now operating inside the State Department, the administration says that it has terminated more than 80 percent of U.S.A.I.D. grants. Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Musk's chainsaw to programs that support impoverished folks has a body count.
Many thanks to my BU colleague
@brookeenichols.bsky.social
for developing the Impact Counter, an incredible tool that illustrates the invisible violence of policy. This is real science.
103 deaths per HOUR= 2472/day
#ForeignAid cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year.
Thanks @brookeenichols.bsky.social for your role in measuring/documenting the impact of this cruelty! www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
The best metric of Elon's time in Washington. @impactcounter.bsky.social
And meanwhile, “The Last of Us” is about to become a reality TV series.
www.independent.co.uk/news/science...
On his @ghpoliticspodcast.bsky.social, @josephharrisbu.bsky.social spoke with fellow CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social about the human toll of US foreign aid cuts, as calculated by her @impactcounter.bsky.social.
http://spr.ly/633262xO74
Reflecting on changes over Trump's first 100 days in office, @freep.com cites stats from CEID faculty @brookeenichols.bsky.social's @impactcounter.bsky.social, estimating the toll of cuts to PEPFAR.
http://spr.ly/633262v6Us
103 people die every hour thanks to US funding cuts, according to @brookeenichols.bsky.social. We can criticise aid, but it does save lives.
Graphic showing the silhouette of a small child, with parts of her soul disappearing (as butterflies flying away). She’s walking toward, but not reaching the USAID logo. The headline says: Every minute, one child dies because of USAID cuts There is a USAID logo in red and blue. At the bottom is a QR code and the text: impactcounter.com/ dashboard Data from the Boston University School of Public Health
This weekend, I worked on my protest signs for #MayDay and ended up doing a meme version of this one. The stats are horrifying and heartbreaking.
Amazing work by Dr. Brooke Nichols that should be more publicized. @brookeenichols.bsky.social
Thursday, May 1, 4-7PM
300 N Salisbury St
Raleigh, NC
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
More than 180,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
@brookeenichols.bsky.social (no relation) has assembled an extraordinary dashboard showing the human impact of the destruction of USAid.
Of anything I have posted, I beg that you take a moment to look at it.
www.impactcounter.com/dashboard?vi...
On BU Giving Day, this Wednesday, please consider making a gift of any amount to CEID. Your support helps fund our work such as @impactcounter.bsky.social developed by @brookeenichols.bsky.social to quantify lives lost due to cuts to PEPFAR.
Donate directly to CEID at give.bu.edu/schools/Bost...
Our overall 47 accountability tracker: the human toll of all funding discontinuation to date.
More than 150,000 and counting.
#FundingCutsCostLives
impactcounter.com/dashboard
The human toll of HIV funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
PEPFAR.impactcounter.com
#HIV #FundingCutsCostLives #USAID
The human toll of tuberculosis funding discontinuation to date.
Hold the administration to account.
Tb.impactcounter.com
#tb #endTB #FundingCutsCostLives
A screen capture of the article linked above stating that “there will be an additional death from TB every seven minutes“.
@johngreensbluesky.bsky.social have you seen this counter, tracking how many people have likely died from tuberculosis since USAID funding was cut? www.bu.edu/articles/202...
People are really better than natural disasters at killing other people.
