Rue Silver, MPH

Hello, I am extremely interested. Application in progress!

Once again, @mackaracka.bsky.social with the enormously impactful news!

also, modern democracy cannot exist if you can't trust the experts. no one can be an expert in everything; experts aren't always right, but the point of expertise is to be able to be right more often than non experts so that society can work.

Engagement is not the opposite of loneliness, but engagement is done in a community - and community is the opposite of isolation, essentially.

Sorry for the side thread, @minnesotagirl.bsky.social, I have so MANY thoughts about this I might have to do a whole blog.

This is such a hard one, because people over 65 should be lauded for living that long but never made to feel "old," especially since it isn't really, anymore. (Using "retired," similarly, doesn't work.)

My first thought is something like "[lower age]+ Engagement Program."

These Zika mothers went to battle — and their cry was heard After the Zika outbreak ended in Brazil, many families faced a new reality: a child whose life was irrevocably altered after the mother contracted the virus while pregnant. Here's what happened next.

Remember when conversations about Zika were everywhere, and then almost immediately fell by the wayside because Zika predominantly affected Brown women in South America? Ten years later, these mothers are still fighting for justice.

In moments I wish I still TAed statistics for health sciences, this is a real big one

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Exeter have found that getting vaccinated against shingles- a painful and debilitating condition that can flare up years after infection from varicella zoster virus- not only LOWERS the risk of infection, but can also PROTECT against Alzheimer’s disease!

This is the post on X about the junk science HHS report about transgender care for minors. I annotated it to point out how evil and bad it is

HHS leaders are doubling down on harm. Their new “report” on gender-affirming care for minors is junk science. Skip it.

Check this out instead:
sph.washington.edu/news-events/...
It links to real evidence-based research

Bottom line: Gender-affirming care improves mental health and saves lives
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know how I've been saying that some in public health will embrace MAHA? treat it like a legitimate public health project instead of the fascist, eugenicist purge to 'MAGA-ify the gene pool' that it is?

Others, like JHU, will point out the lies: publichealth.jhu.edu/2025/the-evi...

really I just want to be @maiasz.bsky.social when I grow up. How can I reach that career goal?

Powerful New Antibiotic Was 'Hiding in Plain Sight' For Decades Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic – in a significant discovery made not by breaking new ground, but by revisiting familiar territory.

New antibiotic

www.sciencealert.com/powerful-new...

Holy. Crap. Wow. This is absolutely amazing. @ebergdahl.bsky.social!

I've been highly resistant to adding any kind of ML to my tech skillset, because my work in health technology and data has always been about equity.

For the first time, I'm reconsidering learning ML programming—because clinicians ARE adopting it, and someone needs to put the equity IN it. Maybe me

lost my job helping provide buprenorphine to all in the January purge. still unemployed!

We Need to Double Down on Harm Reduction, Not Walk Away From It | Common Dreams We have come too far to turn our backs on what works when it comes to sound, life-saving drug policies. Now is the wrong time to politicize practical, proven responses to this medical emergency.

We Need to Double Down on Harm Reduction, Not Walk Away From It www.commondreams.org/opinion/we-n...

ISO: Your favorite/best articles about social determinants of health as factors in Black maternal mortality in the US.

#phsky #episky do we have #sdohsky yet

Transgender people make up, depending on your source, around 1% of the population. But they make up 0.1% of mass shooters. Meaning that transgender people are far less likely to be mass shooters. If it were proportionate, 42 of the shooters would have been transgender, not just 4.

Feeling real rough being unemployed while the "new CDC" hires a bunch of non-experts.

Currently I am looking for work as a clinical data analyst, which is the focus of my resume, but I can also sit the CHES exam and do other things in health tech!

Thank you for the distribution!

Anyone who wants it, here's a non-paywall link to my 2019 column on tear gas in Nature, the world's most prestigious scientific journal.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Measles exposure site confirmed in Oakland County Measles is a highly contagious disease that is spread by direct person-to-person contact and through the air.

MICHIGAN

Anyone who visited a medical office building at 3950 S. Rochester Road in Rochester Hills on Tues, June 3, may have been exposed to the measles.

The office building is on the corner of Rochester Road and South Boulevard. Anyone who was there between 8 a.m.-7:30 p.m. may have been exposed.

Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths Grassroots public health efforts and shifts in drug use have contributed to the sharp decline in overdose deaths.

Experts Credit Harm Reduction, Not Border Cops, for 27% Drop in Overdose Deaths

I cover the OD crisis closely cuz I lost so many friends.

If anyone gets credit for the decline in death, it's community activists like Tasha in this photo, and drug users themselves.

truthout.org/articles/exp...

Great. You're right, he does.

If anyone out there has taken it, tips welcome! I haven't worked solely as a coder in about ten years, though I have used coding.

After [mumble] number of years, due to my job search continuing far, wide, and unsuccessfully so far ... I am preparing to take the AHIMA CCS test. My medical coding skills are far beyond entry level but I have no evidence of this.

are those WMDs... hold on, let me check my notes, you guys are changing definitions of words so fast over there... here we go!

are the WMDs fentanyl patches?

their adhesive might fuck up the finish, i see your concern.

I value my graduate education very much.

I also think a fifth grader could find the trendline and see that it is going up.

RFK Jr.’s Prescription for Bird Flu on Farms: Let It Spread The health secretary has suggested allowing the virus to spread, so as to identify birds that may be immune. Such an experiment would be disastrous, scientists say.

In epidemiology, we have a special name for the strategy of letting a disease spread unchecked through a population in order to encourage the development of "natural immunity".

It's called an epidemic.

#episky
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/18/h...

AHRQ puns are practically a requirement thanks to the whole situation behind naming it in the first place. This is terrifying.