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Catharine Young

@catgyoung.bsky.social
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Scientist || Immigrant || Senior Fellow @HarvardChanSPH || Fmr: White House #CancerMoonshot, @CornellBME, @TEDFellow || 🇿🇦 + 🇺🇸. Still fighting the good fight on X: @DrCatharineY

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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Second alpha episode alert! Featuring @reneehlozek.bsky.social, an astrophysicist, cosmologist and associate professor at @utoronto.ca. Renée studies questions almost too large to hold in our minds. What is the universe made of? How did it begin? How will it end? (she answers this one btw!).
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Behind the scenes from today’s podcast with an amazing science communication expert. We talk strategy, humor, and did you know the comments you read below science content influence what you think about the science itself? (Bad news for me 😂) Stay tuned for more!
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Who are the women in STEM whose stories deserve to be told? I’m starting to build Season 2 of a podcast about extraordinary women shaping our future through science, technology, and discovery. Season 1 is locked and will drop soon! Please share who I should be talking to next!
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 22/01/2026
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The same mRNA technology used in COVID vaccines is now cutting melanoma recurrence and death nearly in half.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Viruses don’t care about you. Apparently, neither do our policies.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Remember when pregnant women were being told not to take Tylenol? A new Lancet review a finds no causal link between prenatal acetaminophen use and autism or ADHD. What does matter during pregnancy: high fevers. Source: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
This should come as absolutely no surprise. The US isn’t losing its edge because our universities got worse. We are losing it because others are investing faster while we cut funding, restrict talent, and politicize science. These rankings are the first signal of the decline.
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to Follow on Social Media in 2025 @catgyoung.bsky.social @shikhajainmd.bsky.social oncodaily.com/positive/100... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #WomenInOncology #SM
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100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to Follow on Social Media in 2025 - OncoDaily
100 Influential Women in Oncology: Key Opinion Leaders to Follow on Social Media in 2025 / 100 Influential Women in Oncology, 100 Influential Women in
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 01/08/2025
@catgyoung.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/07/31/n...
Some good news.  The senate committee rejected the 40% budget cut for NIH and instead endorsed a $400 million budget increase.  Science for the win.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 27/07/2025
@catgyoung.bsky.social bigthink.com/starts-with-...
American science to soon face its largest brain drain in history
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 20/07/2025
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The essence of global health equity is the idea that something so precious as health might viewed as a right.
-Dr.Paul Farmer
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OncoDaily @oncodaily.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
CancerWorld - From the Lab to The White House: The Story of Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social oncodaily.com/stories/cath... #OncoDaily #Oncology #Cancer #Health #Medicine #MedEd #MedOnc #MedNews #WhiteHouse #CancerWorld
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From the Lab to The White House: The Story of Catharine Young - CancerWorld - OncoDaily
From the Lab to The White House: The Story of Catharine Young - CancerWorld
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 23/05/2025
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The EU has officially released their “Choose Europe for Science” plan
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 22/05/2025
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We’re going to lose an entire generation of scientists.  NSF, one of the largest federal funders of STEM education has seen an 80> reduction in , including support for trainees so far this year.  You can’t have science without scientists.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/05/2025
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In case anyone needs to hear this: some forms of prostate cancer are aggressive and can progress rapidly, often undetected until they are advanced. Speculative narratives and misinformation around late-stage diagnoses are damaging to the entire cancer patient community.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 19/05/2025
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There has never been a president who fought harder for cancer patients than Joe Biden.  This diagnosis hits so many deeply, but I remain profoundly grateful for his unwavering service and commitment to those working to save lives and to ease the suffering of so many.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Nearly $400M in taxpayer investment was thrown away by canceling critical research midstream, halting studies before results could benefit the public. That 💯 is not reform. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...
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NIH Grant Cuts Aren't Saving Money. They're Wasting It.
The Trump administration says the canceled funding is about cost efficiency, but data shows that the opposite is happening.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/04/2025
@catgyoung.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...
The director of the National Science Foundation has announced his resignation amid plans to slash the agency’s budget by 55%, eliminating half the staff, and canceling over $1 billion in scientific grants.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/04/2025
@catgyoung.bsky.social www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Happy #InternationalWomensDay to all the incredible women who are juggling it all and making our world a better place.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Love this. Also a reminder that there is currently only one science PhD in Congress in case someone is interested in a career pivot 😬 www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Democrats launch effort to get 100 doctors into elected office
The campaign comes after all four Senate GOP physicians voted to confirm RFK Jr. as the nation’s health secretary.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
HHS just scrapped a 54-year-old policy requiring public input on regulations for grants, benefits, and contracts. This guts transparency and shuts out stakeholders from key health policy decisions - completely contradicting any claim of radical transparency. statnews.com/2025/02/28/rfk…
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
When fiction becomes reality.
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I’m becoming increasingly concerned about how some members of the public are so blatantly against science. Like vehemently against it. I want to fight the good fight on X but decided to retreat here for a moment of reprieve 😅. Please say hi if you’re able. Or drop a dog pic.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Rubio claims that @USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 18/01/2025
Seen on the DC metro, “I will no longer accept the things I cannot change.  I will change the things I cannot accept.” Angela Davis
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
ICYMI: On Jan 1st - adults on Medicare will spend no more than $2,000/year on prescription drugs when a new price cap on out-of-pocket payments from the Inflation Reduction Act goes into effect - which is expected to provide major relief for cancer patients #BidenCancerMoonshot
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 20/12/2024
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 07/12/2024
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I’m pretty sure this is exactly how it goes down 😂
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Catharine Young @catgyoung.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.” - Carl Sagan The origin story of every scientist.
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