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Dr. Theresa Chapple

@drtheresachapple.bsky.social
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Epidemiologist, Public Health Practitioner, Perinatal Health Researcher, Social Justice Advocate, Policy Nerd, and Mother of Four

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
"The cost of doing business"- CDC Deputy Director on the likelihood that the US will lose our measles elimination status. Unfortunately, the CDC is no longer interested in doing public health work and is now interested in the cost of doing business. In case you didn't know, the cost is lives lost.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
I'm confused. From PHWINS data we know that the mass majority of people drawn to public health come to the field because of our ties to social justice. Yet, our schools are canceling their social justice and health equity certifications. Students, come to Pitt! We still have our certificates.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Remember this administration wants us to have more babies? So of course they canceled millions in grant funding to American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), impacting programming on SIDS, birth defects, autism, and much more.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
I'm reading a student's final on maternal health outcomes in Mississippi, and I really want to put up billboards across the state telling people that they don't have to live like that. Move to a blue state. Get access to health & social services your state is depriving you of so you can live.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
We have a 3-tiered public health system with built in redundancy, because if one tier fails (in this case, the federal level), the other two can step in to protect the health of our people. Good job state and local health departments for stepping in to keep people healthy.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
Trump when Charlie Kirk died- "dark moment" and ordered flags flown half stance Trump when college kids die during finals week- "Things can happen"
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
So proud of the first student from U Pitt's MCH Center of Excellence to be profiled in MCH Leads. Learn more about the interdisciplinary nature of Maternal and Child Health and opportunities you can tap into at U Pitt's MCH CoE. Send students my way. We're recruiting our second class.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
Prevent preventable diseases #HepB
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Today's ACIP meeting was hard to watch. Watching facts ignored or twisted, and witnessing protections stripped away from unborn babies. This will cost the nation greatly. #HepB
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
I can't believe I'm about to say this but- do not look to the CDC for public health advice. CDC employees consider joining state public health agencies, collaborations, and consortiums. Don't let RFK ruin your credibility. You worked too hard to have your career linked to his ideology.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The Feds want us concerned about Nigeria attacking Christianity, while the Feds are telling protestors that they can't pray outside of ICE detention centers. blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/07/f....
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Feds Tell Faith Leaders 'No More Prayer' Outside Broadview Facility
In a possible violation of the First Amendment, federal officials instructed demonstrators to stop holding religious gatherings outside the immigration processing facility in suburban Broadview after ...
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
I normally look forward to the talk I give students about maternal mortality. I teach them the importance of counting correctly, and exactly what to count. I teach them about the Fed's commitment to reducing MM. Well today I get to tell them about all who have been fired, deemed fraud/waste by HHS.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
My son gets hand-me-down clothing from Trustee Brian Straw and his wife. The very same elected official that was indicted by the Feds for protesting. He was one of five elected people or candidates to be indicted yesterday. The Feds going after local officials. We must save our democracy
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
During circle time today, my daughter's class processed seeing a man get detained by ICE outside of their school. Last week ICE pulled guns outside of my 7 y.o school. Today, it was outside of my 10 y.o's school. Repubs want us to fear adults in drag around kids, I'm afraid of ICE agents in masks.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Trumps policies will limit the number of foreign-born doctors coming to our country, while also limiting the number of American born people who can afford to go to med school, and limiting the amount of money med schools can make by cutting research dollars and limiting international students. MAHA?
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In 2012, my mom retired from being an early childcare teacher finally earning her goal salary, $25k. I remember my college costing $2,000 more a year than her annual salary. Trump's administration has taken away every single program I used to get out of poverty. www.uclawsf.edu/admissions/f...
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Important Federal Student Loan Changes Effective July 1, 2026 - UC Law San Francisco (Formerly UC Hastings)
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
The federal gov wants people to have more babies- but fired the entire Healthy Start team. Their job was to ensure Americans have healthy pregnancies and infants have a healthy start to life. Their work is needed considering we rank 33rd out of 38 among high-income countries for infant mortality
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
I'm teaching today about our role in ensuring an effective and responsive public health system, and I'm overwhelmed because the system we worked so hard to build no longer exists. It's been decimated by this administration and our citizenry doesn't know what that means.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My neighbor, an American citizen, was detained by ICE yesterday. Guns in his face as he listened to their threats to break his car windows to pull him out. I watched the video. I heard the person recording it hyperventilate.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
My house is shaking as ICE helicopters hover above our heads. Chicago is under siege. Helps us fight back. Tell Congress to stop mass deportations.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Parents have kept their children home from school because of ICE's chemical warfare. Residents complain of issues breathing and eyes burning from being outside for seconds, making it impossible to do simple tasks like collect their mail. Help us. Call congress 202-224-3121. Demand they stop ICE.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
From Sept 1- Sept 20, ICE used over $100,000 of your tax $$ to bombard my community with chemical munitions. The pepper spray & tear gas lingers & spreads up to 1000 yards, making it where people can't open their window or go outside. Tell congress to rein in ICE. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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ICE is hounding Chicago area locals with excessive chemical munitions
Agents are firing tear gas and pepper balls on lawful protesters, lawsuits say, sickening even uninvolved residents.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
After 4 tries, my children still do not have their COVID vaccines. This search for vaccines... it's starting to feel like 2021 all over again. In the richest country in the world, it shouldn't be this hard to get vaccinated.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Just in case you thought we were finish with measles because you haven't heard about it in a while, I'm just here to remind you that measles case continuing to rise. There are 1514 confirmed cases for 2025 so far. This is about 5.5 times more than the cases in 2024, and 26 times more than 2023.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I like to use my social media to help break down complex medical studies to help people better understand the science and subsequent recommendations, but today I will just say, if the person sharing a medical recommendation with you can't pronounce the words, DON"T TRUST THEIR INFORMATION!
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
I'm old enough to remember when RFK said people shouldn't take medical advice from him. Watching him stand beside the President who struggled to even pronounce acetaminophen while giving medical advice to women, all I could hope was that people remembered NOT to take medical advice from them.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Since 1994 childhood vaccines have prevented: 508M cases of illnesses 32M hospitalizations 1.3M deaths Every $1 spent on childhood vaccines, the US has saved $10.90, totaling $2.7 trillion in societal savings. Yet, tomorrow ACIP will consider changing the schedule based on no science or data.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
Please get as many vaccines as you can for you and your family before the ACIP meeting on Thursday.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
National public health conferences are what every burnt-out public health professional needs. It's healing in a way that can't be described and has never been measured.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
RFK is a liar and his lies will cause people their life.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
I'm concerned about the multi-state outbreak of vibrio vulnificus (flesh-eating bacteria) in the Gulf, with 60+ cases across 5 states, & 10+ deaths. On my travels along the gulf states, I didn't see any additional information on how to stay safe. I wonder how CDC cuts have impacted this response.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
Florida has seen a major decline in school enrollment resulting from the immigration crackdown there. Now school districts are faced with multimillion dollar cuts. I wonder if the people who voted for this knew their vote would cost American teachers and school staff their jobs.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
"Guns killed more children than any other cause- more than cancer, more than car crashes- for 3 years in a row."- Washington Post 434 school shootings since the Columbine massacre, and our country still refuses to do what's needed to keep our children safe. Yet we keep sending our kids to school
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Public transportation as a social determinant of health- I'm heartbroken by the public transport (SEPTA) service cuts impacting the neighborhood I grew up in. It is still an improvised area in West Philly, but now, people don't have the same opportunities to get out as I did.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Make America Healthy Again by stopping medical research that prepares us to fight rapidly evolving respiratory viruses... odd take. No actually, it's a deadly take.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
It's clear the harm this administration is doing to Brown people, but harder to see what it's doing to Black women. The job loss, the sidelining of our research and careers... It's all just too much, and I'm wondering if you notice. www.msnbc.com/know-your-va...
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300,000 Black women have left the labor force in 3 months. It’s not a coincidence.
For decades, the public sector has been a lifeline for Black women shut out of economic opportunity. It’s no surprise that Trump's federal downsizing targeted them first, explains gender economist Kat...
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
First federal, now state programs designed to make pregnancy and birth safer are being cut. Tracking of adverse MCH outcomes have been halted or cut both federally and in some states. Yet the feds propose to pay people to have more children. This feels like a trap. Maybe even a death trap.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Is the MAGA plan to relegate women to SAHM roles, and eliminate all pathways out of poverty so we have only a worker and elite class? Every pathway I used to get out of poverty has been cut or completely eliminated. I'm left wondering am I the success story this country no longer wants.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
This country is becoming more and more callous by every vote and every SCOTUS decision. We no longer spend less than 1% of our GDP to support countries in need. We're making it even harder for poor people to get governmental support. America doesn't deserve a birthday party this year.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
My email to my Representatives Hungry people get desperate. Desperate people commit crimes. If you don't want to be responsible for increasing crime rates, fund SNAP. Sick people can't work and don't shop. If you want a thriving economy, fund Medicaid.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
"Cruelty isn't just the point, it's the priority"- Jen Psaki on the Medicaid cuts
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Rural hospitals will close and I can't even begin to predict the number of people who will lose their jobs if this bill passes tonight.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My 22 y.o. niece just called. And if you know 22 y.o.'s they don't just call their aunts. me- what's up her- nothing much me- sure, what's up her- The protest on Sat... I'm thinking to tie first aid kits to polls in downtown Philly just in case me- Say less! Get saline solution too. Sending $ soon
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Why should you be concerned about what RFK is doing to ACIP (the committee that reviews vaccines, sets recommendations and vaxx schedules)? Covered by private health insurance, Medicaid or Medicare Part D? Your vaxx coverage is tied to ACIP recs. If the recs change, so will insurer obligations.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I wonder what sticker Trump is gonna put on his new Tesla, "I bought this before Elon turned on me"?
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Joni saying "we all are going to die" has caused me sleepless nights. Not because of what she said, but because of what she didn't. She didn't say that policies dictate who will die prematurely. Nor did she tell you that she supports such policies. So here I am, telling you what she forgot to say.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
As the administration continues to do their thing of creating a policy with no thoughts of an implementation plan, I find myself thinking more about pregnancy loss. In none of their pushes to Make Americans Reproduce Again have they addressed our lack of infrastructure support for pregnancy loss.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Dear fellow scientists, it's okay to take your talents elsewhere. It's also okay to stay here and fight. Whatever you choose is the right decision. www.msn.com/en-us/news/u...
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Liberal Resistance @liberalresistance.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Today is the last day to leave a public comment in support of keeping the Covid vaccine. www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001/
Image says:
Support Covid Vaccines.

Today, May 23rd, 2025
is the last day to leave a public comment in support of keeping the Covid vaccine.

Under the text is an illustration of a vaccine being inserted into an arm.

Link below that:
www.regulations.gov/document/FDA-2025-N-1146-0001/

Bottom of the image says:
@liberalresistance.bsky.social
and the resistance symbol is in the bottom right.
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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
A must listen
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