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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

Why? Well they say it's because AAP uses "birthing people" on their website. In reality it's because AAP is suing the administration over RFK's approach to vaccines. AAP is putting science over funding and I'm so proud of them.

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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

The mass firing of public health regulators by this administration.

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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 · 11/12/2025

Hope and expect are two different words with two different meanings. I can have hope without expectations.

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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 · 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 · 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 · 03/11/2025

Thank you for helping people find me on here!

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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 · 23/10/2025

Seems like so long ago when this was the biggest problem in our town. How I long for the days when our neighborhood social media pages were lamenting about leaves.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This dismantling of PH will lead to death, & we'll lack the data to prove it.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

The public never understood what public health did, so they don't understand the loss. The underreporting of who's been fired and what expertise we are losing feeds this lack of knowledge. The lack of knowledge = lack of pushback.

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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

Convince me that this is what they voted for. Better yet, convince them, no, make them stop. Make our government stop terrorizing its citizens.

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I read the email from my kid's school telling us the school is on lockdown due to guns drawn outside their doors. Knowing that the father of my child's best friend was detained as a result. When I picked up my kid she told me about the lockdown, eating lunch in class "kinda like COVID times mom"

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

I heard the fear in my neighbor's voice as he screamed his name so there's documentation of who was being detained. I saw my kid's school in the video frame, knowing inside there's 700 elementary age kids impacted by what's going on. I saw the agents get in my neighbor's car and drive his car off.

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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 · 08/10/2025

Getting turned away from CVS is what prompted this post. I was told "they are no longer sending COVID vaccines to this location" after we got there for our appointment.

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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 · 05/10/2025

It's awesome to have options during this time. Congrats!

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Dr. Theresa Chapple @drtheresachapple.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

41 states have reported a measles case this year

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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 fear that this is purposefully being suppressed as to not impact the end of the summer beach travel season.

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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

The first April in 20 years to have 0 school shootings was April 2020. It shouldn't take a global pandemic to keep our children safe from gun violence at school. Yet, that's the only policy approach that has worked in 25 years.

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