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Elise Holmes

@ejholmes.bsky.social
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CIDRAP Research Manager and Podcast Producer 🧪🎙️ Infectious Diseases 🦠💊 | Maternal and Child Health 🤰🏼👶 | Public Health Policy 🛟 🏛️

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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Infectious Diseases 🤝 Maternal-Child Health
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 25/01/2026
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
#IDSky Every brutal murder is a tragedy. For those who need to a connecting human thread to the incident, this person helped move the needle on critical C. diff research. Do not look away or become numb to the brutality still occurring in our streets and country. It affects ALL of us.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I'm forever grateful to my former colleagues at the Minnesota Department of Health and Hennepin County. Every challenge, from needs assessments to COVID hotlines, helped shape who I am as a public health professional. Onward, friends. Public health’s story isn’t over yet.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📜History matters.Progress is rarely linear, harm lingers, recovery takes time, and ordinary people still shape what comes next.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
📊Evidence still anchors the work. Careful review, clear systems, and translating data into action matter more than ever when misinformation is loud.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🛟Public health is never just one crisis. COVID, measles, AMR, or funding cuts never stop the day-to-day work that keeps communities safe.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🎙️Honored to be behind the mic, not just behind the scenes, for the 200th episode. Thanks to @mtosterholm.bsky.social, @cvdall.bsky.social , for having me and fellow co-producer @sydneyredepenning.bsky.social on as guests. Here are a few highlights (besides the Chicago accent sneaking through 🌭):
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Broader isn't always better! #WAAW
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
This report goes out to anyone who ever had family member suggest you "just grab a z-pack" when you're feeling sniffly. Antibiotic stewardship is everyday life 💊🦠
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
If you want to make informed decisions on vaccines for yourself, your family, or your patients, tune in tomorrow to hear from an incredible team of experts working tirelessly to review the scientific evidence on influenza, RSV, and COVID.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
Thanks for reposting this article, Sarah. It hit home as someone who has lived through some of this burnout and fear. It's something I still carry with me and important to recognize so we can protect this next generation of public servants 💙
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
With the pall of political violence looming heavy here in Minnesota, I was reminded of this piece I was invited to write for @jamanetworkopen.com in 2022 on threats to the public health workforce and elected officials. This call to action is even more urgent today. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Supporting the Public Health Workforce
Elsewhere in JAMA Network Open, Topazian and colleagues1 report the striking finding that more than 1 in 5 US adults believe that harassing or threatening public health officials because of business c...
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Stock photo producers, I’m begging you — please put gloves on these scientists in the lab. 🧤🧪 Sincerely, Someone just trying to use basic photos in reports and web pages.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Reflecting on an unforgettable discussion that will stay with me throughout my public health career. It was an honor to hear about Dr. Fauci's remarkable legacy at NIH/NIAID and the vital role institutions like these play in advancing global health. Public health is a cause worth fighting for.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Innovation coming out of Minnesota - Laser Loons!
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BREAKING NEWS: MMCD Introduces “Laser Loons” for Mosquito Management
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CIDRAP-ASP @cidrap-asp.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
❄️Here in Minneapolis, we're digging out from our biggest snowstorm of the season!❄️ It's the perfect time to catch up on Superbugs and You, our podcast series that explores how antimicrobial resistance has shaped the lives of patients, clinicians, and researchers www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobia...
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Superbugs & You
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
The most extraordinary thing about James Harrison, who donated his rare plasma every 2 weeks for over 60 years and saved the lives of an estimated 2.4 million babies, is that he had to overcome a FEAR OF NEEDLES. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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James Harrison, whose rare blood helped save millions of babies, dies at 88
By donating blood over 1,100 times, James Harrison helped develop Anti-D, a life-saving treatment for newborns at risk of Rhesus disease
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
From Roald Dahl about his 7 year-old daughter who contracted measles
Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything.

“Are you feeling all right?” I asked her.

“I feel all sleepy,” she said.

In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead.

The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her.

On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 27/02/2025
I take care of children who DIE of conditions that we can’t prevent and that despite our very best efforts we cannot cure. The fact that CHILDREN DIE of diseases that can be completely eradicated with safe and effective vaccines makes me LIVID.
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
The abrupt terminations of more than 1,000 employees, including new Epidemic Intelligence Officers, across CDC are deeply disturbing. For more than 70 years, EIS officers have served on America’s front line as its disease detectives, ready at a moment’s notice to respond to emerging outbreaks.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Calling all science nerds 🧪 What's your favorite "weird" study that has resulted in tangible benefits to society and human health? I'm always excited by a new bioprospecting study from an #AMR standpoint (see Komodo Dragons) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28164707/
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Discovery of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides from Varanus komodoensis (Komodo Dragon) by Large-Scale Analyses and De-Novo-Assisted Sequencing Using Electron-Transfer Dissociation Mass Spectrometry - PubM...
Komodo dragons are the largest living lizards and are the apex predators in their environs. They endure numerous strains of pathogenic bacteria in their saliva and recover from wounds inflicted by oth...
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 09/02/2025
Our whole country is being dismantled but cinnamon toast still exists and is unreasonably delicious and I’m going to take that as a win.
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Chris Dall @cvdall.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
If you're an infectious disease researcher and have been impacted by the pause on NIH study sections, please send me a DM or email me at cdall@umn.edu
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Thanks for putting this together! More @cidrap.bsky.social staff are on their way to Blue Sky!
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Continuity of funding is key to keeping your laboratory running and your colleagues paid. Even just missing one cycle can throw that into complete chaos. And here we are. No February cycle, minimally. Many people will be out of a job just because of this.
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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 23/01/2025
California and Massachusetts are teaching immigrants their rights while Florida and Texas are collecting patients’ immigration status. As states offer differing guidelines for interacting with immigrant patients, hospitals around the U.S. say they won’t turn people away. bit.ly/4h9Cjkm
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As States Diverge on Immigration, Hospitals Say They Won’t Turn Patients Away - KFF Health News
California and Massachusetts are teaching immigrants their rights while Florida and Texas are collecting patients’ immigration status. As states offer differing guidelines for interacting with immigra...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
A reminder to The Billionaires: in the world of science, rampant, unchecked cellular growth and proliferation is called cancer. It seems to me that this also applies to your insatiable need for more profits.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
This RSV vaccine and GBS conversation is really throwing me off as someone who spends most of their time in MCH ID #GroupBStrep
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Shrieked from excitement when @michaelhobbes.bsky.social gave a shout-out to the threat of antibiotic resistance on the latest episode of @ifbookspod.bsky.social . Hit me up if you want more content for any and all podcasts related to #AMR
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a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it
Alt: a little boy wearing a hat that says respect on it
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Absolutely devastating, and important, reporting on the impact of measles.
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Tiny Coffins: Measles Is Killing Thousands of Children in Congo
Problems with getting vaccines to families have left many children unvaccinated and in danger of contracting the virus.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Also, what if I told you infectious diseases can be chronic... 🤯
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
A huge slap in the face to those in public health who have been working tirelessly on chronic disease issues for decades 🛟
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Incredibly grateful to be working at my dream job and supported to do a PhD at the same time - not to mention amazing coworkers like @sydneyredepenning.bsky.social Looking forward to what this grant opportunity will add to my research.
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UMN’s CIDRAP announces three-year grant from Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund
The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota announced on Dec. 2 that it received a three-year grant from the Albert Victor Ravenholt Fund....
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Periodic reminder that the senate finance committee will review the HHS nominee. Are you a constituent of one of these senators? www.finance.senate.gov/about/member...
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Membership | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Membership
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Please join me in welcoming CIDRAP's Chronic Wasting Disease Project to Bluesky! #IDSky #Prions #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalHealth #EpiSky
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
📣💊 Attention Pharmacists, Physicians, and Nurses! It's not too late to celebrate #WAAW with free, on-demand CE from our @cidrap.bsky.social Antimicrobial Stewardship Project. Three webinars available now through January with some amazing guest speakers #MedSky #IDSky #PharmSky tinyurl.com/4c7wcbs2
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Webinars
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Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) @msf.ca · 21/11/2024
Antimicrobial resistance #AMR is a global health crisis, causing millions of deaths, especially in low-income countries. We see the impact daily in areas with limited diagnostics and treatments. #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #MedSky Learn More: msf-access.medium.com/bridging-the...
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Bridging the access gap to microbiology diagnostics is a critical part of the global response to…
Dr Jane Cunningham is a Diagnostics Advisor with Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)’s Access Campaign. In this blog she takes a closer look at…
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
RFK doesn't have to "ban" vaccines to cause immense harm in the US and the world. As a both a public health professional and mom of a toddler, I'm deeply concerned. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
💊🧪World AMR Awareness Week is the perfect time to catch up on podcasts! Did you know CIDRAP has a podcast entirely devoted to AMR and sharing the perspectives of patients, clinicians, and researchers? Four seasons of Superbugs & You available anywhere you get your podcasts #IDSky #EpiSky
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Superbugs & You
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
New episode last Thursday plus another this week! Ready to get the work done and the word out about the best science we have in these frustrating times + a touch of humanity. #IDSky #EpiSky #PublicHealth #Vaccines #Misinformation
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Elise Holmes @ejholmes.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Made it to bluer skies! Get ready for lots of public health history, chipping away at a PhD, and occasional baking commentary
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