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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH

@fairleyinfectious.bsky.social
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ID doctor mom and researcher; passionate about #NTDs, especially #leprosy, climate change, and neglected populations. Professor at Emory, opinions are my own. #Medsky #IDsky

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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. “Have you ever had contact with an armadillo?”
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
We lost a beloved a beloved ID colleague & friend unexpectedly this week. Dr. Lauren Collins' legacy and the many lives she touched will live on. A compassionate physician who was leader in the fight to end HIV locally and nationally. #IDSky gradyhealthfoundation.donorsupport.co/page/laurenc...
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Dr. Lauren Collins Memorial Fund
This fund was created by Dr. Collins' family in her honor. The fund is dedicated to continue efforts at the Grady Ponce De Leon Center to end the HIV Epidemic through person-centered, interprofessiona...
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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 @helenbranswell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
1. #CDC posted new #flu data today. A 🧵 Another pediatric death was reported in the 2024-25 flu season, making it the deadliest flu season for kids since CDC started collecting this data point 20 years ago. 2024-25 has surpassed the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. 9 kids have died from flu so far this year.
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Patrick Hickey, MD @pwhickey.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
For my Pediatrics and Family Medicine colleagues- As someone who did a stint as both ward attending and ID consult attending over Christmas, I was struck by the number of infants, children, and teens that I cared for with severe influenza and complicated pneumonias. Most not vaccinated vs Flu.
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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 14/11/2025
Visiting the Jamaraquá community in the Amazon River Basin was a once-in-a-lifetime chance to learn about local climate solutions and the sustainable economic practices happening here. Proud to stand with Indigenous leaders in working to help California drive real solutions to the climate crisis.
Governor Newsom visits the Jamaraquá community in the Amazon River Basin to learn about the local climate solutions and conservation practices the community is using.Governor Newsom visits the Jamaraquá community in the Amazon River Basin to learn about the local climate solutions and conservation practices the community is using.Governor Newsom visits the Jamaraquá community in the Amazon River Basin to learn about the local climate solutions and conservation practices the community is using.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Do you want to learn more about domestic Hansens’s disease (leprosy), an emerging infectious disease in the southern US? Stop by our poster today at #IDWeek2025! #IDsky
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
#IDweek25 peeps- Come check out one of the only posters on leprosy! P184. I’ll be there in today’s poster session. Preliminary results on a 3 year cohort on risk factors for leprosy. #IDweek
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Maryn McKenna @marynmck.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Boston, ilu
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Blue Georgia @bluegeorgia.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Atlanta No Kings rally.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Heartened by the showing in suburban Atlanta, while sporting my DEI shirt (again) and showing my 9-year old how it’s done! #NoKings
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 10/08/2025
This was an attack on a federal institution. An attack BECAUSE it is Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This was domestic terrorism. Why isn’t it getting more press coverage? Some coverage, not enough. Domestic. Terrorism.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Not enough media attention. This was so unbelievably scary. The fact that more people were not killed is really incredible. I drive through that intersection multiple times a week. There’s always cars and pedestrians especially around 5. And this photo is terrifying.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Big crowd earlier today in the home of MLK, CDC, and John Lewis. #Handsoff Atlanta, @indivisible.org @meiselasb.bsky.social
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
99.4% of new drugs approved by the FDA are the product of NIH funded research. Remember this every time you see another headline on the NIH funding cuts. It will directly impact YOU. #ScienceNOTSilence
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David Katz @katzlab.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Stand up for science! Atlanta is standing up! #standupforscience2025
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Atlanta @standupforscience.bsky.social #standupforscience
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Come on down to the Georgia state capital and stand up for science!!
Picture of me with a sign saying “science kept you alive - now you’re killing it” with fellow protestors and Georgia state capital building behind me.
Me with a sign that says “trust doctors not DOGe” state capital behind me.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 02/03/2025
MORE LOCATIONS BEING ADDED BY THE DAY! Want to plan a local event or be included on the map of events? Visit standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information for more information & to be added to the map!
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Local SUFS Events
Stand Up for Science is officially supporting rallies in Washington DC and 31 other cities around the country. This means that a confirmed site leader—backed by our core team—is actively organizing…
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
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Physicians for a Healthy Democracy @physiciandemocracy.medsky.social · 25/02/2025
Economic blackout February 28th spend no money support no traitors hit them where it hurts no Amazon No Walmart No Target
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
31 years ago today my father died from metastatic melanoma, leaving 5 kids ages 5-22. Today he would have likely been cured. 36 years ago my uncle died of AIDS. A few years later and he may be still alive. I’m older now than both of them were when they died. 1/2
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Defend Public Health @defendpublichealth.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Thank you to everyone who stands with USAID. Share far and wide. Unfortunately we don’t have $40 million to buy up ads during the Super Bowl. Even if we did, we’d use it to support the U.S. economy while feeding kids around the globe. #StandWithUSAID #SaveForeignAid m.youtube.com/watch?v=PqUE...
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Save Foreign Aid
YouTube video by friendsofUSAID
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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 08/02/2025
This is what amounts to an ILLEGAL & indiscriminate funding cut for research centers everywhere. It will mean shuttering labs across the country, layoffs in red & blue states, and derailing lifesaving research on everything from cancer to opioid addiction. We all need to speak out to save lives.
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Tim Clancy @viewfromarchstreet.com · 08/02/2025
On changes to #NIH indirect rates, there is a law in place that prohibits NIH from making such changes without the approval of Congress. See Division D, Title II Section 224 of The Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024 (Public Law No: 118-47) grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
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NOT-OD-24-110: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024
NIH Funding Opportunities and Notices in the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts: Notice of Legislative Mandates in Effect for FY 2024 NOT-OD-24-110. NIH
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Mia Farrow @miafarrow.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
USAID funded projects in 120 countries - fighting epidemics, educating children, providing clean water, supporting life saving work. Now nurses laid off, clinics closed in 25 countries where 2/3 of all child deaths occur
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The Nazis burned books they considered subversive. The #Trump administration is conducting a "digital book burning" according to researchers--destroying information from federal agencies on the web on topics they consider subversive but are essential for public health. www.npr.org/2025/02/05/n...
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Scientist calls the disappearance of federal health data a 'digital book burning'
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at Harvard University, about her efforts to preserve federal health data that recently disappeared from government websites.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 03/02/2025
Dear Democratic Leaders: here’s a free idea, send members of congress into the buildings where Elons people are and see what they’re doing. Dare them to stop you. Do something
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Where.are.our.Democratic. leaders …remember when John Lewis led a protest on the House floor for gun control? They should be sitting in and chaining themselves to the congressional floors. The inaction is deafening @schiff.senate.gov @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @aoc.bsky.social
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Loren DeJonge Schulman @lorenraeds.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
You say: they shutdown USAID. You mean: they illegally broke in to a secure facility over a weekend, hijacked sensitive data on vulnerable people and US businesses, destroyed property Americans paid for, cut off resources for sick and hungry families, and fired Americans across the country.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
It’s official: Elon Musk’s staffers have now illegally obtained classified information from the USAID office. Here’s a recap of what’s happening:
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Thanh Neville, MD, MSHS @thanh-neville.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
"To condone policies that the profession knows will compromise health—or to remain silent and look away—is to be complicit in putting population health at risk" To every university, every public hospital, every academic society: SILENCE IS NOT AN OPTION. #medsky
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How Should Health Care and Public Health Respond to the New US Administration?
This Viewpoint discusses scientific, medical, and public health actions, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, taken so far during the first week of the Trump administration.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Good morning. RFK Jr would be an absolute disaster for NIH. The HHS Secretary has enormous power over NIH. Enormous. He could effectively end the agency as a science funder. Please organize to stop RFK Jr. Students, you can help: use all the channels you have to get the word out.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Sen Chris Murphy (D-CT) just now: “You could literally walk down the street and the first 100 people you’d find would be less dangerous as the head of HHS than Robert F Kennedy Jr. He will get people killed”
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Please. please. Please. Contact your Senators about RFK Jr. Keep calling and get everyone you know to do the same.
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a group of people standing in a room with the words " all hands battle stations " on the bottom
ALT: a group of people standing in a room with the words " all hands battle stations " on the bottom
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Josh Barocas, MD ⭕️ @jabarocas.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Why should the public care about the freeze on the NIH? Aside from the need for scientific pursuits to make our society better… -For every dollar we invest in NIH research, there is a $2.5 return. -Research dollars help fund universities that employ non-academics. (1/)
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
#RFKJr is a menace to society. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/17/h...
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RFK Jr. Sought to Stop Covid Vaccinations 6 Months After Rollout (Gift Article)
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. petitioned the F.D.A. to revoke authorization of the shots at a time when they were in high demand and considered life-saving.
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Leprosy Review @leprosyreview.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
New in @leprosyreview.bsky.social (Vol 95/4) Challenges of delay in diagnosis and high disability rate among newly diagnosed leprosy patients in Karachi, Pakistan by Murtaza et al leprosyreview.org/article/95/4... #Leprosy #Disability #Epidemology #IDsky #Health #Research #GlobalHealth #Pakistan
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As someone whose family is affected by this devastating disease, this is exciting. Too late for my mom but may help a future afflicted member of my family.
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Walter Orenstein on miracles: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/mira... "I was 7 years old in 1955 when the Salk polio vaccine became available. I was a real anti-vaxxer, not wanting a shot for something I knew nothing about. My mother said to me, 'Better you should cry, than I should cry.'"
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The "Miracle" of the Polio Vaccine | Think Global Health
Polio expert Walter Orenstein speaks about the important legacy of the polio vaccine following efforts to undermine it
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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
@defendpublichealth.bsky.social is composed of some of the leading scientists, public health experts, clinicians and patient advocates in the US. Our press release, see first comment, gives you a sense of the breadth of expertise of our membership. All of us are opposed to the RFK Jr. nomination. 1/
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Paul Offit @pauloffit.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/13/o... “…Given the lack of appropriate guardrails that would normally prevent an anti-vaccine activist, science denialist and conspiracy theorist from heading the country’s most important public health agency, it’s a dangerous time to be a child in the United States.”
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Opinion | RFK Jr. Is a Vaccine Cynic, Not Skeptic. (Gift Article)
My job is to ask tough questions of vaccine makers. That’s not what he is doing.
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Dr. Annie Andrews @drannieandrews.com · 13/01/2025
If RFK Jr. is confirmed. @donttreadonkids.bsky.social
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
Honored to pay my respects to one of the biggest champions of the forgotten. President Carter’s commitment to eradicating Guinea worm and other #NTDs continues to inspire me. Moving experience, no wait here at the Carter Center. We will miss you! @cartercenter.bsky.social @emoryrollins.bsky.social
Me standing in front of the Carter Presidential Library with reflective pool. Sign reading The Carter Presidential Library with flowers and other momentos in front.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
The Dems who are allegedly open to confirming RFK Jr—a man who pushes grotesque, dangerous lies about HPV & Covid vaccines, & who says he’ll support Trump’s anti-abortion agenda—should be deeply ashamed of themselves
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Great article! Missing is Travel Medicine, both pre and post, which I would argue adds significant ID value to both institutions and patient care, especially in an ever increasingly connected world. And it’s fun! Trainees enjoy it and opens clinical, public health, and research doors. #IDsky
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Came across this quote today: “…mercy is no substitute for justice”, Sr Catherine Sullivan, nurse at the former leprosarium, Carville, LA, 1920s. I know the same sentiment has been expressed by many in history. A good reminder for global health, especially when “charity” does not advance justice.
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Rio Tazewell @riotazewell.bsky.social · 25/12/2024
‘Twas the night before Christmas And all through the land The people were wishing Things had gone to plan An election so horrid Can hardly believe A country so broken We see no reprieve Yet still we persisted To fight for what’s right This Christmas our wish list Is to lift up the light 💫
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