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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 · 17/09/2026
What is the “kid” age? 18 and up?
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I’ll pull out my halo for clinic tomorrow (HD patients on the docket)…
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
My husband’s pediatrician!
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
😆😬
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
I have about 8-10 on treatment at any given time. I also conduct studies where I ask this too.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
This is long standing, going back to when my siblings were born 35-40 years ago at least. My mom was in the home birth world. And even though our pediatrician made a house call and administered vitamin K to my siblings, there was a lot of skepticism about it in those circles.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
Thx, this strengthens my resolve in many of the same areas. When it gets hard career-wise, it reminds me to return to the needs of those I care for: my kids, my patients, and my mentees. I’m also reading Jane Goodall’s book “Hope”. It inspires us to Hope with action - this will be my 2026 mantra.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 19/10/2025
Suburban Atlanta (outside the perimeter) - not as liberal as the city, showing up, cars going crazy with honks of support…
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
🤣🤣 I wish I remembered the actual songs on my 2 recent planes. My kiddo was like, “I like this music”. All I kept thinking about was “I feel like I’m in Bridgerton”
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
I had the same thought on my Delta flight this morning.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
I’m an HD physician and I will stick with my clofazimine based WHO regimen until there is a published RCT of RMM. Not enough evidence and there appears to be growing evidence that it is associated w/ type 2 reactions, which has been my experience. Hyperpigmentation is not that bad at 50 mg.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
I too was very emotional. Within a week after my husband and I got our second shots (as physicians so January 2021) my nanny and my three kids got Covid. And my husband and I did not. Just amazing what hope they brought and disease / death they have prevented.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Ive heard if you try the actual cvs minute clinic it has worked in our neck of the words. Not the pharmacy.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
In 1995, I brought my college scavenger hunt team to victory by writing down the lyrics to your whole song! I spent hours playing / rewinding the tape (instead of studying) and boy was I still so wrong! But at least the judges had no idea either what the lyrics were…
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Woohoo! Well deserved Doctora
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Going to a conference in Toronto in November so going to see if I can get the updated Covid shot then.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
That is truly horrific.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Literally thought the same thing moments ago. I have most of both the pediatric and adult memorized anyways, but definitely need to save a copy.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
My then toddler was the most non-plussed about wearing a mask compared to my other kids and adults I knew. She would forget she had it on long after we were home, back in the car, etc… and she totally understood the assignment - protect ourselves and protect others.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Horrifying
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Agree! I was totally shocked in a good way.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
I hope you’re right
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
And if you want a shirt like mine buy it at Mahogany Mommies, a small Black woman- owned business that has amazing tshirts.
Me with shirt that reads DEI is not an initiative, It’s a responsibility.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Options… hubby has EU citizenship and kids eligible for that as well.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I also recently realized that I’m eligible through my dad, who passed away when we were young. My brother was the guinea pig and applied for citizenship about a year ago and he just got official word last month that it went through. Now the rest of us are applying.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Philanthropies and sensible billionaires need to step up and fund these students and researchers. Not to let NIH and the government off the hook but to at least bridge the gap.
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Several of my boomer aunts / uncles have gone from pretty conservative republican to progressive democrats. And my liberal mom has gone even further left. I’m about as progressive as I was 30 years ago, so stayed about the same. But not much farther left to go.
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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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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Costco for the win!
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Totally. A neighbor and friend of my daughter’s invited her to go feed / see some chickens in another neighbor’s backyard a few days ago. Hard pass, no thank you!
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Jessica Fairley, MD, MPH @fairleyinfectious.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
My mom, who is blind with a guide dog, has had Ubers just drive right by and cancel when they see her. Awful thing is that she doesn’t always know right away, although she can usually tell.
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