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George Rust

@georust.bsky.social

Primary Care clinician-teacher-scholar; public health specialist; health equity researcher; author.

George Rust @georust.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We talk about doing public health in Florida as a foreshadowing of RFK and the nation's dysfunction on the Johns Hopkins podcast podcast.publichealth.jhu.edu/1024-healing...

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Public Health On Call: 1024 - “Healing in a Changing America”—Starting with Florida

About this episode: From working in immigrant health care under the Reagan administration to tackling today’s measles outbreak in Florida, George Rust has decades of...

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George Rust @georust.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

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Healing in a Changing America

Doctoring in a Nation of Needless Suffering

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George Rust @georust.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

For the past five years, Florida's public health politics and leaders in many ways foreshadowed the cringe we are seeing at a national level. I'm grateful to Dr. Joshua Sharfstein and the team at Public Health On Call for focusing on public health in Florida at this moment in time.

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George Rust @georust.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This year I've seen two measles cases. I've helped manage whooping cough outbreaks. Seen infants hospitalized for pertussis. Ending vaccine mandates is dangerous for all our children. Can we please have some public health in our public health leadership? kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

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Doctors Muffled as Florida Moves To End Decades of Childhood Vaccination Mandates - KFF Health News

Florida has announced plans to end mandatory vaccination. Now scientists are assessing which of several diseases deadly to children — whooping cough, measles, polio, rubella, mumps, diphtheria, and te...

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George Rust @georust.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

An environmental lawyer with no clinical credentials and an anti-public health ideology is giving terrible advice to clinicians on how to treat measles and to public health officials on how to prevent it. Let's ignore RFK and amplify advice from actual experts.

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