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Mark Brender

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Global health equity, fundraising, writing, PIH, old man hoops. Go Raps.

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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Vile. www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
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Israel’s Minister of National Security advocates killing ‘30 to 40′ people in Gaza nightly while speaking to ex-hostage
After operating for decades within Israel’s far-right fringe, Itamar Ben-Gvir is now one of the most influential people in the country
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Tania J. Spencer @taniaspencer.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"The idea that some lives matter less than others is the root of all that’s wrong with the world" - Paul Farmer, co-founder of Partners In Health Canada @mbrender.bsky.social @pihcanada.org open.substack.com/pub/ryanmeil...
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Is Give and Take Really How We Want to Approach Ebola?
Re-examining mutual benefit in the context of humanitarian crises
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 11/06/2026
“Irv’s ongoing generosity and Dianne’s legacy will positively affect thousands of lives over the next five years,” said Mark Brender, National Director of Partners In Health Canada. Read more: edmontonjournal.com/news/local-n...
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Edmonton charity sets record with $10-million gift for global health
The foundation’s $5-million gift more than doubles their overall donation to the global health organization.
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Back in it. 🇨🇦
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 17/01/2026
What does innovation mean when resources are limited and the stakes are high? Join us with Medical Innovation & Global Health Association for a practical conversation on TB care, ethics, and real-world constraints. 🗓 Jan 30 | 💻 Zoom 🔗 Register: pih.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
A beautiful song from Alex Krawczyk on World AIDS Day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sE_...
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I am a Song ✨💕 - Alex Krawczyk
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 22/10/2025
When aid is cut, lives are cut short. U.S. aid cuts are gutting global health programs. Now the question is: will Canada lead, or stay silent? Read @mbrender.bsky.social’s reflection: pihcanada.org/news/canadas-role-in-… #GlobalHealth #HealthEquity #ForeignAid #PIHCanada
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Results Canada @resultscanada.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
On Sept 25th, advocates and experts from across Canada and the world took on Parliament Hill to urge Canada to #LeadOnTB ❗️ resultscanada.ca/advocates-to...
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Wow. #Mboko. 🎾🇨🇦
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Vidya Krishnan @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I know all of global health is collapsing rn but *this* 👇🏾 after 3yrs of negotiations.. is infuriating. Refusing to transfer tech (given all meds, diagnostics, vaccines) are "tech" is exactly why rich countries had freezers filled w. vaccines (lookin at you, Canada) as ppl in Asia & Africa died.
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 14/04/2025
“We know all too well where the Trump admin stands. Now it’s our values being tested.” — @mbrender.bsky.social, PIH Canada As the U.S. retreats, Canada must step up. Official Development Assistance (ODA) isn’t charity—it’s responsibility. 📖 Read more: bit.ly/4cq5spI #GlobalHealth #ODA
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 07/04/2025
🏁 Today, we kick off #GlobalHealthJusticeWeek by listening to our patients and their stories. Lerato’s story isn’t just moving. It’s a call to action. Because solidarity means showing up, join us and complete small daily challenges: pihcanada.org/global-healt... #PIHCanada #HealthForAll
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Call for Nominations: The 2025 Paul Farmer Lectureship and Award for Global Health Equity www.mcgill.ca/spgh/about-u...
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Devastating for the health of women and families around the world. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Trump Aid Cuts End Contraception Access for Millions of Women
The United States was a key supplier of contraceptives in many developing countries. The Trump administration has ended that support.
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Big yes to this.
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 24/03/2025
“We have a clear idea of how political health actually is. Not all battles are fought for victory, some battles are fought so that it shows not everyone agrees with what’s being done. This is a fight and it’s time to march in.” @vidyakrishnan.bsky.social #WorldTBday
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Calling all global health peeps in Hamilton ON...check this out and join us!
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 19/03/2025
❌ Myth: Tuberculosis is an ancient disease. 🚩 Fact: It should be, but it isn't. Join us for #WorldTBDay: pihcanada.org/world-tb-day... @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social @mariasmilios.bsky.social @tbppm.bsky.social @madhupai.bsky.social
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit.

Companies like CoreCivic and GEO Group receive government funding based on the number of people they detain, which is why they lobby for stricter immigration policies. It’s a lucrative business: CoreCivic made over $560m from Ice contracts in a single year. In 2024, GEO Group made more than $763m from Ice contracts.

The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly. What I had experienced was finally starting to make sense.
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 18/03/2025
This is not a time to mince words, and it's not a time for inaction. Health care access should not be controversial, nor should it be a political pawn. #foreignaidfreeze Stay informed. Spread the word. Donate. Pihcanada.org/crisis
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Amidst all the chaos fostered by the U.S. administration, nothing is costing more lives than cuts to international assistance. Reforms to aid architecture are of course long overdue, but right now we need to act in solidarity with communities in need.
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Standing Together @standing-together.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
The only way to stop them and their war is for every one of us to refuse. This war is Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir’s war of choice, and it’s time to refuse to take part in it. It’s time to refuse to die in Netanyahu’s war. (1/5)
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
One of the best author interviews you'll ever hear. "That voice (of despair) is very loud in my head, it always has been. And yet I also think that voice is lying." @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social in conversation with @mattgalloway.bsky.social on his new book 'Everything Is Tuberculosis'.
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Canada's $675M investment in Gavi means we won't be retreating. Millions of lives saved. Vaccines work. #AidWorks. "This is truly an unprecedented time and I think Canada should be very proud of what you've done this morning....I want to thank the people of Canada." - Gavi CEO Dr. Sania Nishtar
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 05/03/2025
President Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the U.S. at “levels never seen before.” However, U.S. Customs data shows almost none of the fentanyl intercepted at American borders comes from Canada.
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Virtually no fentanyl in the U.S. comes from Canada
Trump says Canada and Mexico are allowing fentanyl to come into the United States at “levels never seen before.” However, almost none of the fentanyl
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 21/02/2025
Have you explored our ✨ 2024 Annual Report ✨ yet? 📖 Discover how we're advancing global health equity and making quality care accessible to all. Read the full report here: buff.ly/3EOjEw5 #HealthForAll #SocialJustice
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Ben Wikler @benwikler.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
www.statnews.com/2025/03/01/p... "We report that eliminating PEPFAR would lead to 601,000 HIV-related deaths and 565,000 new HIV infections in South Africa alone over 10 years. These are the projections for just one country." Across 55 countries, >20 million people get HIV treatment via PEPFAR.
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We tried to quantify the impact of abrupt PEPFAR cuts. The results startled even us
A peer reviewer questioned the premise of our study into the potential impact of abruptly ending PEPFAR funding. Then it happened.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.
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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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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Sign of the times, all true.
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
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Ben Phillips @benphillips76.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
So many great lines from Paul Farmer shared by his friends in this inspirational piece, but this one is my favourite: “Paul would often quip, ‘History does not begin when you show up.”
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 20/02/2025
“We are seeing pathologies of power play out on a global stage, and the consequences are devastating,” said @mbrender.bsky.social, national director of PIH Canada. "In this crisis, we know which team Paul would be on. He’s still with us, and we’ve got to fight," he said.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
“We’re cutting off our hand to spite our face" www.nytimes.com/2025/02/18/u...
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Trump Cuts Target Next Generation of Scientists and Public Health Leaders (Gift Article)
A core group of so-called disease detectives, who track outbreaks, was apparently spared. But other young researchers are out of jobs.
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Carole Mitnick @cdmitpih.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
The gutting of USAID is unadulterated murder.
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John Green @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
This is not normal, or natural, or inevitable. youtu.be/ZfBkw0j-QIs?...
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This Is Not Normal
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 27/01/2025
🌍 Join our webinar this International Development Week to celebrate 6 years of the No Woman or Girl Left Behind project and reflect on health system transformation in Malawi & Sierra Leone. 📢 Register: buff.ly/3PWMGvy #IDW2025 @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @canadadev.bsky.social
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Mark Brender @mbrender.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Absolutely we should be outraged by the cavalier disregard for human lives implicit in the aid freeze south of the border. Let's not also be blinded, though, to our ongoing lack of solidarity in ignoring structural reforms global south countries have been rightfully demanding for decades. More 👇.
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Paul Belcher FRCP HonMFPH 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
“ #GlobalHealth emergency” - Nurses flee Global South to work in high-income countries “WHO estimates that, by 2030, there will be a shortage of 4.5 million #nurses & 310,000 #midwives worldwide. The countries most in need are in Africa & Southeast Asia.” english.elpais.com/health/2024-...
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Nurses flee Global South to work in healthcare systems of high-income countries
Following the pandemic, the surge in demand for health professionals has further weakened the already fragile systems of African countries. Experts are calling the situation a ‘global health emergency...
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 25/12/2024
Your partnership makes it possible to save lives, deliver hope, and advance health care worldwide. Together, we’re unstoppable! 🌍🧡 #HappyHolidays from all of us at PIH Canada! ✨ #HealthCareForAll #GlobalHealth
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Adam R Houston @healthlawadamh.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
ICYI My op-ed w/ @jwnickerson.bsky.social for @msf.ca in @mtlgazette.bsky.social on useful things Canada could do with the Biologics Manufacturing Centre, a publicly-owned pharmaceutical manufacturing facility that cost $126+million to build & $17+million/yr to run but has yet to make...anything.
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Opinion: Let's put Montreal's idle pharmaceutical plant to good use
For a fraction of the amount already spent on a factory that produces nothing, Canada could use the BMC facility to help fill a crucial gap.
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 27/11/2024
TRIPLE your impact until December 3! Bring hope and health to those who need it most. A matched donation today means more medicines, health supplies, and support for impoverished communities. Donate Now this #GivingTuesday: pihcanada.org/donate_today
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 29/11/2024
PIH Canada National Director @mbrender.bsky.social recently visited the Dambe Health Centre Malawi, where your generosity is making a profound impact. To unlock our triple match, donate here: pihcanada.org/donate_today
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 18/11/2024
"Health care shouldn’t be determined by where you live, income, or gender. It’s a human right that requires each of us to work in partnership to make it real." #Reflections from our National Director @mbrender.bsky.social on progress, resilience, and the road ahead: buff.ly/3UWJqn9
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Partners In Health Canada 🇨🇦 @pihcanada.org · 12/11/2024
This weekend, Partners In Health Canada hosted an end-of-year celebratory fundraiser, where we got inspired by PIHC board members Dr. Adrienne Chan and Dr. @ryanmeili.bsky.social , along with PIH Chief Medical Officer Dr. Joia Mukherjee and PIHC National Director @mbrender.bsky.social
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