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Michelle Tam

@michelletam.bsky.social
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Postdoc @hsph.harvard.edu & @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social | queer health, mental health, sexual and reproductive health, mixed-methods | she/her

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Michelle Tam @michelletam.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Congratulations to the team for such a phenomenal contribution!
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LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📣Abortion is an LGBTQ+ issue. In our latest research pub: LGB+ people are more likely to use abortion compared to their heterosexual peers. 📄@jama.com OPEN #episky #reprosky #medsky #LGBTQ #queersky #publichealth 🧵1/8
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Differences in Abortion Use by Sexual Orientation in 3 National Cohorts
This cohort study uses data from the Nurses' Health Study 2 and 3 and Growing Up Today Study to assess differences in use of abortion care by sexual orientation.
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
🧬 Key scientific leaders are being removed! 🧬 NIH directors—known for their expertise and institutional knowledge—are being ousted Result? ✅Undermines public health ✅Erodes scientific integrity ✅Risks unchecked actions A short 🧵 1/ #NIH #CDC #FDA #AcademicSky #MedSky #Science
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Yes. The situation at NIH is worse than the public realizes. The #NIH is on track to be effectively ended as a funder of evidence-based research within a year. That is not an exaggeration. The firings and consolidation announced today will create a new, MUCH worse NIH. 1/
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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
🚀 Big reveal! Introducing our interactive table on NIH grant terminations, supercharged from the original Google tracker! 📊👇 Help us uncover which NIH grants are tagged for termination and why! 🕵️🔍 1 / 🧵 #HealthEquity #MedSky #PublicHealth
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Ariel Beccia @albeccia.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
truly devastating degree of cuts to LGBTQ+ health research last week - grateful to @bostonglobe.com for covering this and the negative impacts it will have on queer communities here in Mass #episky #medsky
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‘It breaks my heart’: New wave of cuts to NIH research grants hit Mass. hard - The Boston Globe
Fenway Health lost five grants in one day.
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LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
How can you support our LGBTQ+ health equity research? 1. Pledging to donate (or learn more): hsph.me/lgbtq-give 2. Subscribe to our newsletter: signup.e2ma.net/signup/20012... 3. Follow us and share #SupportLGBTQ #HealthEquity
A graphic that says, make a pledge at hsph.me/lgbtq-give
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LGBTQ Health Center of Excellence @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
ICYMI Last week we lost ALL of our NIH funding. Here is some of the LGBTQ health equity research that NIH funding has supported. A thread ⬇️ #LGBTQ #HealthEquity #PublicHealth
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Scientist speaks out after NIH terminates grants including study of LGBTQ+ teens' mental health
Dr. Brittany Charlton is speaking out after the NIH terminated all of her grants studying how discriminatory laws impact mental health among LGBTQ+ teens.
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