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Melissa Walls

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Anishinaabe settler mix Mom-daughter-wife-pal Professor

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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 18/03/2026
Climate change is exacerbating physical inactivity with dire consequences, driving potentially hundreds of thousands of premature deaths worldwide by 2050, according to a new study.
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Inactivity in a warming world could spur hundreds of thousands of deaths
Physical inactivity rises alongside temperature. A study in Lancet projected up to 520,000 additional deaths by 2050 and $2.59 billion in annual productivity losses.
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Melissa Walls @mlwalls.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Healing Pathways is the reason I went to school for a PhD. This team continues to mentor me as we serve our People. cih.jhu.edu/healing-path...
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Healing Pathways: Cindy on Trust and Partnership - Center for Indigenous Health
Cindy McDougall, enrolled member and lifelong resident of the White Earth Nation in northwestern Minnesota, has been supporting the Healing Pathways Project (Anishinaabe Giigewin Miikana) for 23 years...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Back of the envelope calculation for NIH funds cut in FY 2025 Funds cut due to terminations and slow noncompetitive renewal/grant awards: $8.6 B. 15% cut of research management and support ($2.48B), Intramural research ($5.18 B), and R&D Contracts ($3.91 B). $1.8 B. TOTAL CUT: $10.4 Billion
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a little girl is making a funny face with the word yikes written on her face .
ALT: a little girl is making a funny face with the word yikes written on her face .
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Melissa Walls @mlwalls.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Tracking excess deaths related to funding cuts - a somber tracker from Boston U. www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...
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Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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Eloquenti 🧪✍️📚 @eloquenti.com · 10/03/2025
🧪A starter pack of European scientific societies and associations🇪🇺🇬🇧 📣 Repost to connect researchers on #BlueSky🦋 #research #science #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #SciSky #EduSky #Academia #AcademicBluesky #SciComm #PostDoc #ECR #ECRChat #NewPI #PhD #PhDSky #MedSky #StandWithScience #eloquenti
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Joshua Sharfstein @drjoshs.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Understanding diversity, equity, and inclusion -- a conversation with Dr. Lisa Cooper. On @publichealthpod.bsky.social johnshopkinssph.libsyn.com/857-the-conc...
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Public Health On Call: 857 - The Concepts Behind The Language of Equity
About this episode: In today’s episode: A discussion with Dr. Lisa Cooper, the director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, about opposition to the terms "diversity," "equity," and "in...
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
There’s a lot of noise surrounding vaccines. The @publichealthpod.bsky.social podcast looks at the basics of vaccines and vaccination—including how they work, the science behind safety, the systems built to ensure children are immunized against life-threatening diseases, and more.
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Vaccines 101: From Molecular Science to Global Policy | Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
A series from the Public Health On Call podcast explores the science, safety, and systems behind vaccines.
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Johns Hopkins Center for Indigenous Health @jhucih.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
@jhucih.bsky.social is thrilled to connect with you. Baltimore is our home, with sites in the Southwest, Great Plains, and Great Lakes regions. We strive to share successes with Indigenous communities worldwide as we build respectful, collaborative partnerships in public health. cih.jhu.edu.
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CNN @cnn.com · 25/02/2025
Shorter hours. Longer lines. And no more guided tours. Visitors to America’s national parks can expect some of those impacts after the Trump administration fired 1,000 park employees as part of its latest effort to dramatically reduce the federal workforce.
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Mass firing hits national parks ahead of busy summer season | CNN
Visitors to America’s national parks can expect shorter hours and longer lines after the Trump administration fired 1,000 park employees as part of its latest effort to dramatically reduce the federal...
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Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research @alliancehpsr.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
How can we disrupt research & learning to advance health equity? At a recent meeting, global leaders discussed innovative strategies to reimagine research, tackle structural inequities & foster collaboration. Read more: ahpsr.who.int/newsroom/new... #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminants
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Disrupting research and learning for health equity
Despite substantial evidence showing that social determinants deeply impact health equity, global efforts to address these inequities have often fallen short. Reconsidering how knowledge is produced, ...
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Heather Turiello @heatherturiello.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
This feels so relevant right now.
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