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Maarten van der Heijden

@mrvanderheijden.bsky.social
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Contains multitudes. Global health lawyer and advisor. PhD candidate at LSHTM researching the global politics of the use of antibiotics. 🌍💊 Consultant at WHO + FAO + WOAH, ex-MSF

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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
It is often assumed that international law provides an absolute prohibition on attacks on healthcare facilities in war. It does not. But it should. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
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The playbook for bombing hospitals in war: deny, deflect, justify. The law must close these loopholes | Maarten van der Heijden
Cynical actors exploit the legal ambiguities around targeting healthcare facilities, as seen in Gaza. Unequivocal protections are needed
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SCPA Misfit @mochamisfit.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
We are in a constitutional crisis. Thank you congressmen Murphy and Raskin.
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
"I knew a premature VHF diagnosis could cause panic and have profound political implications." – A very strong piece in NEJM by Dr JP Sibomana on the personal and political complexity of diagnosing Rwanda’s first Marburg outbreak. doi.org/10.1056/NEJMp2413951
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Fight or Flight — Facing the Marburg Outbreak in Rwanda | NEJM
Having diagnosed two ICU patients with the first known cases of Marburg virus disease in Rwanda, a physician must prioritize limiting spread, despite pleas for transfer from the patients’ families.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
We now have 3 starter packs for Global Health Nerds! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD go.bsky.app/RScFWyt go.bsky.app/ADqkPeH Will keep updating!
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
imagine if you could imagine things and then they were just like you imagined. well, now we all get to live there -- or else
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
(1/5) The past months, I’ve heard many stories of people losing family members to asthma because they couldn’t access medication. Asthma inhaler prices were already high, but have increased by 2-5x over the last years in many countries. www.bbc.com/news/videos/... www.voanews.com/a/nigerians-...
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Cost of asthma inhalers: ‘People shouldn’t be paying to breathe’
Some inhalers in Nigeria have doubled or tripled in price since last year, leaving many struggling.
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Have been dabbling a bit outside of the global health/medicines sphere lately. This Thursday I am speaking about countries' legislative frameworks for cell-based meat at the International Bar Association on behalf of the FAO. 🧫🥩https://www.ibanet.org/conference-details/CONF2628
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Cultivated meat: opportunities and challenges | International Bar Association
A webinar presented by the IBA Agriculture and Food Section Cultivated meat, also known as lab-grown or cell-based meat, introduces a groundbreaking approach to meat production, poised to tackle the c...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
And if you plan to host global health events and meetings, here is a list of visa friendly countries communities.springernature.com/posts/visa-f...
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Visa-friendly venues for global health meetings
Conference organizers have an obligation to host meetings in locations that are not visa-hostile. Are there ‘visa-friendly’ options that conference organizers should be considering? This crowd-sourced...
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
@jessicareinisch.bsky.social So cool you’re researching UNRRA! I’m preparing a short piece on the role UNRRA/WHO in the local production of antibiotics atm :) Would love to discuss!
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Joyce Chaplin @joycechaplin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Hello new followers from that bleak gray place! Reposting my first post on this site: a cyanometer, the instrument Alexander von Humboldt (among others) used to determine how blue any sky actually was
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Anita Williams @catanita.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Hey #AMR people - am wanting to broaden the capture of the feed for other languages so if you know the key words for antimicrobial resistance in another language, please drop it in the replies below!
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James Packard Love @jamielove.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Natuure: 2020 Nobel Prize winners Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier ask that two of their EU CRISPR patents be cancelled. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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CRISPR Nobelists surrender their own European patents - Nature Biotechnology
A strategic move by lawyers acting for Doudna and Charpentier is the latest twist in the battleground for CRISPR–Cas9 technology.
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Old definitions of 'drugs'/'medicines' form a problem for controlling antimicrobial use. Two main Qs are: (1) Does this definition include medicated feed for animals? (Probably) (2) Does this definition use the use of mediciens as growth promotors? (Probably not) Out of scope = uncontrolled use
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Pictures of a stroll along Lumley Beach in Freetown after giving a workshop on reforming the governance of veterinary medicines for One Health Day last week.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Updated Global Health Nerds starter pack Will create part 2! go.bsky.app/DgwRPwD
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Chris Houston @chrishouston.ca · 11/11/2024
Citing @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social’s Tweet from last month, Twitter is losing users in a massive way.
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Roojin Habibi روژین (she/elle) @roojinhabibi.org · 10/11/2024
A starting line up of global health folks who work across law, policy and ethics. There are many others to add - please share widely and suggest additions! go.bsky.app/Qj9GcA1
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Back from Sierra Leone, where we launched AMR campaigns on TV/radio. Yet WhatsApp groups are the main news source. Quality reporting mixes there with anti-chemo content, making posting a dilemma... This new information age + attention economy is an unprecedented challenge. Glad to join #bsky
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Maarten van der Heijden @mrvanderheijden.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Just started here, this is a great resource! Thanks @madhupai.bsky.social
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