Reposted by Nicholas Enrich
Great to run into @nenrich.bsky.social another Green Wave alum at @tulanesphtm.bsky.social. So important to discuss and raise awareness about the dismantling of global health and the impact this will have on us here
Nicholas Enrich
@nenrich.bsky.social
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New York Times best selling author, and former Acting Assistant Administrator for Global Health at USAID
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ENRICH
So many. I mean, this was the problem of what happens when you hollow out an agency of its expertise and replace it with people who really have no idea what these programs are. I mean, I was trying to describe the impacts of malaria, I believe, to one of our senior political appointees, and he said, "Whoa, whoa, slow down. Is there any way you can do this in, like, Barney-style slides, so so that we can understand, as non-health people?"
[Current Affairs' Nathan J.] ROBINSON
Referring to the children's, the dinosaur—
NICHOLAS ENRICH
—that children's dinosaur, to describe how malaria works and why it's a danger. There was another political appointee who told me, when I was pushing to restart lifesaving Ebola activities, he told me just that Ebola is a scam.
ROBINSON
That's..I never.. I haven't, I haven't actually heard that conspiracy before.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:tggnypgiqns732yimqq7w553/bafkreigupcopo7ecok37t4huzafw6skho574y3onhecxpwyulx6orvqcfa)
