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Dr Prital Patel

@prital.bsky.social
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Scientist, She/Her/Dr. Live, work, & play on Musqueam, Squamish & Tsleil-Waututh lands on Turtle Island Passionate about public health, decolonizing research & #FreePalestine, #FreeCongo, #FreeSudan, #LandBack.

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Joshua McElwee @joshmcelwee.org · 25/12/2025
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across the globe celebrate the birth of Jesus. For @reuters.com:
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In first Christmas sermon, Pope Leo decries conditions for Palestinians in Gaza
Pope Leo decried conditions for Palestinians in Gaza in his Christmas sermon on Thursday, in an unusually direct appeal during what is normally a solemn, spiritual service on the day Christians across...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
This Christmas, remember the true meaning of family, love, and compassion. No one should face detention or deportation during the holidays. We all deserve safety, dignity, and the right to be with those we love. Let’s make this holiday season one of hope, justice, and humanity for all.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and unhindered humanitarian access to curb deaths from hunger and malnutrition www.who.int/news/item/22...
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Famine confirmed for first time in Gaza
More than half a million people in Gaza are trapped in famine, marked by widespread starvation, destitution and preventable deaths. FAO, UNICEF, WFP and WHO reiterate call for immediate ceasefire and ...
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
A must read and call to action for academics. “The genocide in Gaza is a defining ethical test for the global public health community, social scientists, and academic associations. Silence is not an option. 1/3 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Break the selective silence on the genocide in Gaza
Substantial and well-documented evidence indicates a catastrophic public health emergency in Gaza (appendix pp 1–5), marked by severe food insecurity and alarming levels of malnutrition-related deaths...
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 24/05/2025
The young victims, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old. .
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Outrage, horror after Israeli attack kills nine children of Gaza doctor
The young victims, two of whom remain under the rubble, range in age from seven months to 12 years old. .
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
3 wonderful new global health books, all FREE to download! www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/... link.springer.com/book/10.1007... www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mon...
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
As the Lemkin institute points to scholar complicity in genocide, I hope you take a cold hard look at yourself and your life’s work and sit in what it means to have chosen your comfort & privilege, in your ivory towers built on tax $s, over speaking up against genocide.
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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 07/05/2025
Opinion from the FT's Editorial Board: 'The US and European countries that tout Israel as an ally that shares their values have issued barely a word of condemnation. They should be ashamed of their silence, and stop enabling Netanyahu to act with impunity.' www.ft.com/content/f5fd...
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Not all weapons are bombs. At least 602,000 children in Gaza at risk of permanent paralysis and permanent disability due to Israel blocking polio vaccine access. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo... Where is the outrage from global vaccine advocates?
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‘Pure brutality’: Wave of Israeli air attacks on Gaza kill dozens
Residential buildings and makeshift tents sheltering forcibly displaced families targeted in latest Israeli attacks.
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 06/04/2025
Gaza's Health Ministry says 602,000 children in Gaza are at risk of “permanent paralysis and chronic disabilities” due to Israel’s prevention of polio vaccines in the besieged enclave. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/afxnsl
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Heather McPherson MP @heathermcpherson.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Like so many Canadians and people around the world, my heart is broken by the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Canada must stop all arms sales to Israel. Canada must sanction Netanyahu and his government. Canada must end its complicity in this genocide.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 15/03/2025
President Donald Trump’s crackdown on alleged antisemitism on campuses is alarming students and instructors who say the administration is trying to outlaw criticism of Israel’s war and bend universities to his will. Trump says he’s just getting started.
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Trump says pressure on Columbia is only the beginning for college campuses
The president has launched a campaign to remove noncitizens who protested against Israel -- and bend university administrators to his will.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
No words 💔😞
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Reconciliation Action Group YYC @ragyyc.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
Sharing from @decolonialclothing on IG If you’ve ever had a conversation with someone who is resistant to the Land Back movement or hearing about it for the first time, here are some helpful responses to some common misconceptions about the Land Back movement:
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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · 31/01/2025
The CDC has removed data on sexual orientation, gender identity, and health disparities from their website. Pages removed include: - Youth Risk Behavioral Surveillance System - Social Vulnerability Index - Efforts to Address Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities
CDC Page:

The page you're looking for was not found.

Please try the CDC archives or the A-Z index.

Search CDC.gov
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
ICE is targeting Indigenous peoples, Puerto Ricans, kids, hospitals, schools, and anyone who fits the profile of the “illegal alien.” Never forget that ethnic cleansing is the foundation of US settler colonialism.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Always was, Always will be. #Notadaytocelebrate #Noprideingenocide
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Greatly admire the humility with which Madhu Pai discusses our complicity, as global north researchers, in maintaining power structures that continue to disposes the global south of their narratives and solutions. Have a listen. m.youtube.com/watch?v=pZq8...
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Powershifting in Global Health with Dr Madhukar Pai
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Sean Tucker @seantucker.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
This has been on my mind so I wrote about it: "When discussing Israel and Palestine, universities must do better: We owe it to our students" Thank you The Tyee, editor Jackie Wong, Marc Spooner, colleagues at the U of R and UBC for feedback on drafts. thetyee.ca/Opinion/2024...
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When Discussing Israel and Palestine, Universities Must Do Better | The Tyee
We owe it to our students.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 14/12/2024
"If I loved this almost-baby with this intensity, what could I imagine...of the families trading children with their relatives, so that if and when the bombs come, at least some of their bloodline might persist?" www.midnightsunmag.ca/bloodlines/
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Bloodlines
Malika Sharma on grief and solidarity.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
How has the world not spoken up? 😞 how could our systems be this complicit? “96% of the children in Gaza feel that their death is imminent and almost half want to die as a result of the trauma they have been through.”
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 09/12/2024
Concordia University hired Israeli security firms to suppress pro-Palestinian student protests.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Just saw an event advertised with a sliding scale for the ticket price and accompanied with the text “no one turned away for lack of funds”. BLESSSSSSS! ❤️
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Dec 24, the performative, opportunistic careerists of the global North continue on in silence. “ UN Secretary-@antonioguterres says Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in the world per capita w/ “many losing limbs & undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia”. ”
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a woman in a trench coat stands on a street with the words nothing to see here
ALT: a woman in a trench coat stands on a street with the words nothing to see here
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
“UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Gaza now has the highest number of child amputees in the world per capita with “many losing limbs and undergoing surgeries without even anaesthesia”.
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Christi Belcourt @christibelcourt.com · 02/12/2024
He could stop a genocide. Instead he pardoned his son.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
I do not know how to show up with integrity on Turtle Island, honour the stories of residential school survivors & work towards undoing harms that these systems continue to do to Indigenous Peoples without also speaking up for Palestine. @yipengge.bsky.social x.com/yipengge/sta...
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Why is it that an ice cream business gets Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion & Antiracism so right while academic institutions & people with accolades through the roof have been failing miserably. Earnesticecream is truly Vancouvers best.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Water harvesting as in not allowed to collect rain water. 😞
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Akbar Shahid Ahmed @akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I joined @democracynow.bsky.social to discuss today's ICC warrants & yesterday's historic Senate vote on US weapons for Israel. "This isn’t just a decision about Israel. By extension, it fundamentally is a decision about the United States" & its role in Gaza. www.democracynow.org/2024/11/21/i...
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ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu & Gallant over Gaza Crimes
The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed ...
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Beginning of the end of colonial impunity. Beginning of the end of the empire.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Living in the global North, advocating for Palestinian life has felt like screaming into the void for over a year. Welcome news that arrest warrants issued for Netanyahu + others by the ICC. Our media must be held accountable for the biased coverage of the genocide in Gaza.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Reminder:
More infections increases multiple mechanisms that lead to the evolution of more variants, including more viral replication adding more mutations to the gene pool, more persistent infections, more coinfections and recombination, stronger natural selection in a larger viral population, and more chances of ping-pong zoonosis.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Canada is super good at apologizing for things they did decades ago while at the same time doing things they'll apologize for decades later. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
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Ottawa to compensate Inuit in Nunavik for mass sled dog slaughter | CBC News
Ottawa will offer financial compensation to Inuit in Nunavik for the devastation caused by the mass slaughter of their sled dogs, the Crown-Indigenous relations minister tells CBC News.
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Amber Ying 應 緣 @amberying.com · 19/11/2024
I'm currently reading this book and may have more thoughts to share, but one thing I noticed (if I remember correctly) in Wind's description of the curricula in Israeli universities is the centering of Israeli history and language. That reminds me of the white-centric curricula in US universities.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Louder for all the “advocates” of public health and “equity”.
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Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I continue to update! go.bsky.app/SNvMPk3
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Jasmine K Gani @jasminekgani.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Starter Pack on Colonialism, Decolonisation & Race 👇. Interdisciplinary and not limited to academics. Set it up last week so I may have missed people who joined recently - pls let me know if you'd like to be added (or removed). ..Overlapping starter packs v.welcome! go.bsky.app/NypyY8Q
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Prof Sunny Singh @profsunnysingh.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Boosting this account. Follow, contribute and attend the worshops. These are good peeps doing good work
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Looking for an answer too
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Jairo I. Fúnez-Flores @insurgentthought.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Zionists when they see the program I made for next year’s academic conference.
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Dr Prital Patel @prital.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression” Chlöe Swarbrick
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