Reposted by Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD MPHProf Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 06/06/2026Unbelievably chilling, shameful collaborationist behavior by a medical association Ta-Nehisi Coates: “We'll come out of this. And let me tell you something: If none of us are here to see it, tell your children who the cowards were.” 7531190
Reposted by Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD MPHKristen Boyle, PhD @kristenboyle.bsky.social · 06/06/2026#StandUpForScience at #ADA! Today and tomorrow during the Presidential Addresses at 9:45am. Audience members stand throughout the talk. 🧪 43417
Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD MPH @rbenderignacio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Why isn’t the US like Sweden? Because we don’t fundamentally agree that everyone deserves same rights to health and opportunity. And we can study how to address that (or we could before) but we need to back science up with public health and healthcare for everyone 020
Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD MPH @rbenderignacio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025That US health outcomes align with a system of societal inequity and lack of universal health care coverage such that scientific breakthroughs only reach some people-AND we’re now not allowed to talk about or study the way to bridge the gaps (implementation science) to the groups who are left out 120
Rachel Bender Ignacio, MD MPH @rbenderignacio.bsky.social · 22/09/2025Someone needed to say this. As one of the authors of the public health statement he misused a quote from, I’m disgusted that this was published as an appropriate critique on the NIH. Should the NIH undergo reforms? Yes. can we discuss (one of the many) elephants? 251