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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Mpox threatened the US first in 2022, killing 58. But the story was different in 2024. Distinguished Senior Fellows @nikkiromanik.bsky.social and @spsaki.bsky.social write that "the two mpox responses in the US highlight a public health truism—when preparedness works, it is often invisible."

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A Tale Of Two Mpox Outbreaks | Health Affairs Forefront

For decades, mpox did not pose a threat to Americans, but that changed rapidly and repeatedly over the past five years.

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MedPage Today @medpagetoday.com · 23/01/2026

In an #OpEd, @darakass.com, @spsaki.bsky.social, and Liz Tobin-Tyler, JD, MA, all of @brownpublichealth.bsky.social, explain what the research actually shows about reproductive coercion. Read now: www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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Opinion | Debunking the 'Coercion' Argument in the Abortion Pill Debate

Restricting mifepristone access doesn't protect women from abuse

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

In #HealthAffairs, our Senior Adviser @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social co-authored w/ @spsaki.bsky.social how we should protect Americans in a #BirdFlu pandemic. From rebuilding surveillance to restoring #mRNA vaccine programs. Read more ⤵️ www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...

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Brown University School of Public Health @brownpublichealth.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

"Advances have made it possible to detect, treat, and stop the pathogens most likely to sweep across continents and cause widespread death," Senior Fellow @spsaki.bsky.social writes in @vox.com. "The question now is not whether we can prevent the next pandemic, but whether we will."

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Pandemics are a choice

The end of pandemics is within reach. Why aren't we acting like it?

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

The birth rate is dropping in the U.S. because Americans can’t afford to have families. Pushing women out of the workforce will only make that worse. New piece in TIME: time.com/7328698/wome...

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The Real Way to Boost Birth Rates

Politicians need to make parenting more affordable and more compatible with working life, writes Stephanie Psaki.

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 12/09/2025

Pay attention! They are testing health policies internationally before imposing them in the U.S. They falsely say that contraceptives cause abortion to justify destroying them. They are coming for contraception in the U.S. next (actually, already). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/h...

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$10 Million in Contraceptives Have Been Destroyed on Orders From Trump Officials

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Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH, SM @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social · 03/09/2025

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

“Pro-family” policy requires freedom, support, and respect for people’s choices. These are not radical ideas. They’re deeply American ones. New piece in Time with Jess Marcella: time.com/7310023/real...

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Here’s What Real Pro-Family Policy Looks Like

We need to stop treating 'pro-family' as a culture war slogan and start treating Americans with freedom and respect.

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 11/08/2025

In the last 6 months this administration has dismantled a system built over decades to keep Americans safe from biological threats. @bethcameron-dc.bsky.social, Jon Finer and I describe what it takes to keep these threats out: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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No One in the White House Knows How to Stop Ebola

We had a playbook for handling biothreats. Then Trump pushed out the people who knew how to use it.

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Sarah Karlin-Smith @sarahkarlin-smith.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Hundreds of thousands of doses of mpox vaccine that the United States had promised to send to African nations are in danger of going to waste, dozens of congressional Democrats said in a letter to the U.S. State Department on Wednesday.

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Hundreds of thousands of US taxpayer-funded vaccine doses may expire, lawmakers say

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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

They’re forming a CDC workgroup to decide which line on this graph looks better and their answer may surprise you

Global infant mortality rate with
and without vaccines
Infant mortality rates measure the share of newborns who die before reaching their first birthday. They are shown here as the actual observed change in the global rate (in blue), and a hypothetical scenario if vaccinations hadn't been rolled out (in red).

While both lines decline, the gap between them continues to widen, resulting in an almost 50% difference at 2024.

Data source: Shattock et al. (2024). Contribution of vaccination to improved child survival: modelling 50 years of the Expanded Programme on Immunization.
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Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

This is a travesty & a nightmare. The US was a founder of @gavi.org. It lowers global vaccine costs, has vaccinated 1B children, & averted 19M deaths. This pull out will cost 100s of thousands of children's lives a year - and RFK Jr will be personally responsible. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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RFK Jr. says US won’t donate to global vaccine effort

Kennedy ripped into Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, in a video address at its pledging summit.

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Gavi works in close partnership (operationally and financially) with governments around the world to distribute life-saving vaccines to children. Their work has saved nearly 20 million lives since 2000. Kennedy is either misinformed or lying, but either way children will die as a result.

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Kennedy Withdraws Funding Pledge to International Vaccine Agency

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

We don’t close military bases in unstable regions and hope for the best—we maintain forward deployment to prevent emergencies. The same logic applies to public health. New piece in @justsecurity.org about cuts to CDC’s presence around the world, with @nikkiromanik.bsky.social

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Foreign aid can save lives and ALSO advance U.S. interests in the world. Its not an either/or. I argued in @thinkglobalhealth.org that foreign aid builds soft power when it is: ✅ Visible ✅ Altruistic ✅ Effective ✅ Aligned with country priorities

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U.S. Soft Power: Next Steps After the Foreign Aid Withdrawal | Think Global Health

A former White House official on the future of advancing strategic interests while saving lives and growing economies

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Ashish K Jha @ashishkjha.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

There is a new pandemic treaty that'll get ratified at World Health Assembly next week Its meant to fix lethal gaps we saw during COVID in getting vaccines to poor countries Unfortunately, as @spsaki.bsky.social and I lay out in @statnews.com, it probably won't do much But there is a better way

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The DSR Network @thedsrnetwork.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

On The Daily Blast, @gregsargent.bsky.social talked to @spsaki.bsky.social. She explains what we want from public officials at moments like these—and why the anti-vax views of RFK and the cavalier approach to public health add up to a picture that’s “terrifying.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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The Daily Blast: “Terrifying”: Trump’s Ominous Moment with RFK on First Measles Death

Podcast Episode · The DSR Network · 02/27/2025 · 25m

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Pandemic Center at Brown University’s School of Public Health @pandemiccenter.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Join us Friday for, The cost of defunding #PEPFAR and the impact on the fight against HIV/AIDS, moderated by @wilmotjames.bsky.social w/ panelist Glenda Gray, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg & @spsaki.bsky.social, @brownpublichealth.bsky.social Register ⤵️ brown.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

"For authoritarian leaders worldwide, the agency’s dismantling represents a potential retreat of American democratic influence." It is stunning to see this administration undermine U.S. interests around the world so swiftly and - possibly - irreversibly. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Authoritarian regimes around the world cheer on dismantling of USAid

Elon Musk-led razing of US foreign aid agency led strong-arm rulers in Hungary, Belarus and elsewhere to celebrate

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Matthew Kavanagh @matthewkavanagh.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Abolishing USAID Would Contravene U.S. law, the U.S. constitution, and would harm response to current and future outbreaks... A thread.

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Jennifer Hansler @jmhansler.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

NEW: Two top security officials at USAID were put on admin leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Musk’s DOGE to access systems at the agency, even after DOGE personnel threatened to call law enforcement, multiple sources familiar told CNN www.cnn.com/2025/02/02/p...

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Senior USAID security officials put on leave after refusing Musk’s DOGE access to agency systems | CNN Politics

Two top security officials at the US Agency for International Development were put on administrative leave Saturday night after refusing to allow officials from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Ef...

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Given reports of a new Ebola outbreak in DRC, it's definitely time to run the playbook we left behind. The early days in a response will make the difference between a quickly contained Ebola outbreak, or an extended outbreak with spread across borders, loss of life, and billions of $ to contain.

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Dr. Stephanie Psaki @spsaki.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

We left behind a playbook for outbreaks and other biological threats, and public servants are there who know how to use it. The new administration should let them protect Americans from this threat.

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Who is protecting Americans from Marburg right now?

The WHO and the CDC coordinated well when faced with viral outbreaks. This is no time to demolish a well-oiled machine.

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