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Travis Bias

@tbias.bsky.social
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Physician | Deputy CMO of HIS at Solventum | Health Systems at UCSF IGHS | #MedSky | Op-Eds in Stat & Think Global Health

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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Our “unilateral disarmament” is a huge gift to our competition. China is all too happy to fill the quickly forming vacuum. In tennis, we call this an “unforced error.”
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
“These half-truths and strategic deceptions made it easier for people with the worst motives to appear trustworthy” Great piece. The truth and facts are the cornerstone of science, and thus public health.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
Basically: China First, America Second.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
“Without scientific progress, no amount of achievement in other directions can insure our health, prosperity, and security as a nation.” Great context from @dhruvkhullar.bsky.social on the role of American scientific institutions. #science #health #research www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Trump’s Agenda Is Undermining American Science
Research funded by the federal government has found useful expression in many of the defining technologies of our time. This Administration threatens that progress.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Could not agree more. Time for strategic retreat. Give the people what they voted for. @nytopinion.nytimes.com #democrats www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/o...
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Chelsea Polis @cbpolis.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.” @stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
Imagine the impact this has on the reputation of America around the world. Abruptly removing aid is not the right way to reform or change. #publichealth #usaid #diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/h...
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Emergency Food, TB Tests and H.I.V. Drugs: Vital Health Aid Remains Frozen Despite Court Ruling
The Trump administration appears to be flouting a judge’s order pausing the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Informed consent includes mentioning the benefits. Like you and your family not being one of 40,000 dead Americans during each flu season. @helenbranswell.bsky.social #vaccineswork #vaccines #publichealth www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/c...
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HHS orders CDC to halt some vaccine ads, saying RFK Jr. wants message focused on ‘informed consent’
The CDC was ordered to shelve promotions it developed for a variety of vaccines after Health Secretary RFK Jr. said he wants message focused on "informed consent."
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Compelling piece, in which @gregggonsalves.bsky.social reminds us: “you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com #hiv #aids #publichealth www.nytimes.com/2025/02/13/o...
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Opinion | I Shudder to Imagine Kennedy Running Our Health Agencies.
We have to go toe-to-toe with this administration and resist its attacks on public health.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
“In Kenya alone, at least 40,000 health care workers will lose their jobs.” “Ethiopia’s health ministry has fired 5,000 #healthworkers recruited under American funding.” These systems will collapse without their health workforce. @declanwalsh.bsky.social #health #diplomacy #healthsystems #usaid
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
It was an honor to join Lalita and Kelly for this discussion about “how technology can scale the magic of Family Medicine." #medicine #primarycare #MedSky open.spotify.com/episode/0eqV...
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Travis Bias, DO: The Family Medicine Business Ambassador
One Click At a Time: Technology Empowered Family Medicine Podcast · Episode
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
This NYT piece describes the devastation being wrought in the global health sector by the foreign assistance freeze. Let me say a few words about what this looks like in the sector I work in, often called democracy and governance (DRG). 🧵
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Nate Schenkkan @nateschenkkan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
What’s happening isn’t reform. It’s an attempt to capture and destroy the single most critical piece of infrastructure in global democracy and rights support—US funding. And it’s working.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
“At stake is not just the good will that the United States has built internationally, but also its work to promote America’s security interests.” Beyond the moral case there is a clear self-interest case that the Admin is missing. @declanwalsh.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/w...
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How the World Is Reeling From Trump’s Aid Freeze
President Trump’s order to halt most foreign aid has intensified humanitarian crises and raised questions about the United States’ reliability as a global leader.
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
This was maybe the most sobering moment in my reporting this week – a scientist doing the tabulation of how long the tail of this would be, even if funding resumed shortly.
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Stephanie Nolen @stephanienolen.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I hated having to write this, but I'm grateful to the many people who risked their ability to do critically important work they love, by talking to me. (And I will continue to cover it, so if you want to talk to me, DM for my Signal.) www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/h...
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Health Programs Shutter Around the World After Trump Pauses Foreign Aid (Gift Article)
Lifesaving treatment and prevention programs for tuberculosis, malaria, H.I.V. and other diseases cannot access funds to continue work.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
This will end up being a deadly and costly (financial, credibility) freeze for the US. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/africa...
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Trump Aid Whiplash Hits Refugees, AIDS Patients Worldwide
Muddled orders from the administration have left global charities confused about what they are and aren’t allowed to do with American money.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
What an incredible testament to the importance of: - Investments in #healthsystems; “Rwanda, for its part, has invested heavily in its healthcare system.” - Partnerships & relationships - Preparedness, such as Table Top Exercises. …all to bring the 100 Days Mission to reality.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
"Generating support for an internationalist #foreignpolicy requires...a vivid picture of what that world would be like without an active US. Isolation has never been the answer to the country’s security or prosperity." ...or #health @foreignaffairs.com www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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The Perils of Isolationism
The world still needs America—and America still needs the world.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
A few visuals of the #corruption that siphoned off resources from the health system. Among other health impacts of the regime… www.nytimes.com/2024/12/10/w...
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A Tour of Assad’s Monumental Palace, With a Scruffy Rebel as a Guide
The televisions may be stripped away now, but a presidential residence still contains many remnants of a brutal reign.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
When Geriatric #Millennials envisioned our generation taking power, these were not the personalities we had in mind. Now the anti-war anti-interventionist views? Oddly, we can find common ground.
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 07/12/2024
This is an oligarchy. The founders never intended people to have this much power… EVER Stop the oligarchy
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
This is a phenomenal and heartbreaking piece about how conflict contributes to antimicrobial resistance. #amr #conflict #MedSky
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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Vivek is literally an unelected federal bureaucrat.
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Brian Deer 布莱恩-迪尔 @briandeer.com · 25/11/2024
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/25/o... Knocked out to get my first piece in the world's best newspaper @nytimes.com
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Opinion | Kennedy’s Antivax Views and Friends Can Cause Real Damage
What he did during a measles epidemic in Samoa shouldn’t be forgotten.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Have you heard of Robert Rayford? He was the earliest confirmed case of HIV/AIDS in North America. His story reshapes how we understand the epidemic and reminds us to fight for health equity.I encourage you to read this piece of #HIV history. A 🧵 #WorldAIDSDay2024 www.aidschicago.org/say-his-name...
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Say His Name: Robert Rayford - AIDS Foundation of Chicago
Resetting the timeline and narrative around the HIV Epidemic  In the annals of medical history, certain names echo loudly, while others remain shrouded in obscurity, their stories consigned to the for...
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
This #WorldAIDSDay is an opportunity to celebrate impactful gains over the last 2 decades - like the dramatic increase in #PrEP access - but also to highlight how far we have to go. #EndAIDS #WorldAIDSDay2024 #UequalsU #HIV #SDG3
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
An RFK-led HHS will damage American credibility abroad. Such conspiratorial anti-science actions not only negatively impact #publichealth abroad, but they will ultimately impact the health of Americans.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
RFK Jr’s groups “have interfered with vaccination efforts, undermined sex education campaigns meant to stem the spread of AIDS in Africa, & railed against global organizations like the @who.int that are in charge of #health initiatives.” @nytimes.com #diplomacy www.nytimes.com/2024/11/30/w...
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How Kennedy Has Worked Abroad to Weaken Global Public Health Policy
The health secretary pick and his organization have worked around the world to undermine longstanding policies on measles, AIDS and more.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
“…early in the pandemic, many of the leading #Covid contrarians, including some of those now at the top of Trump’s short list, were among the most inaccurate voices making claims…” David Wallace-Wells on #publichealth implications of a 2nd Trump admin @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/o...
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Opinion | Kennedy, Bhattacharya and Trump’s Covid Contrarian Cabinet
Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
From Ukraine to the Middle East to China, the geopolitical landscape is set to shift dramatically in the new year. The changing foreign relations dynamics will impact #publichealth and health security. @foreignpolicy.com with @ianbremmer.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/3NP1...
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Geopolitical Risk in a Trump 2.0 World
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Graham Walker, MD @drgrahamwalker.com · 27/11/2024
The country's 2nd largest state losing OB-Gyn medical residents and attendings should probably alarm people www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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The Texas Ob-Gyn Exodus
Amid increasingly stringent abortion laws, doctors who provide maternal care have been fleeing the state.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
The dismal initial US response to COVID was on the Trump admin. We toyed with false solutions & focused on placing blame on China rather than solving the immediate problem. The one eventual bright spot was Operation Warp Speed. Would Dr. Bhattacharya support OWS 2.0? #vaccineswork #MedSky
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Dr. Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
For many of the serious health challenges we face, real solutions exist. Focusing on what we can do rather than sowing panic is the way to make change.
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Opinion | In America, if Everything Is a Public Health Crisis, Nothing Is
Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
“When everything is a crisis, nothing can be.” Varying explanations for a crisis can then create a “sense that the present [is] deeply fraught and that the faster we usher in the future, the sooner all our problems would be solved.” @nytimes.com #publichealth www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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Opinion | ‘We Tire Very Quickly of Being Told That Everything Is on Fire’
Why invoking a public health crisis too often can lead society astray.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Fantastic piece, as usual, from @nathanheller.bsky.social “It’s about seeding the ambience of information, throwing facts and fake facts alike into an environment of low attention, with the confidence that, like minnows released individually into a pond, they will eventually school and spawn.”
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Just heard this fantastic Michael Gungor quote on #burnout: “Burnout is what happens when you try to avoid being human for too long.” #MedSky
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
The US is already here: “Domestic internal divisions are weakening our global credibility.” - Francis Fukuyama @foreignaffairs.com #foreignpolicy #diplomacy #global podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Trump and the Crisis of Liberalism
Podcast Episode · The Foreign Affairs Interview · 11/21/2024 · 35m
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Last year, when I was at MSNBC, I did a 10-minute deep-dive into RFK Jr's anti-vaxxer role in the measles outbreak that killed dozens and dozens of kids in Samoa. I hope every Senator voting in his confirmation process for HHS knows about this crucial and awful story:
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RFK Jr., anti-vaxxers, and a measles outbreak: Mehdi’s deep dive
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
The inconsistencies are truly incredible. The GOP wants the right to make their own #healthcare decisions. …but not when it comes to a woman deciding how to handle her own pregnancy.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
“We are all about to find out precisely how vulnerable we really are.”
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Michael Osterholm, PhD, MPH @mtosterholm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Vaccines save lives and reduce healthcare costs. Those are facts. It is dangerous that RFK Jr., a political figure with no medical or public health training, is the choice to take the nation’s most powerful and important public health job. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/20/o...
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Opinion | What R.F.K. Jr. Might Do on Vaccines
As the nation’s top health official, he could discourage vaccine research and production, and dissuade Americans from getting shots.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
There is a big difference between debating the merits of pandemic measures & the benefits of vaccines. If we want to talk evidence or science, let's talk. Scientists and clinicians of all types stand ready. @wsj.com #MedSky #publichealth www.wsj.com/health/healt...
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How Science Lost America’s Trust and Surrendered Health Policy to Skeptics
Voters still angry over Covid-19 measures backed Trump’s embrace of RFK. Officials worry they won’t have ample clout for the next crisis.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
What if - hear me out now - we paid the Family physicians like 75% of what the Dermatologists make? The #primarycare shortage would disappear. #MedSky @wsj.com www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...
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$500,000 Pay, Predictable Hours: How Dermatology Became the ‘It’ Job in Medicine
Americans’ newfound obsession with skin care has medical students flocking to this specialty.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
2 takeaways from this piece on LLMs improving diagnostic accuracy. 1️⃣ #AI tools have the potential to dramatically increase access to information. In #healthcare, this can mean improved diagnostic accuracy, better outcomes, lower costs. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/17/h...
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ChatGPT Defeated Doctors at Diagnosing Illness
A small study found ChatGPT outdid human physicians when assessing medical case histories, even when those doctors were using a chatbot.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
“And the victims wouldn’t just be children in families that consciously opt out.” @zey.bsky.social This is why #publichealth measures are so important. It’s about protecting you AND your community. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/16/o...
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Opinion | How Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Could Destroy One of Civilization’s Best Achievements
Let’s not make child mortality great again.
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
These appointments prove that insisting people achieve and be promoted based on “merit” was never really their real concern.
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Travis Bias @tbias.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
This is peak Idiocracy. www.politico.com/news/2024/11...
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Trump to select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to lead HHS
The choice will roil many public health experts after his years of touting debunked claims that vaccines cause autism.
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Virginia Heffernan @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Astounding view from European pharma and tech: they’re anticipating being able to hire more Americans, with an American brain drain. Now that educated people are not wanted in the U.S.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 13/11/2024
i would happily pay a few dollars a month to keep this place viable.
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