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yipeng ge 葛义朋

@yipengge.bsky.social
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family doctor; structural determinants of health; public health; anti-racism; he/him

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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
In a month, I’ll be speaking alongside dear public health colleagues at the 18th World Congress in Public Health in Cape Town, South Africa. Looking forward to connecting with likeminded public health advocates who are committed to the work of collective liberation. 🇵🇸 🇸🇩❤️
Graphic and photo of Yipeng about being a speaker at the 18th World Congress on Public health. On Sept 6-9, 2026. In Cape Town, South Africa.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“I lost my job over Palestine, but I found a deeper commitment to life and justice.” Please read her story via Shree Paradkar here: archive.is/yTcX0
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
“I could no longer bring myself to give my labour to a workplace where people were targeted for speaking out against a genocide, including the bombing of hospitals and the murder and abduction of our Palestinian colleagues” Love you, Dr. Kavita Algu. ❤️
Dr Yipeng with Dr Kavita.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Your antiracist and anticolonial approach and lens to health is deeply needed in our current world. May we keep practicing with an ethic of love and joy making. Happy birthday my dear friend, sending you so much love. ❤️
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Congratulations on your 6 year mandate as the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dr. Tlaleng Mofokeng. I am so grateful to call you a dear friend.
Dr Tlaleng and Dr Yipeng in a photo together.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I want to read you a poem. Think of Others by Mahmoud Darwish. Translated from Arabic by Sarah Ragoub.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
A 58 year old Swiss man is able to come to Ottawa and attend the CANSEC arms fair, and yell “I’m a fucking racist and I’m proud of it”, and punch a 21 year old Palestinian woman down to the ground, without any meaningful accountability. Appalling decision by the judge. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Swiss man who assaulted protester in Ottawa gets absolute discharge | CBC News
A Swiss man who pleaded guilty to punching a protester in the face outside an Ottawa defence conference in 2024 was given an absolute discharge Wednesday before exiting the courtroom to angry shouts f...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Doctors like Dr. Abu Safiya should be protected, and yet he and other Palestinian medics are being systemically detained and tortured when they could be saving lives.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Dr. Abu Safiya, a Palestinian pediatrician, is in grave danger. He’s been detained by Israel without trial for over 560 days and it’s been reported his health is rapidly deteriorating. The latest from his lawyer is that he fears he’ll die.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
⚠️ Don’t stop talking about Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya ⚠️ Urgent new health warning issued: FREE DOCTOR ABU SAFIYA! #FreeAbuSafiya Sign the petition today calling for his immediate release: secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Be a doctor who is against genocide. Be a doctor who is for collective liberation. Free Palestine. 🇵🇸 Grateful for my fellow healthcare workers who organize for Palestine for gifting me this t-shirt. ❤️
Yipeng wearing a T-shirt that reads “Doctor” with a keffiyeh pattern, standing in front of the Palestinian flag.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The oil and gas industry, along with our politicians, are making the planet unliveable for human beings and all living beings we share the planet with. Speak up, organize, and demand a different world.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Where we base our economy over the wellbeing of the people and the planet, not centring our economy on militarism, genocide, and war - which is the direction we are headed in under Mark Carney.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
A different world is possible where profits are not prioritized over the people, the planet, and all living beings on this shared planet we find ourselves on.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
We are calling on all medical and healthcare workers to raise your voice. The 95 Palestinian medical and healthcare workers in Israeli jails must be released. We must pressure international and Israeli authorities to release them all! Join our campaign: www.drove.com/campaign/6a4...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
May the family of the young female prostester and the broader community in Ottawa see justice and accountability in this case. May every war monger and war profiteer face justice and accountability.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
It was despicable to hear his defence in court heavily relying on a psychiatrist explaining that his medical conditions of diabetes and PTSD contributed to his violent behaviour of punching and striking down the young female protester to the ground.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
I attended the court hearing on June 5 for this Swiss man who physically assaulted a young female protester outside the CANSEC fair in Ottawa in 2024. He didn't even show up to court today for the resumed sentencing hearing. No one is above the law. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'He is not above the law': Swiss man who punched anti-war protester a no-show in Ottawa court | CBC News
The Swiss man who pleaded guilty to punching a 21-year-old protester outside an Ottawa defence conference in 2024 did not show up in court on Monday as he was expected to, leaving the Crown in the cas...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
It is a “substitution process where humanitarian aid intervention substitutes for the prevention and resolution of violent conflict and the protection of civilian populations”. Avoiding the necessary work of ending state complicity, demanding accountability, and political action.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
The “humanitarian alibi” is a process by which governments use the provision of aid under the guise of humanitarianism to obscure their role and responsibilities in the underlying structural violence and oppression faced by the civilian population.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
A dear medical colleague and friend working in Gaza currently sent this photo to me. Canada is sending fortified biscuits into Gaza, but also still sending weapons to Israel to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Don’t be fooled by Canada’s “humanitarian alibi”.
Package of fortified biscuits with World Food Programme and “in partnership with Canada” branding.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Release Dr Hussam Abu Safiya! Contact your Member of Parliament, the Foreign Affairs Minister, and the Prime Minister to call for his immediate release: bit.ly/m/SaveDrHuss...
Poster calling for the release of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Dr. Abu Safiya is my medical colleague, as he is a colleague for all of us who work in healthcare around the world. Our Palestinian healthcare worker colleagues deserve every bit of our solidarity. rabble.ca/human-rights...
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Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya and the role of medical community
"They brought me here to kill me," Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya said to his lawyer after experiencing daily torture from his Israeli captors.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Release Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. Release them all!!! His words to his lawyer during a visit on July 2: “This is the last time you will see me… They brought me here to kill me. I do not see myself leaving here alive. This is the end.”
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Published today in The Lancet Group Regional Health Americas, our article titled “Free speech exceptions in professional medical associations and schools”. Link to full article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Free speech exceptions in professional medical associations and schools
On May 7, 2026, I (YG) attended the Ontario Medical Association (OMA) annual general meeting in Ottawa. Payment of OMA dues is mandatory for physicians practising medicine or conducting health researc...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Pride is a protest. No pride in genocide. Free Palestine. We are all freer when Palestine is free. Solidarity forever with peoples and communities facing oppression anywhere and everywhere.
Yipeng holding a megaphone wearing a keffiyeh and T-shirt that reads, “Pride is a protest, Free Palestine”. Photo of Yipeng from his backside wearing a doctors against genocide backpack with the keffiyeh and pride and Palestinian flags. Standing next to a friend donning the trans flag.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
I have been reflecting on the opening of the exhibit, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present”, at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It is hard to fully put into words my reflections, but I will try. My reflections: yipeng.ca/2026/06/28/t...
Photo of Nakba exhibit at the Canadian museum for human rights. Photo of Nakba exhibit at the Canadian museum for human rights.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“It ensures that Palestinian voices, memories, and truths are acknowledged within Canada’s broader human rights narrative.”
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“Its impact continues to shape generations, families, and lived experiences around the world. Having this story recognized in a national human rights museum is not only long overdue, but essential.”
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“For decades, the Nakba — the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians beginning in 1948 — has been a defining chapter of Palestinian history.”
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Honoured to be in Winnipeg for the opening of the “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” exhibit at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights.
Photo of the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The exhibit titled, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” at the Canadian human rights museum in Winnipeg opens tonight. The online exhibit is now live for viewing: humanrights.ca/exhibition/p...
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Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present | CMHR
A moving exhibit exploring the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians through interactive experiences, tactile elements, video, objects and art.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A report titled, "Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government "Quadcopter" Use in Gaza", prepared by Dr. Mimi Syed and forensic and military specialists, is available here: costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/paper/Quadco...
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Lethal Precision Without Accountability: Israeli Government "Quadcopter" Use in Gaza
This report illustrates that the manner in which the Israeli military uses small tactical drones in Gaza as instruments of “precision warfare” has not reduced civilian harm but has intensified it. Dr....
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The UN Commission of Inquiry report on Palestinian children is available here: www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” - James Baldwin
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The conditions that have been made unliveable in Gaza must be addressed as preventable deaths continue as part of the ongoing genocide in Gaza. We all have a collective responsibility to end the genocide in Gaza.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The genocide against Palestinian children in Gaza must end. The daily bombings, airstrikes, and sniper gunshot fire that specifically target and kill children must end.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Including ending arms transfers to the state of Israel and pushing for unrestricted humanitarian aid and medical supplies to enter Gaza.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
They collectively called for action by all peoples of conscience to act, to pressure states and governments to hold Israel accountable for its crimes against Palestinian children.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
and Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who served in Gaza, and Chris Sidoti, Commissioner for the Independent International Commission of Inquiry.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The event hosted Sara, a Palestinian child, speaking about her experience living under Israeli occupation and the right to a safe childhood and life,
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
which concluded that Palestinian children have been deliberately targeted, killed, and subjected to grave violations at the hands of the Israeli military.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
This morning, I attended a press briefing held by Ms. Rachel on the impact of the genocide and ethnic cleansing on Palestinian children, following the release of the new UN Commission of Inquiry report on Palestinian children,
Screenshot of press briefing with Ms. Rachel, Dr. Mimi Syed, an emergency medicine physician who served in Gaza, and Chris Sidoti, Commissioner for the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
When your values and morals are consistent, and when our work reflects that, we can say that we did our part to build that better world we are all fighting for.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
There is room for being an academic, a researcher, a clinician, a practitioner, and being an organizer and activist. The work we do and the people we choose to surround ourselves with become the fabric of what our lives ultimately is at the end of the day.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Use your privilege when you’ve accessed institutions with power to extract the knowledge and resources for people and communities that deserve your labour and time.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
For all the students and recent graduates, know that your responsibility lies with the people and the planet - not the institutions you find yourselves in.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Public health taught me some of the most basic things that so many people and communities, especially Indigenous communities all over the world, already know. That the collective responsibility for health and wellbeing of all peoples and the planet lies on all of us.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I can’t believe it’s been three years since I graduated from my masters of public health degree, where I studied health inequities and colonialism as a structural determinant of health.
Yipeng wearing a graduation gown and cap standing in front of a library.Yipeng wearing a graduation gown and cap standing under trees.Yipeng wearing a graduation gown and cap standing inside a library.
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yipeng ge 葛义朋 @yipengge.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Everyday people suffer the most from the traumas and harms inflicted by the political elite often making decisions based on state, economic, and geopolitical interests that often conflict with the will of the people.
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