Alicia Ely Yamin
@aliciay.bsky.social
Human rights lawyer, global health. Social/reproductive justice. Justicia social/reproductiva. 💚 Harvard Law/ SPH and Partners In Health.
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Whopper of the Week: Moms.gov Hides Information Moms Need to Be Healthy | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr. recently launched Moms.gov, a pro-natalist website to "foster healthy pregnancies". The website is the whopper because it is full of misinformation, omissions and deception. It also papers ove...
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Barbarism and hypocrisy at work from fine “Christians.” Tennessee to restrict medical aid for critically ill undocumented children www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
Tennessee to restrict medical aid for critically ill undocumented children
Families have been notified that a Tennessee law aimed at cutting undocumented immigrants off from public benefits will also be applied to ill children.
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Making Argentina Less Safe: The Human Rights Consequences of Leaving WHO - Petrie-Flom Center
On May 22, 2026, the World Health Assembly formally acknowledged Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a process that has now placed the country among the very...
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Making Argentina Less Safe: The Human Rights Consequences of Leaving WHO - Petrie-Flom Center
On May 22, 2026, the World Health Assembly formally acknowledged Argentina’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (WHO), consolidating a process that has now placed the country among the very...
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This will have a TERRIBLE impact on our health workforce and in turn our entire healthcare system: ://www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whopper-week-rfk-jr-silent-trump-demotes-graduate-health-degrees
Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr. Is Silent as Trump Demotes Graduate Health Degrees | Defend Public Health
RFK Jr has been silent as the Trump administration dismantles the federal loan programs which, for decades, ensured Americans could pursue careers in health. A better Secretary of Health would have fo...
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Health law people, how weird is it to investigate off label medication use... which is legal and common.
litzz11@litzz11.bsky.social · 2mo ago"The Trump administration says it is investigating off-label medication use and fraudulent billing. Families say the inquiry is a new way to press hospitals to end the care." GIFT ARTICLE: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...
Geopolitical Votes Wound The World Health Organization: Health For Some, Not All newsletter.genevahealthfiles.com/geopolitical...
Geopolitical Votes Wound The World Health Organization: Health For Some, Not All
Newsletter Edition #351 [The Files In-Depth] Subscribe Now! Readers, The practice of journalism can be an emotionally wrenching process. I have reported on perhaps, ten World Health Assemblies over...
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Viral Outbreaks Show Urgent Need to Rebuild Disease Monitoring, Pandemic Preparedness | Defend Public Health
Recent outbreaks of hantavirus and Ebola, though unlikely to cause a pandemic, highlight the urgent need to repair the Trump administration’s destruction of our pandemic prevention, preparedness and r...
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This is a must read on administration’s politics of cruelty and cynicism: www.defendpublichealth.org/opinion/whop...
Whopper of the Week: Kennedy Denies the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Spending Cuts to Medicaid | Defend Public Health
The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimated that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will reduce federal Medicaid spending by more than $900 billion over a decade. But in a series of congressiona...
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Thank you to @robincogan.bsky.social and her beautiful granddaughter, Nora, for speaking about the importance of vaccines. @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social know these vaccines are safe, effective and they saved our lives! www.nbcnews.com/now/video/gr...
Grandparents advocate for vaccination by sharing childhood illness stories amid skepticism
Grandparents are sharing their stories of what it was like to endure diseases like polio and measles before vaccines. NBC News' Valerie Castro spoke to a member of 'Grandparents for Vaccines' who hope...
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New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too. n.pr/4uJCV6t
The economic chilling effect of Trump's immigration crackdown
New research finds that ICE raids and deportation fears disrupted local economies, reduced work among undocumented immigrants, and may have hurt some U.S.-born workers too.
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The net effect here is to compel women to have more painful abortions.
Garnet Henderson@garnethenderson.com · 3mo agoNEW: The ultraconservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals has blocked the 2023 rule change that allowed for telemedicine prescriptions of the abortion drug mifepristone—nationwide.
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Whopper of the Week: RFK Jr.’s War on Public Health Is Framed as “Restoring Trust” | Defend Public Health
For National Public Health Week, we look at Secretary Kennedy’s claims to be “restoring trust” in public health. Unfortunately, he is doing the opposite and weakening America’s scientific, medical, an...
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Defend Public Health launched its people’s Health Platform! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Public health takes center stage in US midterm campaigns: ‘It’s already been politicized’
Some candidates are making public health a central part of their midterm campaigns amid Trump’s war on science
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Our own Ohio chapter showed up to testify in support of keeping children healthy and safe. To learn more about it, please read Dana Howard's testimony, and see the article in the comment below. #DefendPublicHealth #GetVaccinated #HealthcareForAll
The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮💨 Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝 3,000+ events this Saturday. Choose your side. March 28. #NoKings2026
Vaccines were once so uncontroversial that McDonald’s restaurants put the childhood immunization schedule on their tray liners. Now, as the U.S. government sows doubt, preventable diseases could come roaring back.
How Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Vaccine Agenda Risks a Resurgence of Deadly Childhood Plagues
The health secretary is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back...
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Defend Public Health Applauds Injunction Against RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Advisors | Defend Public Health
Defend Public Health applauded today’s decision by U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy to issue an injunction blocking recent changes to the schedule of recommended vaccines issued recently by the Adv...
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I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Boston!!” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...
NO KINGS Boston!! · Mobilize
We’re coming together on **Saturday, March 28** to declare: # We the People are We the Powerful. ## And we will not stand for an authoritarian takeover of the United States. We’re fighting against...
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Measles is a very serious and unpredictable infectious disease; spreads in lightening speed to the unvaccinated that includes infants (too young to be vaccinated) and immunocompromised. Getting vaccinated=CARING about each other ❤️💙 @gparents4vaccines.bsky.social ncnewsline.com/2026/02/02/n...
Need another reason to vaccinate against measles? The virus can cause immune amnesia. • NC Newsline
A study by Harvard Medical School researchers found that measles can erase from 11% to 73% of the different antibodies that previously made an individual immune to other illnesses.
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Detentions of adults/children in what has been reported as inhumane conditions with insufficient medical care amidst a national measles outbreak will worsen ongoing catastrophe. Intervention needed. Dilley Center, San Antonio, Texas. news4sanantonio.com/news/local/m...
Measles outbreak at Texas immigration detention facility confirmed by DHS officials
SAN ANTONIO - Federal officials have confirmed a Measles Outbreak at an Texas immigration detention facility.On Sunday, officials with the Department of Homelan
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It is our duty not to become numb or indifferent to the suffering this administration is causing, here and abroad: prismreports.org/2026/01/29/g...
Through expanded ‘global gag rule,’ Trump administration exports anti-abortion, anti-trans policies
The new global gag rule bars organizations receiving U.S. foreign aid from providing or even discussing abortions, gender identity, or DEI
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Escribí esta columna antes del asesinato de Alex Pretti: Desde Minneapolis a Boston: Reflexiones sobre el año en que el país se desmoronó por Alicia Ely Yamin (aliciay.bsky.social) www.lacritica.ar/post/desde-m...
Alicia Ely Yamin (@aliciay.bsky.social)
Human rights lawyer, global health. Social/reproductive justice. Justicia social/reproductiva. 💚 Harvard Law/ SPH and Partners In Health.
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