Alongside local, regional, & international partners, GEN-PHC is committed to growing family medicine & strengthening primary health care in Tanzania & beyond. 📖 Read the paper: www.frontiersin.org/journals/med... #FamilyMedicine #PrimaryHealthCare #PHC #UHC #HealthSystemStrengthening #GlobalHealth

Frontiers | Introducing family medicine in Tanzania: strengthening primary health care through the 5 Cs—advocacy through a deliberative dialogue symposium-a case study of multinational academic collab...

Tanzania is currently advancing universal health coverage (UHC) through the 2026 launch of its Universal Health Insurance scheme, creating a critical policy ...

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We intentionally excluded strict prioritizations from this global framework. The final product provides a scaffold that can be adapted to specific regional priorities, helping us identify gaps in our family medicine faculty teams & build contextualized interventions. doi.org/10.4102/phcf...

@genphc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

GEN-PHC is excited to share our newest publication: a globally-informed "common core" framework for family medicine faculty development. 👉 Read it here: doi.org/10.4102/phcf... 🌍 Learn more about GEN-PHC: globalhealthcenter.umn.edu/genphc #MedEd #FamMed #PrimaryCare # Primary Care Research

"The core problem is a mismatch between what training programs produce & what the automation-era labor market will reward" #MedicalEducation bit.ly/4dpJ01Y

"This hidden curriculum, spoken through silence, revealed the unknown unknowns of patient care: the subtleties of presence, restraint, and empathy that every patient teaches but no textbook names." A beautiful & evocative essay in @fammedjournal.bsky.social journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

💯 Vanessa Kerry @seedglobalhealth.bsky.social: we must resist global health approaches that create "artificial trade-offs: prioritize pandemics or primary care, climate resilience or maternal health...inseparable components of a functioning health system" www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/sove...

Sovereignty vs. Multilateralism Is the Wrong Debate in Global Health | Think Global Health

Seed Global Health CEO: countries need a global health model where sovereignty sets the agenda and multilateralism enables it

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Family medicine delivers high quality primary care to help achieve the goal of universal health coverage #PHCforUHC @woncaworld.bsky.social

@genphc.bsky.social · 7mo ago

GEN-PHC was honored to collaborate on this important symposium addressing the integration of family medicine into the Tanzanian health system. Family docs lead primary care teams & deliver high quality clinical care to ensure optimal outcomes for the greatest number at the lowest cost bit.ly/4kFMeQW

By the end of 2025, US total spending on halloween candy surpassed US total spending on humanitarian aid.

Council on Foreign Relations@cfr.org · 9mo ago

The world faces unresolved conflicts, growing climate crises, attacks on aid workers, two famines, and diminishing political will—along with significant aid cuts. Altogether, 2025 has earned a grim new superlative: the worst humanitarian year on record, argues Sam Vigersky.

"A more balanced global evidence base is essential to ensure that primary care innovations are applicable, sustainable, and equitable worldwide." Proud to have written this w/colleagues Drs. Garcia-Huidobro, Cuba, Prasad, Adams, @shailey.bsky.social @klausvonp.bsky.social & @pilarastier.bsky.social

The Lancet Primary Care@lancetprimarycare.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🆕 "The dominance of research... from mostly high-income countries means that much of the knowledge shaping primary care policy and practice reflects the priorities, populations, and health system structures of wealthier regions [limiting] the knowledge translation to the different contexts" ...

Sharing the recording of our Grand Rounds presentation, for those who were unable to join us live: "From Global Health to Globalism - Evaluating Approaches to Global Engagement" with @shailey.bsky.social mediaspace.umn.edu/media/t/1_ds... #medsky #PublicHealth #AcademicSky

An excellent summary of current US political discourse: a game of rock paper scissors from hell in which some approaches temporarily triumph, & meaning too often loses. American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming / A theory of political speech under the second Trump presidency

sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 11mo ago

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

An incredible public health success story.

The American Academy of Pediatrics@ameracadpeds.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Peanut allergies in children ages 0-3 declined 27.2% after a 2015 study resulted in guidance recommending the introduction of peanut products in infancy among children. More from Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez in the New York Times: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/20/w...

Proud of my colleague Katie Loth for writing and sharing this important essay - when we stop measuring food insecurity, that doesn't make the problem go away. www.minnpost.com/community-vo...

Shutting down food insecurity report only serves to hide hunger

The USDA’s cancellation of its annual food insecurity report leaves families — and especially children — at risk of being overlooked.

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"we spent more than 100 years working at the C.D.C...We served under multiple Republican and Democratic administrations...we did not always agree with our leaders, but they never gave us reason to doubt that they would rely on data-driven insights for our protection." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

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RFK Jr. has now officially stated that he will dismantle the United States Preventive ServicesTask Force (USPSTF). This is an independent body of expert scientists who volunteer their time to review data and provide guidance to Americans on important things like cancer screenings.

Exclusive | RFK Jr. to Oust Advisory Panel on Cancer Screenings, HIV Prevention Drugs

The task force determines which preventive services insurers must cover at no cost to patients.

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Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

"In these first few months after arrival, I have become, in many ways, an intern again." Esther Johnston, MD, MPH (@esthermjohnston.bsky.social) reflects on the challenges and opportunities that come with professional change. "Everything Old Is New Again": journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

A tribute to colleagues who have been so supportive as I learned the ropes in a new place this year, & to all the learners who juggle the cognitive load of trying to master new systems while bringing their best selves to their patients encounters, each & every day: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

The call for abstracts is now open for the North America Conference to End Race Based Medicine, which will be FREE to attend and held in Detroit October 17-18, 2025. Submissions are encouraged from students, residents, fellows and faculty from all disciplines. #academicsky #medsky bit.ly/NACERM2025

Concerning on so many levels: that peer reviewers are farming out a critical role in ensuring academic integrity to AI (recognizing the broken system of academic publishing that => overloaded peer reviewers) & that this shortcut is so easily subverted. #Academicsky asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec...

'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers

Instructions in preprints from 14 universities highlight controversy on AI in peer review

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An excellent article by Martin Msukwa and Isaac Ntwiga of @seedglobalhealth.bsky.social summarizing some of the key barriers to recruitment and retention of health care workers in countries with HCW shortages, and needed policy solutions. www.europesays.com/2147801/

Time To Rethink Global Health Recruitment As Africa’s Health Workers Deserve Better - EUROPE SAYS

When Dr Biira* qualified as doctor in Uganda, she was hopeful about her future. Instead, she faced a common barrier: no job. Despite a huge shortage of

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The MAHA report, promoted by RFK Jr. as “gold-standard science,” is riddled with bogus citations: ⭐️ 7 studies don’t exist — one author: “The paper cited is not a real paper.” ⭐️ Key conclusions misquoted ⭐️ One study exists only in the report ⭐️ Dozens more have broken links #BlueSky #Medasky #SciSky

In this editorial, a group of family medicine global health practitioners based in South Africa, India, and the United States collectively reflect on the question, “What should lie at the heart of global health partnerships in family medicine?” journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

May's special global health issue of Family Medicine attracted submissions from around the world, reflecting collaborations and partnerships between family physicians and colleagues. Read the editorial from Cindy Haq, MD, and Esther Johnston, MD, MPH: journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

Interest in training opportunities and ethical engagement in global health among medical trainees continues to increase. Preparation activities and formal curriculum for trainees traveling for international rotations vary widely across programs: journals.stfm.org/primer/2025/...

9/ This isn't about whether you need a booster. It’s about how vaccine decisions are made—and who gets to make them. Americans deserve public health policy grounded in evidence, transparency, and debate—not declarations from two contrarians with an agenda.

Jennifer Savran Kelly@jsavrankelly.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm thankful that my congregation signed on as a whole to Jews for Food Aid for Gaza. If you're Jewish, please consider signing and pass it on. "If there is a hungry person one must feed them!" —Shulchan Aruch www.foodaidforgaza.org

RFK Jr. celebrated on Sunday by taking shirtless selfies and swimming in an E. coli-ridden, sewage-infested creek where swimming, notably, has been banned by the National Park Service, thanks to the whole...poop water issue.

RFK Jr. Took His Grandkids for a Dip in a Sewage-Contaminated Creek For Mother’s Day

The National Park Service bans swimming in Rock Creek due to “high levels of bacteria.”

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I think a lot about what Carl Sagan said in one of his final interviews.

Deeply proud to have served as a guest editor of this special global issue of Family Medicine; & grateful to my colleagues who contributed their writing & research, & served as peer reviewers. May we never stop engaging as a global community in our shared learning. journals.stfm.org/familymedici...

Cynthia Haq, MD | Esther M. Johnston, MD, MPH

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