Katharina T Paul

@katharinatpaul.bsky.social

Associate prof @ University of Vienna - social scientist interested in (digital) health governance & policy; (comparative) vaccination governance PI FWF - Austrian science fund START grant “Value Vacc” 2022-2028

"If routine childhood vaccination declined by 25%, we...projected there would be 26 900 cases...of postmeasles neurological sequelae, 100 cases...of paralytic poliomyelitis, ...5.4 million hospitalizations...due to all infections, and 80 600 deaths...due to all infections."

Trish Greenhalgh@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · last yr.

Someone's modelled the impact of a precipitous decline in vaccination uptake in the USA. TL:DR: millions of avoidable disease cases; hundreds of thousands of deaths over the next decades. HT @duncanrobertson.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

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MEDem@medem.bsky.social · last yr.

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New paper by the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna: 'Why ‘inclusive policymaking’ is needed during crises: COVID-19 and social divisions in Austria' 📃 It explores how and why deepening social divisions around vaccination occurred. 💉 #covid #publichealth #scipol Read here: ⤵️

Why ‘inclusive policymaking’ is needed during crises: COVID-19 and social divisions in Austria

During the COVID-19 pandemic, calls for unity from politicians and public health experts contrasted sharply with the rising social divisions between v…

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Politikwissenschafter*innen der Uni Wien haben untersucht, wie staatliche Maßnahmen während der #COVID-19 Pandemie von den Menschen erlebt wurden. Dabei zeigte sich, dass die Befragten – unabhängig von ihrer Einstellung zum Impfen – Sorge um gesellschaftliche Spaltung und Ausgrenzung hatten. 💉⤵️

Fazit aus der Pandemie: "Krisenpolitik muss alle miteinschließen"

Menschen waren durch Corona-Politik in "sozialen Blasen" und besorgt über gesellschaftliche Spaltung

medienportal.univie.ac.at

NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated. 🧪

Pentagon guts national security program that harnessed social science

Dozens of U.S. academics lose grants from Minerva program for studies related to terrorism, drug trafficking, and other threats

science.org

Es ist einfach beschämend, diese Szenen aus dem Weißen Haus zu sehen - wie ein Land, das Bombardierung von Krankenhäusern, Mord & sexuelle Gewalt in einem Angriffskrieg durch Russland erlebt, als Bittsteller vorgeführt & in hochnäsigem Ton angeblafft wird Ein beschämendes Kapitel der US-Geschichte

Wow. I had no idea the justification for the CDC layoffs was that 'AI can do the work'. Meanwhile "the work" 👉 experts aiding outbreak response, ensuring medical device safety, & preventing disease-carrying animals from entering the U.S. Not sure how 🤖 is going to solve this. Bleak #SnakeOil shit.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

GOP Rep. Rich McCormick at his town hall last night justified the Trump administration firing CDC workers by saying "a lot of the work they do is duplicitous with AI"

Das erste @who.int -Kollaborationszentrum an der Uni Wien startet. Seit 15. Jänner 2025 leiten @robertboehm.bsky.social und @janinakehr.bsky.social das "WHO Collaborating Centre for Social and Behavioural Research in Antimicrobial Resistance". 🦠 🔬 Mehr dazu: ⤵

Erstes WHO-Kollaborationszentrum an der Uni Wien startet

Robert Böhm und Janina Kehr leiten das "WHO Collaborating Centre for Social and Behavioural Research in Antimicrobial Resistance"

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