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Amanda M. Simanek (she/her)

@msimanek.bsky.social

Assoc Prof of Epi, Chicago Med School; Director, Center for Health Equity Research, @rfuniversity.bsky.social. Sociostructural drivers of health, social needs in healthcare, and info consumption and health. | Founding member @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social.

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Amanda M. Simanek (she/her)@msimanek.bsky.social · last yr.

Join me for the ASTHO INSPIRE: Readiness Webinar - Communicating About Data and Surveillance During Infectious Disease Emergencies, where I will share @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social public health comms tips. For more info, check out Public Health Review morning edition: share.google/czPmXOisOITj....

941: Integration of AI, Effective Public Health Comms

Dr. Jay Varma, physician and epidemiologist with the Community Healthcare Network, describes the importance of embracing new AI technologies in public health; Dr. A…

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Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

Just in: NIH staff have been instructed to REINSTATE these ~900 grants to comply with the court order, per sources. This comes after staff were also directed to cease any further terminations. You can see the lists grants to be reinstated in my post below.

Max Kozlov@maxkozlov.bsky.social · last yr.

The judge intends to limit his order to universities in the plaintiff states (CA, MD, WA, AZ, CO, DE, HI, MA, MN, NV, NJ, NM, NY, OR, RI, WI), members of the plaintiff orgs (APHA, UAW), and the researchers named directly, he said today. His written opinion will come in the coming days.

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · last yr.

In a swift response to this morning's hearing, District Court Judge William G. Young has just ruled that the directives that led to 100s of grant terminations at the NIH are arbitrary and capricious. The directives + subsequent terminations are illegal, he said. "They are of no force and effect."

Annie Waldman@anniewaldman.bsky.social · last yr.

Happening this morning: A key hearing in the cases challenging the NIH grant terminations. Plaintiffs, including multiple state AGs + researchers, are requesting an injunction to reverse the terminations. Our reporting has tracked what's at stake: projects.propublica.org/nih-cuts-res...

Kyle Cheney@kyledcheney.bsky.social · last yr.

BREAKING: A federal judge in Massachusetts (the Reagan-appointed William Young) has declared the Trump administration's cuts to NIH grants — ostensibly over Trump's EOs on gender ideology and DEI — are "illegal" and "void." He's ordering many grants restored.

Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 2y ago

It's only the end of March but already 2025 has logged more #measles cases than all but 2 other years since the US achieved measles elimination status in 2000. #CDC reported there'd been 483 confirmed cases in 19 states as of 3/27. Likely out of date, with TX reporting Friday its count has hit 400

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Those Nerdy Girls@thosenerdygirls.bsky.social · 2y ago

1/ We are thrilled to announce that Nerdy Girls Dr. Amanda Simanek @msimanek.bsky.social, Dr. Roopa Seshadri, and Gayle Mendoza, MPH, BSN, RN will be presenting at the national annual meeting of the Association of Public Health Laboratories on March 25! #publichealth

APHL@aphl.org · 2y ago

Get ready for an engaging session at #IDLabCon with Those Nerdy Girls! Join us as they break down the latest in infectious disease communication and combating misinformation. Don’t miss this must-attend session in Pasadena in March! Register now: buff.ly/4ihy8CX

WHO@who.int · 2y ago

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.

If you don’t get your child vaccinated against measles, it can put them at a high risk of this serious infection, which can lead to severe complications or even death. Make sure your child’s measles vaccination is up to date.
Amanda M. Simanek (she/her)@msimanek.bsky.social · 2y ago

Looking forward to presenting at #IDLabCon with some other @thosenerdygirls.bsky.social in 2 weeks! We will cover: Why scicomm is necessary How we became scicommers Ways you can too Thanks @aphl.org!

APHL@aphl.org · 2y ago

Get ready for an engaging session at #IDLabCon with Those Nerdy Girls! Join us as they break down the latest in infectious disease communication and combating misinformation. Don’t miss this must-attend session in Pasadena in March! Register now: buff.ly/4ihy8CX

IDPH | Illinois Department of Public Health@idph.bsky.social · 2y ago

Measles is serious and extremely contagious. So contagious that if one person has it, up to 90% of the people close to that person who are not immune will also become infected. The good news: It's preventable. The MMR shot is safe, effective, and your best protection against measles.

NBC News@nbcnews.com · 2y ago

BREAKING: A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States. nbcnews.app.link/paXT0Dg4iRb

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: The NIH summer internship program (SIP) has been officially cancelled, across all institutes. It’s a sad loss for the brightest science students in America, for American science, and for future cures for diseases like cancer and Alzheimer’s. 🧪 1/

Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪@altnih4science.bsky.social · 2y ago

NIDA has announced it, but all the NIH summer internship programs are likely cancelled. Sorry college students interested in STEM jobs, sorry high school students looking at science 🧪 careers. Trump and Musk are cancelling your futures.

Caitlin Rivers@cmyeaton.bsky.social · 2y ago

Just yesterday while on PBS News Hour I said that I will have confidence that federal vaccine policy is uncompromised as long as the external advisory committees continue to meet. Now meetings for both VRBPAC and ACIP have been cancelled. I don't like this.

Caitlin Rivers@cmyeaton.bsky.social · 2y ago

I joined PBS News Hour to discuss the measles outbreak in Texas and vaccine hesitancy. My comments build on a point I made in a NYT essay: vaccine hesitancy and resulting outbreaks are a serious problem. But we should also remember that vaccines are popular, actually! www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Nature@nature.com · 2y ago

Almost all grant-review meetings under Trump 2.0 remain suspended at the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), preventing the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research from spending much of its US$47 billion annual budget. https://go.nature.com/4gM6oW4

Revealed: NIH research grants still frozen despite lawsuits challenging Trump order

The Trump administration is exploiting a loophole to keep a funding freeze in place, leaving researchers in limbo.

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Jason L. Schwartz@jasonlschwartz.bsky.social · 2y ago

If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

A Half-Century of Prevention — The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices | NEJM

In 1964, after a vaccination program against polio, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis began, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices was created to advise the U.S. government on vaccinati...

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Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2y ago

“Flu has been brutal this season. The CDC estimates at least 24 million illnesses, 310,000 hospitalizations, and 13,000 deaths from the flu since the start of October… But CDC analyses that would inform people about these situations are delayed, and the CDC has cut off communication with doctors”

Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate | CNN

Sonya Stokes, an emergency room physician in the San Francisco Bay Area, braces herself for a daily deluge of patients sick with coughs, soreness, fevers, vomiting, and other flu-like symptoms.

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BK. Titanji@boghuma.bsky.social · 2y ago

I present to you all the notice that now is displayed on the CDC HIV prevention page. Again - In these times, find a healthcare provider you trust, who follows evidence based practice grounded in science. Follow trusted sources of information.

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Helen Branswell 🇨🇦@helenbranswell.bsky.social · 2y ago

Doing the unthinkable: The deep cuts to the #CDC's workforce today are expected to decimate the Epidemic Intelligence Service, a program that has trained public health rapid responders for decades. Envy of the world. Poof! www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/t...

CDC cuts expected to devastate Epidemic Intelligence Service, a ‘crown jewel’ of public health

Members of the CDC's Epidemic Intelligence Service were warned Friday that many of them were about to be fired

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