Patrick Fafard
@pfafard.bsky.social
Professor Emeritus/ Visiting Professor Graduate School of Public & International Affairs and Chair in Science Diplomacy, University of Ottawa. Research Director, Global Strategy Lab, York/UOttawa .
This is just the one step before what happened with Japanese concentration camps in the US
Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 16h agoThese are people who legally entered this country and now, because of ancestry and a conspiracy theory pushed by an aspiring politician, are being pursued by the government and fitted with special monitoring devices. This should remind of the darkest events in history.
“Socialism is a scareword they have hurled at every advance the people have made… socialism is their name for most anything that helps the people. 1952. Truman. This is how stale their desperate fearmongering is. cc: @MarshaBlackburn
Aging! Should you Accept your Fate? | Featuring Dr. Damien Contandriopoulos, w/ hosts Ivy Bourgeault and Steven Lewis. healthpolicyoffscript.podbean.com/e/aging-shou... via @longwoods.bsky.social
Aging! Should you Accept your Fate? | Featuring Dr. Damien Contandriopoulos | Health Policy Off Script Podcast
We are all aging. We know what we want, we know what we need, but does the system have the resources or will power to support us? This episode features Dr. Damien Contandriopoulos from the School of N...
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Hey you! 🫵 Come join us at GSL’s AMR Policy Accelerator! We're #hiring a researcher who's excited about using quantitative research and evidence to understand what drives antimicrobial resistance and measure the impact of interventions to address it➡️ www.globalstrategylab.org/jobs/researc...
Trump is signing an executive order today recommending that the MMR vaccine be separated into separate vaccines. There is no scientific basis for this recommendation. Separate measles, mumps and rubella vaccines are generally not available in the U.S. Vaccines do not cause autism.
Trump to sign executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots
President Donald Trump will sign an executive order calling for spacing out childhood vaccines into separate medical visits and splitting the combined measles, mumps and rubella vaccine into three dif...
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Governments Are Gambling with Canadians’ Well-Being. In Ontario, which has allowed private online betting operators since 2022, the average player loses almost $4,000 a year, by Renze Nauta thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... via @thetyee.ca
Governments Are Gambling with Canadians’ Well-Being | The Tyee
In Ontario, which has allowed private online betting operators since 2022, the average player loses almost $4,000 a year.
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Surprisingly, a call ⬇️ for an inquiry into lessons we must learn from COVID-19. An excellent idea! But not one the Carney government will pursue. Not with the battle with Trump & with a healthy lead in the polls. But what if Carney feels a need to appeal to the centre-left? One can dream …
The lingering questions of the pandemic that demand answers
Canada has yet to train a spotlight on the response to the biggest health crisis of our time
theglobeandmail.com
Ignorance + lies + a deep well of hate & spite...👇 The Real Reason Rand Paul Put a DOJ Target on Anthony Fauci’s Back slate.com/news-and-pol... by @shirinali.bsky.social This is simply "Republicans attempting to replicate Trump’s playbook: targeting a longtime foe simply out of spite..."
The Real Reason Rand Paul Put a DOJ Target on Anthony Fauci’s Back
Dr. Anthony Fauci is a name most Americans probably didn’t think they would have to hear about again.
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What history remembers is the seizure of Austria & Czech, persecution of Jews, the violent end of democracy. But reporting about Hitler in the 1930s was heavily devoted to oversized neoclassical monuments, tacky urban plans, frilly uniforms, decorations, flags etc. that obsessed him. Just a reminder
Gr8 but troubling piece in @bmj.com today reflecting on the broad MAGA damage to public health - beyond Dr Fauci who does not deserve this vile treatment
Fauci’s Senate hearing riled up the MAGA base—but at the cost of damaging public health
The vilification of Anthony Fauci by Senate Republicans will erode trust in science, curtail international research collaborations, and deter scientists and health experts from entering public service...
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RFK Jr's reign is a real-time expirement: What happens when you smash the scientific regulatory state? (It's not going well.) www.thestar.com/opinion/star...
Justin Ling: RFK Jr. promised to make America healthy again. Instead, he’s given America explosive diarrhea
If nothing else, the cyclosporiasis catastrophe has given Canadians further motivation to boycott U.S. goods.
thestar.com
Le @nytimes.com a publié un texte sur mon parcours et sur mes premiers mois comme scientifique en chef du Québec. Je me réjouis de l'intérêt international pour notre modèle québécois unique qui rapproche recherche et décision publique. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/hv5a5ev6
"You can't understand someone until you've walked a mile in their shoes." @danielcarelli.bsky.social, from Chalmers University of Technology, expresses how every nation is in the same boat when it comes to tackling #AntimicrobialResistance Listen here: www.globalstrategylab.org/resources/ne...
"Virginia Department of Health Identifies a Locally Acquired Case of #Dengue Virus Infection in a Northern Virginia Resident" 🦟 www.vdh.virginia.gov/clinicians/c...
There is a logic to Coyne's argument. But his solution would come at a huge cost. One of Canada's biggest challenges is that we have 14 separate health systems that don't coordinate or cooperate well. Coyne's solution would make this worse. 1/3 www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Don’t give the provinces more money for health, give them more room to raise it themselves
To save health care, stopping the intergovernmental blame game should be the first step
theglobeandmail.com
Attention scholars of IR: check out the BMJ as a source for analysis of contemporary geopolitics … ( (Now, how to encourage global health scholars to read IR journals…)
The BMJ@bmj.com · 2w agoThe #GlobalHealth reform agenda has made strides – but has its limits. Read why a future multipolar world is an illusion. NEW in The BMJ: https://bit.ly/3Toq2kY Part of the series on the Geopolitics of Global Health: https://bit.ly/44OGptD
Peter Jones argues the term 'middle powers' leads to misty-eyed nostalgia and national mythology He argues we need another term that describes what we're really trying to do - club together with other small but wealthy nations to hedge against the US thewalrus.ca/canada-middl...
Canada Keeps Calling Itself a Middle Power. It Isn’t | The Walrus
The idea once reflected geopolitical reality. Today it’s mostly a comforting illusion
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$80 billion a year won’t save Medicare. $10 billion might. More and more people are paying out of pocket to get prompt primary care, diagnostic imaging, and various types of surgery, by Steven Lewis thestarphoenix.com/opinion/op-e...
Lewis: $80 billion a year won’t save Medicare. $10 billion might.
More and more people are paying out of pocket to get prompt primary care, diagnostic imaging, and various types of surgery.
thestarphoenix.com
With the Fauci hearing going as expected, read our free book, Coronavirus Politics! Pretty clear how little the US Fed govt did during early stages compared to other countries- lack of central messaging and action under Trump likely caused significant harm. That’s down to Trump, not Fauci.
Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19 | JSTOR
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of…
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Good thread on some of the challenges of public health advice during a pandemic emergency. The new question is how to also manage the politicization and the polarization.
Ann Keller@annck.bsky.social · 2w agoAs an expert in pandemic response, I find myself astounded that the media and much of the public treated learning as if it was failure. Experts aren't omniscient. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...
Fauci didn't close your child's school. Those decisions were made by local officials. He didn't require your employer to vaccinate you. He didn't write nursing home visitation policies. He didn't make every decision that shaped your pandemic experience.
Alas, this may not tell is very much since spending more on health (public or private) does not necessarily lead to better health outcomes.
Erika Shaker@ershaker.bsky.social · 2w agowww.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... ‘Canada ranks 28 out of 35 OECD countries for its lower share of public spending on health care, behind 27 other countries with universal health care systems’ @alonghurst.bsky.social @policyalternatives.ca
50% of ICU patients in a Dhaka hospital acquired #AMR, leading to >90% mortality among confirmed infections. Targeted #IPC measures in the NICU slashed bloodstream infections by 86% Ref: Adult ICU study: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... NICU intervention study: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Difficult-to-treat resistant Gram-negative bacteria and genomic resemblances between colonization and infection among patients in an intensive care unit of a tertiary care hospital in Bangladesh | Mic...
This study underscores the growing threat posed by difficult-to-treat resistant Gram-negative bacteria (DTR-GNB) in intensive care units. Nearly half of critically ill patients were colonized, with a ...
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Terrible title assigned to an otherwise thoughtful piece, in which my friend Anna Jahn tries to identify some options for universities navigating AI. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...
Opinion: Universities should stop treating AI as a cheating problem
Educational leaders need to start creating a mixed model that includes both deep learning and instruction on AI tools
theglobeandmail.com
Last week, I spoke to a powerful tech visionary who insisted we cut Elon slack cause “he’s very overtired” & gets crud in his feed, & his people are working to fix his feed so he gets better stuff & besides he truly believes he lives in a simulation & we aren’t real. Have barely slept since.😬😬
Lou Mannheim@loumannheim87.bsky.social · 3w agoPretty much.
Whether you’re a policymaker, work at an international organization, or research AMR, our #OneHealth governance scoping review findings are for you. Short on time? This summary lays out what we found and what it means in a 10-minute read. www.globalstrategylab.org/resources/su...
Summary: Implementing One Health governance approaches to mitigate antimicrobial resistance across institutional, social, economic and political contexts: a scoping review - Global Strategy Lab
To address AMR, we must take a One Health approach, which promotes collaboration across the human, animal, plant, and environmental health sectors. Specifically, One Health governance is the structure...
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An important overview of the process that led to the Ottawa Charter on health promotion, its effects, and the challenge of analyzing and actually doing "health public policy". #OttawaCharter
Evelyne de Leeuw@evdle.bsky.social · 3w agoBetter late than never: listen and read my views on the past and future of health promotion. vimeo.com/1213217598?s... @cphjournal.bsky.social @obshealth.bsky.social @who.int @umontreal-en.bsky.social
Better late than never: listen and read my views on the past and future of health promotion. vimeo.com/1213217598?s... @cphjournal.bsky.social @obshealth.bsky.social @who.int @umontreal-en.bsky.social
Past, present and future of health promotion - did we ever deliver the Ottawa Charter?
For the Australian Health Promotion Association I was part of a celebration of 4 decades of the Ottawa Charter. In this presentation I show that this landmark approach to 'a new public health' was bot...
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‘“civilizational suicidal empathy,” i.e. the idea that if we don’t quickly shrug off all squishy humanitarian sentiments, the West will perish. The USAID cuts, then, were a dry run for the much larger abandonment of responsibility for the civilizational dead weight that may be necessary’
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 3w agoWhen Elon Musk says "zero" children died in Africa from his DOGE cuts, he really means zero children died who are *worthy of any concern.* It's vile coded signaling to his global fascist audience. From me and @polphilpod.bsky.social, a deep dive into Musk's fascism: newrepublic.com/article/2135...
