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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10h

As the world steadily swings toward more nationalism, authoritarianism, and isolationism, global health can only be saved when we save democracy and start caring about human rights and our shared humanity

www.cell.com/med/fulltext...

Q&A with Madhukar Pai

Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, is the inaugural chair, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Canada...

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Jocalyn Clark @jocalynclark.bsky.social · 12h

🚨 Check out our new @bmj.com Collection on #WomensHealth #Innovation

www.bmj.com/collections/...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

With every stupid action, they are definitely making infectious diseases great again

Cartoon of RFK Jr wearing a red MAGA hat which says “Make Infectious Diseases Great Again”

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Just like they killed USAID, they are now killing CDC

“CDC is over. It was killed”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 17h

Halloween 🎃 costume for this year:

The Anti-Science, Anti-Vaccine, Grifter Pretending to be a Leader

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Global health and development, as we knew it, are dead. What can arise from its ashes?

My Q&A in @cellpress.bsky.social journal Med @cp-med.bsky.social

www.cell.com/med/fulltext...

Q&A with Madhukar Pai

Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, is the inaugural chair, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Canada...

www.cell.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Are academic journals truly inclusive?

This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social

wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

With every stupid action, they are definitely making infectious diseases great again

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/c...

"CDC is over": RFK Jr. lays off over 1,000 employees in Friday night massacre

Amid the ongoing shutdown, the HHS secretary wiped out entire offices that investigate disease outbreaks, manage infectious disease responses and collect data.

www.msnbc.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Just like they killed USAID, they are now killing CDC

“CDC is over. It was killed”

Dr. Demetre Daskalakis, former director of the CDC’s National Center on Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Our new piece in @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social is about integrating tuberculosis services into primary care

@petraheitkamp.bsky.social @yoganp.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integration of tuberculosis services within primary health care: converting challenges into opportunities

www.sciencedirect.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Firing measles experts in the midst of a measles outbreak seems highly logical and smart

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 1d

The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up the top two leaders of the federal measles response team, even as the nation grapples with the most cases recorded since 2000, when measles was declared eliminated in the U.S.

C.D.C. Layoffs Included 2 Top Measles Experts Amid Rising Cases

Scientists who focused on other infectious diseases, like an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, also were let go.

nyti.ms

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

So, the President is worthy of preventive health screenings and immunizations, but the people are not??

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Global health and development, as we knew it, are dead. What can arise from its ashes?

My Q&A in @cellpress.bsky.social journal Med @cp-med.bsky.social

www.cell.com/med/fulltext...

Q&A with Madhukar Pai

Professor Madhukar Pai, MD, PhD, FCAHS, FRSC, is the inaugural chair, Department of Global and Public Health at the McGill School of Population and Global Health in Montreal, Canada. He holds a Canada...

www.cell.com

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Gunilla Källenius @gunkal.bsky.social · 2d

Welcome!

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to visit Sweden for the first time next week & speak at @ki.se

news.ki.se/calendar/sym...

Symposia on Global Health and Tuberculosis

KI's Network for Tuberculosis Research (KI-NET4TB) invites you to A Symposium on Global Health and Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge with approximately 25% of the global pop...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to visit Sweden for the first time next week & speak at @ki.se

news.ki.se/calendar/sym...

Symposia on Global Health and Tuberculosis

KI's Network for Tuberculosis Research (KI-NET4TB) invites you to A Symposium on Global Health and Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge with approximately 25% of the global pop...

news.ki.se

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Our new piece in @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social is about integrating tuberculosis services into primary care

@petraheitkamp.bsky.social @yoganp.bsky.social

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Integration of tuberculosis services within primary health care: converting challenges into opportunities

www.sciencedirect.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Are academic journals truly inclusive?

This a great chance to learn from editors like @ckyobutungi.bsky.social @plosglobalpublichealth.org & @briandavidearp.bsky.social

wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

So, the President is worthy of preventive health screenings and immunizations, but the people are not??

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

Full frontal attack on public health

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 2d

FULL STORY HERE: Emails began flooding CDC inboxes late Friday night announcing dozens of layoffs. HR people brought back from furlough to oversee the RIFs. Disease detectives, entire Washington office, global health, injury prevention, MMWR staff among those hit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials

www.nytimes.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

“The growing movement around women’s health innovation is to be welcomed. But to be genuinely transformative, it must be political”

@jocalynclark.bsky.social @bmj.com

www.bmj.com/content/390/...

Upending women’s health

This year is unleashing a series of devastating blows to women’s health worldwide. Cuts to foreign aid.1 Denial of abortion access and reproductive autonomy (doi:10.1136/bmj.r459).2 Targeted attacks o...

www.bmj.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Excited to visit Sweden for the first time next week & speak at @ki.se

news.ki.se/calendar/sym...

Symposia on Global Health and Tuberculosis

KI's Network for Tuberculosis Research (KI-NET4TB) invites you to A Symposium on Global Health and Tuberculosis. Tuberculosis remains a global health challenge with approximately 25% of the global pop...

news.ki.se

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

Immigrant scientists make a massive contribution wherever they go

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 2d

So grateful to the inspiring @courtghoward.bsky.social for her amazing 3 hour session on climate change and health in our global health course @mcgill.ca

Thanks 🙏🏽 a ton, Courtney!!

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