The FDA authorized the new version of the covid vaccine Which prompted my parents to ask me whether they should get their annual covid vaccine now My response? I'd wait until late October So here's my thinking First, I think the summer COVID wave has largely peaked (some

Improving indoor air quality gets no love It’s not sexy It’s coolness factor is not that high But it is one of the most important public health interventions we could be making So am thrilled to see U.S. EPA stepping up to do more

This is great I was taught -- and happily learned -- to use Bee Gees Stayin' Alive tune to play in my head when doing CPR 100 beats per minute And its easy to remember A refresher youtube.com/watch?v=I_izvA…

For years, its been clear climate change represents a major threat to our health And not some time in the distant future -- the effects are starting now So here's your graph of the day From JAMA Trends of Heat-Related Deaths in the US jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

Excited to give the Brown University Convocation this year I will be talking about how we improve the health and well being of people It begins with curiosity And the courage to admit all that we don’t know Oh and I plan to talk about my favorite The New Yorker cartoon

Literally no one who understands the basics of immunology and public health believes this Quite an op-ed in the summer of 2024

With clade I mpox spreading in central & eastern Africa and a new international public health emergency Folks are wondering whether US is prepared to handle new arrival of mpox clade I So here’s how I think about what it means to be prepared And my understanding of where we

This is good

If you care about lifting kids out of poverty Making the expanded child tax credit permanent is the best thing you could do This should be deeply bipartisan Thank you to Rosa DeLauro for your steadfast leadership on this issue

My family & I mourn with the families of Hersh, Carmel, Eden, Alexander, Almog and Ori. May their memory be for a blessing. Hersh, a fellow American, had strong connections to Massachusetts and I was able to meet with his parents, Rachel & Jon. Their courage in the middle of

President Christina Paxson will officially open the 2024-25 AY tomorrow at the 261st Brown University Opening Convocation! Keynote by Dean Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH: “Curiosity, Courage and Conviction: Your Brown Journey to a Healthier World” Details 🔽 #BrownWelcome convocation.brown.edu

Excited to start today a new phase of my career as I become the Chair of ⁦Emory Department of Medicine⁩

My son and his friends asked me to make a video about EEE and West Nile Virus So I made a quick one We see more EEE - eastern equine encephalitis — this time of year This is NOT a huge public health problem But it is absolutely best avoided tiktok.com/t/ZP8J2yxEE/

More than 3,200 students celebrated the start Brown University’s 261st academic year yesterday, welcomed by Dean Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH who urged them to embrace deep inquiry: "It is that commitment to inquiry that makes Brown so special. Magical, actually.” brown.edu/news/2024-09-0…