📺 Tune in tonight, as Center Director Jennifer Nuzzo, DrPH will be on @RhodeIslandPBS' Generation Rising at 7:30PM ET to discuss #pandemics .

More information on the show and archived episodes are available here: watch.ripbs.org/show/generatio…

Good look from Lauren Weber at Ohio governor Mike DeWine's approach to advocating for public health policies: using the issue of declining life expectancy and focusing on improving the lives of children — including mental health and distracted driving.
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New commentary from Andrew Stokes and Eugenio Paglino discusses the utility of excess mortality as a way to measure COVID and other health threats, as well as important considerations for an excess mortality model.
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How can public health regain trust? In a word, gradually. Read my new piece in STAT. statnews.com/2024/04/11/3-s…

CDC's 2024-2025 Public Health Data Strategy is out, with goals to strengthen the core of public health data, increase access and advance more open data wth state health agencies.
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Initial estimates from Vermont show that 160,000 visitors traveled through the state for eclipse viewing — that's 26% of the state's total population.
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Measles is bad

At its worse, even for healthy kids, it can cause brains swelling or worse

And of course, its totally preventable

That's why all my kids have gotten all their vaccines

And we should help all parents protect their kids too

Let's make measles disappear again

Congratulations to Professors Alyssa Bilinski and Yashaswini Singh, PhD, named 2024 Salomon Awardees by Brown Research!🏅 Learn about their respective projects at the link, on infectious disease modeling and private equity involvement in physician practices. brown.edu/research/condu…

Loss of #Medicaid coverage among dual-eligibles has long been a major concern — especially since loss is most often due to administrative hassles.

In new JAMA Network Open study, we find some important insights into Medicaid loss among #duals over time.

jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…

Today, the Pandemic Center's Wilmot James joins a discussion on Global Biosecurity in Practice with NikkiRomanik and Dr. Cindy Friedman (Director, CDC Traveler-Based Genomic Surveillance Program) moderated by Alison Snyder at Ginkgo Bioworks's Ferment conference.

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By December 2022, the CDC's National Wastewater Surveillance System was expanded to cover 47% of the US population. A new article by Amy Kirby and colleagues goes into the details of the system and pathogens for which it tests.
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🎉 Congratulations to Professor Seth Berkley '78, '81 MD, winner of a NFID 2024 Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Humanitarian Award for his innovative entrepreneurship and championing of equitable access to vaccines! nfid.org/nfid-announces…

Great to speak with Brown Daily Herald on yesterday's misinformation panel and the importance of Evelyn Pérez-Verdía's community-based work in Florida. Grateful for her partnership with Brown Information Futures Lab!
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Affordable Multiplexed Flu+ COVID tests are making their way to meet people where they need them most - at Home!

Terrific to see these tools getting into households as OTC.

Congrats CorDx on this Flu-COVID OTC FDA authorization

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CHERRY BLOSSOM UPDATE: Japan to gift 250 cherry trees to D.C. to help replace those that are being ripped out this summer for construction work, Japan's prime minister announces at the White House. wtop.com/cherry-blossom…

An important conversation this evening on the work needed to combat misinformation and involve communities. Thanks to Abbie Richards and Evelyn Pérez-Verdía for coming to Brown!

Special day on the hill for #Eclipse2024 . Made new friends who gathered in our little corner of the world. Rob Whiteston brought his camera from Portland & captured the totality image in Cabot #Vt We ate Cabot Creamery Cooperative cheese, venison sausage & cherished this moment in history.

So, in an even stranger turn of events, I have somehow won both the men's and women's March Madness bracket pools for our office. Despite knowing literally nothing about college basketball, I have watched more basketball this month than I have in my entire life up to this point.

The Secretary seems to have very good restaurant tastes during her trips to China.
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Led by Scott Kennedy, a new report with a series of essays from leading scholars in the United States and China shows the challenges and opportunities of scholarly collaboration between our two nations and the importance of maintaining these exchanges.
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