Nsikan Akpan, PhD
@MoNscience
Highly melanated. Managing Editor, @ThinkGlobalHlth/@CFR_org. BSky: http://monscience.bsky.social Past: WNYC, NatGeo, PBS NewsHour | PhD pathobiologist | YNWA
Whoa: Juul gets FDA’s OK to keep selling tobacco and menthol e-cigarette apnews.com/article/juul-v…
The Senate's new bill would cut $1 trillion from Medicaid, causing 10+ million people to lose insurance. Cancer patients are one group set to suffer (and needlessly die) the most. 1 in 10 adults and 1 in 3 children with cancer depend on Medicaid. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/cancer…
Trump says U.S. dropped a "full payload of bombs" on Fordow nuclear site in Iran
Recent Canadian wildfires are record-breaking – and will threaten US air quality for days - Eric Holthaus / The Guardian If forecasts hold, the Midwest could experience degraded air quality tonight. NY could see the same to a lesser degree on Saturday theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
The World Health Assembly has adopted the Pandemic Agreement. The catch: The treaty will not be signed, ratified, nor put into force until member states negotiate an annex section about Pathogen Access and Benefit Sharing (PABS). thinkglobalhealth.org/article/fate-u…
A truly historic evening at the #WHA78: the #PandemicAccord resolution was approved in Committee A with 124 in favour, 0 against and 11 abstentions. The final step: adoption in plenary tomorrow morning. My thanks once again to @WHO Member States for choosing to keep the world…
The new U.S. executive order on pharmaceutical MFN pricing is (thankfully) limited to MFN reference pricing to high-income countries. But it risks reigniting MFN demands from middle-income countries, which could go beyond their own income group. Any cascading of MFN could…
I think @angie_rasmussen doesn’t get enough credit for the education and mentoring role she plays here on twitter, offering to help explain important virology concepts to those who do not share that expertise. 👏🏆🙏
The vaccine is made with 4 LPAIs. But it was tested with reconstructed 1918 and H2N7, H6N1, H7N1, & H10N7 reassortants with virulence-increasing HA & PB2 E627K, all of which were made via GOF. Happy to explain more if you don't understand the virology. x.com/angie_rasmusse…
USAID leadership sent out guidance to country missions abroad which highlighted 24 “central awards to support global health programming” that will continue under the agency’s “narrower focus.” ✍️ : Sara Jerving / Devex devex.com/news/what-s-in…
Per source, NIH has been instructed to hold off from issuing ALL awards to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, and Northwestern (including med schools) Agency staff have also been instructed to not speak about this funding freeze to grantees and applicants
EcoHealth Alliance, the research nonprofit entangled in the COVID origins debate, is shutting down. A thread from its president:
Our post also gives a short update on @EcoHealthNYC, which is sadly closing its doors after >50 yrs operation in the USA & around the world. Read more here: naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-the…
"We're just handing out medicine and crossing our fingers." Christian Health Service Corps' Beth Stuebing describes how health-care professionals in Malawi are struggling to deliver essential services and contain HIV following the U.S. aid withdrawal. thinkglobalhealth.org/article/why-wo…