"Ultimately, ...proactive measures to prepare for public health threats would generate a far greater return on investment than reactive ones. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

From @thinkglobalhealth.org: Public health experts highlight why tracking disease outbreaks in conflict zones requires detailed monitoring to prevent threats like polio and cholera from spreading.

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Per @browndailyherald.bsky.social: Will an apple a day keep the doctor away this #FluSeason?

“...sometimes these phrases that we say actually have good health advice, and sometimes they don’t” —
Dr. Francesca Beaudoin ( @brownpublichealth.bsky.social )

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Professor @mlbarnett.bsky.social has found that amid the explosion in training programs for our expanding #nursepractitioner workforce, nearly 1 in 3 new NPs is being educated by a for-profit program.

Dr. Barnett's reasons for concern: https://www.brown.edu/news/2026-10-08/profit-nurse-training

FL's Ex-Surgeon General Scott Rivkees (@brownpublichealth.bsky.social) warns that changing school vaccine rules will spark preventable outbreaks:

"Some children will sadly pass away, and some children will have long-term, permanent problems..."

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“Something is not adding up about this situation,” Professor @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social says.

As Burlington, Vermont struggles to open an overdose prevention center, Professor Brandon Marshall, who is studying the effects of the #OPCs in Providence and NYC, says so far he's finding that OPCs are hubs for healthcare and recovery and that neighbors remain supportive of the centers.

"You don’t quarantine 200 people for one #plague case. You don’t close multiple hospital units in response to one infection.”

@jennifernuzzo.bsky.social shared w/ @krcallaway.bsky.social on the critical information that we still don't have after the death of a Russian lab worker, via @nytimes.com.

As the US escalates its request for information from Russian authorities about the death of a laboratory worker, America’s ability to handle a new public health response “is severely diminished,” Professor @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social says. “We are talking about a very depleted system."

WATCH NOW Professor @craigspencer.bsky.social spoke with @democracynow.org about what is now the fastest-growing #Ebola outbreak ever.

"In the past, we would have sent people to be on the ground in the middle of these communities that are most affected. Right now the US is not doing that," he says.

Climate change alters how infectious disease threats spread.

Thanks to a new grant from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we're working to strengthen global surveillance and ensure countries can effectively link and share data to inform timely action.

pandemics.sph.brown.edu/news/2026-10...

Per ABC Australia, the recent death of an employee at an "anti-plague" lab in Irkutsk has sparked conflicting claims in Russia.

"The facts... and how authorities are responding increases our worries that this isn't just a run-of-the-mill lab accident." — @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social

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Via @browndailyherald.bsky.social: Born under South African apartheid, @wilmotjames.bsky.social brings his unique background to @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social as Director of the Africa Initiative, building a forward-looking space for research & collaboration.

"The facts of the case that are known, including how authorities are responding to it, increases our worries that this isn't just a run-of-the-mill laboratory accident," Professor @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social says of the death at a Siberian 'anti-plague' laboratory from a pneumonia of unknown origin.

We just released a special issue of our Tracking Report on the fatal pneumonia case in Russia.

Clear, transparent information is vital, but many questions remain unanswered.

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We talk a lot about #privateequity and its role in US healthcare. But the first comprehensive accounting of private equity ownership across India’s sprawling health care sector finds a wave of foreign-financed capital that accelerated dramatically after 2020.

Drinking in the US has fallen to its lowest levels in 90 years of tracking. But there is a troubling spot: #GenX adults are drinking more. “Alcohol is marketed to that group as a luxury item," Professor @chriskahlerphd.bsky.social says, "part of the good life.”🍷

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AI use in healthcare is under scrutiny.

Prof @cwhaley.bsky.social says the ultimate test should not be whether AI lowers healthcare spending. The technology might even increase spending and still be worth investment, he says, if it improves patient access or quality of care. https://cnb.cx/4zfGS5i