Lois King (MPH) 🇬🇧 🇬🇭

Welcome to all my new followers (can't quite believe I have this many but thank you, starter packs 🙏🏾)! I'm a ✨️recovering academic✨️ a.k.a. global health consultant, podcast host and rare disease patient advocate with @thesumairafdn.bsky.social based in the UK 👋🏾

‘The flood took everything I have’: survivors grieve for relatives and homes swept away in Nepal

Is AI changing writing & academia? Yep. Staggering 90% of biomedical papers now show signs of AI help www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I don't know who needs a real pickmeup today, but in recent court filings about the wealth owned by Andrew Tate, they indicate the Bugattis and Aston Martin he always bragged about owning... were rented. All of them.

Never let a writer help you move

How do I explain to small business owners that the menu on the left is one billion times more appealing than the one on the right

“The preventable deaths caused by the global health order are not mere governance failures but structural outcomes of monopoly intellectual property, sovereign debt, and the commodification of health under a capitalist world economy” @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/394/...

Dr. Erica Schwartz becoming the first Black woman to lead the CDC is historic, but representation & accountability must go together. Trust must be earned by defending science, protecting the CDC’s independence, and putting public health above political pressure. I’ll be watching. #DrUB

been in the cards for awhile, but it’s confirmed now: “For the first time in a quarter century, the U.S. no longer meets a main criterion for having eliminated measles as a public health threat.”

It's hilarious that 30% of people are willing to offer an opinion on a book when ~15% of Americans say they read for pleasure. This is astroturfed outrage

Healey as chancellor? Streeting as defence secretary? This isn’t a cabinet to change the UK like Burnham promised | Owen Jones

"Africa bears a heavy infectious-disease burden and is home to a quarter of the world’s biodiversity, yet it accounts for under two percent of pharmaceutical patents: the continent’s plants, fungi, and marine organisms are a formidable but underused resource to address antimicrobial resistance."

I feel like we moved on from this way too quickly. This scares me.

More signs of resurging HIV after USAID’s closure. African Neonatal Network reported at IMNCH (a global health conference): HIV+ pregnant women ↑50% & those not on antiretrovirals ↑>300%, year-on-year, across 22 hospitals in 5 nations. @vtoxfordnetwork.bsky.social

GOOD NEWS! A personalized mRNA vaccine, known as mRNA-4157, has shown promise in keeping melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, from returning. FIVE years later, NEARLY 70% of people in the vaccine group are CANCER-FREE. The vaccine also cut a person’s risk of the cancer metastasizing by NEARLY 60%.

A Pulitzer Prize photo

Cape Verde’s World Cup heroes have landed back home, greeted by saluting airport staff and hundreds of fans 🇨🇻 Today is also the 51st anniversary of the country’s independence. Have a day, Cape Verde 💙

They did exactly what you should NOT do: they made sudden & massive cuts in health & humanitarian aid When you do this, our research has shown that you get disease resurgence & deaths The deaths caused by Musk “putting USAID into the wood chipper” (his words) were predictable & preventable 13/n

Health aid can lead to health system fragmentation & inefficiency when allocated to vertical (disease-specific) programs So: aid has saved millions of lives (e.g. the Global Fund estimates it has saved 70 million lives, Gavi estimates 21 million deaths prevented) but it has downsides too 10/n

I’m grateful to @nickkristof.bsky.social for his continued reporting on the Trump Administration’s horrific retreat from global health cooperation—which has had deadly consequences—& for sharing the painful human stories of deaths that could have been averted I guess this topic is kind of my lane 🧵

Ebo Taylor - Love and Death [Ghana, Afrobeat] (1980) https://redd.it/4eaczz https://youtu.be/dFLDXp6sy6I

Beer Delivery Driver Points Trembling Shotgun As Crowd Of Scottish Soccer Fans Close In https://theonion.com/beer-delivery-driver-points-trembling-shotgun-as-crowd-of-scottish-soccer-fans-close-in/

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

⚽️ Goal by Caleb Yirenkyi 🇬🇭 Ghana 1-0 Panama 🇵🇦 ▪️GHANA SCORES ITS FIRST GOAL OF THE 2026 FIFA WORLD CUP! #FIFAWorldCup #GHAPAN

Big fan of the supporters very loudly booing the hydration breaks in the Ghana 🇬🇭 vs Panama 🇵🇦 game. #WorldCup #GHAPAN

Is correlation causation? In this provocative article, we find that correlation is in fact correlated, and conclude that this means causation.

Did you know 19th-century medicine wrongly claimed Black people were genetically destined for poorer health outcomes? In episode 6 of Intention to Treat, Joseph Graves, PhD, digs into the history of race in medicine. Listen to Intention to Treat wherever you get your podcasts.

Israel has issued an evacuation order to the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon.

The HPV vaccine was approved 20 years ago this week. In a new series, CIDRAP News looks at what we've learned. In this story, we profile two sisters: Hailey was eligible for vaccination in 2006. Erica was not. 6 yrs later, Erica was diagnosed with cervical cancer. www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

What does the future hold for global health? Facing unprecedented pressure from sweeping aid cuts and fracturing multilateral alliances, the sector is at a critical turning point. Devex spoke with 11 global health leaders to find out what the community needs to know to navigate the road ahead.

Kennedy said vitamin A cured measles...

My LinkedIn feed is awash with AI-generated infographics that my eyes are just glazing over all the noise. I can’t tell if it’s just the subconscious recognition of AI use itself or a perfect demonstration of how LLMs lack the creativity and ability to apply good design principles but I hate it.

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Harder to think of a clearer example of "The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle The Master's House" for this era than people using "generative AI" to protest the outputs and infrastructure of "AI"

“Arbitrary quarantines and travel restrictions may be politically popular, but they won’t curb the outbreak or protect Americans...These measures are also unlawful.” Why the US must urgently pivot from me, @jennifernuzzo.bsky.social & @gostin.bsky.social in @thehill.com thehill.com/opinion/heal...

Here are 5 consultant roles: 📊 Program Management Consultant 📈 Quantitative Research Consultant 🔍 Evaluations Consultant 📝 Grant and Proposal Writing Consultant Focus on marketing yourself as a consultant. To read the full blog post: www.jontakam.com/blog/how-i-s... @loisemilyking.com (2/2)

Consultant Roles and How Your Experience Relates to Them ✅️ You may not think you have the experience to position yourself as a consultant. Take a moment to reflect, and you likely already have the skills to become a consultant. You just need to brand yourself as one. (1/2) #JontaKam

✨"Learn to say no!" ✨ 🔐 Saying no may feel like you are closing a door. But think about it this way: it is making space for the work that aligns with your skills, your goals, and your capacity. 🔗 To read the full blog post: www.jontakam.com/blog/how-i-s... @loisemilyking.com #JontaKam