Professor, @OHSU, CSO, Najit Technologies, Inc. Interests: infectious disease, immunology, vaccines. Open to new ideas, not a fan of dogma. Opinions are my own
OHSU, NTI
Joined February 2020
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Dr. Mark Slifka retweeted
Receiving an external postdoctoral fellowship should be a major professional achievement. Yet through my own experience and conversations with others, I've learned that these transitions can sometimes create unexpected challenges: employment status, benefits, and support. 🧵
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Check out this article: cnn.com/2025/07/08/health/na…
What is the NIH worth to you and your state? Check out this link to find out unitedformedicalresearch.org…
Two birds with one stone: Keep up with vaccinations and reduce risk of Alzheimer's: thebrighterside.news/health/…
Gotta keep science, based on science. Multiple peer-reviewed studies performed in multiple countries examining >10 million children prove there is no link between vaccines and autism. The answer is clear
“RFK Jr.’s performance did not appear to assure Cassidy, who laid out a possible rationale for rejecting the nominee’s confirmation” statnews.com/2025/01/30/rfk-…
For some pathogens to break through, the country’s immunization rates may need to slip quite a bit. But for others, the gap between no outbreak and outbreak is uncomfortably small, @katherinejwu reports: theatlantic.com/health/archi…
Good point - helps cut through the nonsense
Just passing this along as a public service announcement on vaccine safety pauloffit.substack.com/?utm_…
Dr. Mark Slifka retweeted
Not just humans.
Animal diseases too.
The cattle virus rinderpest was eradicated by...guess what..vaccination.
Clever things, vaccines
Offit @DrPaulOffit knows his stuff. It may be hard to spread the word without being throttled, but we need to follow the science and not the pseudoscience. The scientific community will need to step up to help explain how these things work
This will be the first of 6 essays I wrote about RFK Jr. In this first piece, I describe a conversation I had with him about 20 years ago, which marked the beginning of his anti-vaccine activism. Is this the man we want to be in charge of our health?
My Conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. open.substack.com/pub/paulof…
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People on both sides of the political spectrum need to listen to this. Please!
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RFK Jr’s nomination is the repudiation of a century of unprecedented and miraculous progress in public health.
We take it for granted because we don’t recognize how far we’ve come.
I recently wrote in @TheAtlantic about what we risk losing. Gift link 👇
theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv…
Dr. Mark Slifka retweeted
Dr. Paul Offit: “There were seven misstatements of fact within three-and-a-half minutes. I’m not sure what the record is, but that has to be close.”
From a historical paper I read today: "vaccination had controlled smallpox reasonably well during the first one-third of the century; however, during the period of the Jacksonian Democracy, laissez-faire doctrine prevailed and in 1837 the vaccination laws were repealed (1/3).
