@barav

Washington, D.C.-based journalist

 Washington, DC
baravaida.com/
Joined June 2009
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So great to meet you too @lizSzabo!
Liz Szabo@LizSzabo25 Feb 2024
Thanks to Liz Seegert for inviting me to speak to a group of outstanding reporters today at the Journalism & Women Symposium's Health Journalism Fellowship. Go @womenjournos! So great to finally meet Liz, @barav @RhituC and @jessiehellmann in person.
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Looking for a refresher on covering polls or new to political reporting? Join @NPCInstitute's free webinar tomorrow (Jan. 31) on covering polls: tinyurl.com/4557yuzh
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Come hear @jbey, @jon_fischer @teresawiltz, @patrick_hruby, @AnjumanAli3, @julietmbeverly about what pitches they are looking for and @KatherineLewis on how to run a freelance business.
NPC Journalism Institute@NPCInstitute30 Nov 2023
Journalists: Come meet editors in the DC area who are accepting freelance articles 📰 On 12/8 at @PressClubDC, you'll learn strategies for winning pitches, managing freelancing as a business & building the writer and editor relationship. pressclubinstitute.org/event…

Taking Charge as a Freelancer: Pitching, managing finances, and collaborating with editors -...

Join the National Press Club Journalism Institute on Dec. 8 for an in-person workshop on pitching, managing finances, and collaborating with editors.

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NEW PRICE! Join us at @PressClubDC for a workshop designed for freelance journalists & those interested in starting a freelance business. Learn strategies for pitching, managing finances & working with editors. Tickets on sale: pressclubinstitute.org/event…
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Thank you @StateDept for giving me the opportunity to narrate your digital story AND for clarifying which character I played in that space movie. 🙏❤️👍 stories.state.gov/space
Department of State
@StateDept6 Oct 2023
Science fiction is becoming jaw-dropping fact, largely thanks to collaboration among many nations. Launch into a real-life space adventure with @MarkHamill, who played Luke Skywalker in Star Wars, in our latest digital story: stories.state.gov/space
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LIVE NOW: The Czech Republic is signing the #Artemis Accords, joining more than 20 nations from all over the world committed to the peaceful and safe exploration of space: nasa.gov/live
This graphic shows the list of countries that have signed the Artemis Accords. Flags from 24 different nations are listed over an image of the shadowed lunar surface. The flags represent Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The bottom of the image reads: "United for Peaceful Exploration of Space."

ALT This graphic shows the list of countries that have signed the Artemis Accords. Flags from 24 different nations are listed over an image of the shadowed lunar surface. The flags represent Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Mexico, New Zealand, Nigeria, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States of America. The bottom of the image reads: "United for Peaceful Exploration of Space."

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I am moderating a panel at the Association of Health Care Journalists - Health Journalism 2023. Please check out my panel if you're attending the event! #HJ23 - via #Whova event app
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A.2. Today's news from WSJ/DOE doesn't confirm group #1 (zoonotic) nor does it confirm group #2 (lab); rather, about the only thing it supports is that the overall Lancet Covid-19 Commission Report had it right by presenting in-line w/ group #3 - we still don't know.
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Yesterday, the Coronavirus Vaccines R&D Roadmap was released. Its an important document summarizing steps that need to be taken to have better coronavirus vaccines in the future. A great tool for policymakers to direct funding. cvr.cidrap.umn.edu/

Coronavirus Vaccines R&D Roadmap Initiative

CIDRAP provides advice, information and analysis on the prevention, control and treatment of targeted infectious diseases and in public health preparedness.

cvr.cidrap.umn.edu
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There seems to be a translation error from Khmer to English. The report below (in khmer) states there are 12 contacts to the index case and 4 amongst those 12 report flu like symptoms. m.freshnewsasia.com/index.ph…

FRESH NEWS

The Best Breaking News in Cambodia.

m.freshnews.com.kh
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If you're worrying about the report suggesting there have been 12 new confirmed cases of H5N1 in Cambodia, please see this.
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#H5N1 #birdflu is garnering headlines galore. I'm not here to tell you H5 isn't a dangerous virus. But how likely it is to ever be able to spread easily among people isn't currently knowable. Few people alive know more about H5 than @CDCgov's Tim Uyeki. cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/spotlig…
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A key quote in @HelenBranswell's story on understanding avian flu: “Trying to predict what H5N1 will do in the human population absolutely requires a great deal of scientific humility,” said CIDRAP’s Michael Osterholm. bit.ly/3XktcCn

Tracking the bird flu, experts see a familiar threat — and a virus whose course is hard to predict

While scientists who have been studying H5N1 bird flu for a couple of decades have a very healthy respect for it, a number are hedging their bets about what the virus's future path will look like.

statnews.com
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Bummer that this Johns Hopkins' COVID tracker is shutting down in March. It was an invaluable resource during these past 3 years: bit.ly/3YHa4jm

As the pandemic ebbs, an influential COVID tracker shuts down

After three years, the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center is ceasing operations. Its data dashboards and maps became go-to sources for information from the early days of the pandemic.

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Health journalists: Looking for resources to cover avian flu - H5N1? See my post for @AHCJ with context and experts to call: bit.ly/3Yp9tTI
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Join us for our webinar today at 2 PM ET.
Association of Health Care Journalists@AHCJ9 Feb 2023
Interested in the latest research on long COVID? Join @barav for a webinar with the #NIH's Dr. Gary Gibbons on Feb. 10, 2 p.m. ET. healthjournalism.org/calenda…
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Interested in the latest research on long COVID? Join @barav for a webinar with the #NIH's Dr. Gary Gibbons on Feb. 10, 2 p.m. ET. healthjournalism.org/calenda…
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Interested in the latest research on long COVID? Join @barav for a webinar with the #NIH's Dr. Gary Gibbons on Feb. 10, 2 p.m. ET. healthjournalism.org/calenda…
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I'm thrilled that a 2nd edition of @Open_Notebook's book THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING will be published by @UChicagoPress! This expanded edition will include chapters by @edyong209 @carlzimmer @laurahelmuth @rpocisv @alexwitze @sarahzhang, @wudanyan & MANY others! (1/n)
Science writer and co-founder of the go-to site for science journalists, The Open Notebook, Siri Carpenter’s THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING, offering advice from Carpenter and other journalists, including Ed Yong, Laura Helmuth, Carl Zimmer, and Sarah Zhang, for all writers covering stories of science, technology, environment, and medicine; acquired along with an unnamed anthology, annotated by top journalists dissecting the best of pieces of science writing, at auction, to Joseph Calamia at the University of Chicago Press, in a two-book deal, by Gillian MacKenzie at Gillian MacKenzie Agency (world English).

ALT Science writer and co-founder of the go-to site for science journalists, The Open Notebook, Siri Carpenter’s THE CRAFT OF SCIENCE WRITING, offering advice from Carpenter and other journalists, including Ed Yong, Laura Helmuth, Carl Zimmer, and Sarah Zhang, for all writers covering stories of science, technology, environment, and medicine; acquired along with an unnamed anthology, annotated by top journalists dissecting the best of pieces of science writing, at auction, to Joseph Calamia at the University of Chicago Press, in a two-book deal, by Gillian MacKenzie at Gillian MacKenzie Agency (world English).

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Interesting interview @HarvardPublic_H magazine with @KizzyPhD a rock star in virology, who now has her own research lab: forbit.ly/3jd3i5x
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