Just a friendly neighborhood infectious disease epidemiologist. World traveler. Academic. New Yorker. Hapa. HBCU grad.
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As an alumna of the Department of Defense Dependent's Schools (DoDDS) in the US, England, and the Azores, I am deeply disturbed by Hegseth's meddling in the curricula. cnn.com/2026/09/29/politics/…
No matter what you think, science is gonna science:
*Make flu vaccine optional, airmen are gonna get the flu
*Paint the reflecting pool blue, algae is gonna bloom
*Add H2O2 to the painted reflecting pool, the blue paint is gonna come off
All predictable because... SCIENCE
What RFK Jr and his ilk don't want you to know.
Unexplained Pauses in Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Surveillance: Erosion of the Public Evidence Base for Health Policy | Annals of Internal Medicine acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/…
This is wrong in so many ways (a thread). Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop set up the trust to support Native Hawaiians at a time when outsiders (and particularly haole American businessmen) were undermining the Hawaiian monarchy.
nytimes.com/2025/10/21/us/po…
Over the decades, Native Hawaiians experienced a lot of discrimination. The ruling haole class tried to stamp out their culture and language. Today, Native Hawaiians experience economic, educational, political, and health disparities. Kamehameha Schools are part of the solution.
Omg. Just saw @wkamaubell on the street. I totally 51-year-old fan girled him and he gave me a hug. Super smart and nice man. Thank you sir. Your perspective are appreciated right now.
The 2026 University Psychedelic Education Program (U-PEP) Application is open. U-PEP expands access to education about the therapeutic use of psychedelic meds for faculty in nursing, social work, medicine, psychology, and public health. See bit.ly/46HSqCE for more info
I was quoted today in @NYMag: Hiding these substances isn’t enough; they need to be locked up securely. A longtime @WuTangClan fan, Ompad coveted @methodman’s lockable $420 wooden stash box before it sold out, but she advised that a $50 Amazon document safe will do just fine.
Our work on copycat edibles was featured in @NYMag. nymag.com/intelligencer/arti…
The bottom line? “Lock your shit up,” she said. “Just lock it up. It’s the responsibility of the producers, the manufacturers, and the sellers, whether licensed or unlicensed, to make sure their packaging doesn’t appeal to kids.
Check out a new paper from two of our @nyupublichealth PhD students, Mehrdad Khezri and Sarah Kimball
Harms associated with injecting in public spaces: a global systematic review and meta-analysis
authors.elsevier.com/c/1k-N2…
Danielle Ompad retweeted
Shonette Richmond is a student in the @nyu_uel. Yesterday, she presented her first scientific poster at a conference! We were at the NYC Epidemiology Forum at Hofstra University, where she presented our research: Characterizing the cannabis retail landscape in NYC: A secret-shopper survey.
Cho-Hee Shrader and I will be presenting our work on drug use among drug researchers in the DADR Editor's Pick Webinar tomorrow. You can register for free here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi…
Our copycat cannabis edible paper is in the news again! cnn.com/2025/02/12/health/ma…
RIP President Carter. You were a great man and humanitarian. Thank you for your life lived in public service.
A special thanks for your efforts to eradicate guinea worm/dracunculiasis. You were a public health champion too.
