Vince Blaser

A global advocacy campaign that asserts the political power of high support for humanitarian & development programs and doesn't let any country off the hook for financing is urgently needed. My Substack: open.substack.com/pub/blaserv/p/… #WBGmeetings #globalhealth #globaldevelopment

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists. wapo.st/4tFqKqY

2 weeks out! The NAM Climate and Health Summit on April 8 will highlight top experts at the intersection of climate and health. Don't miss this chance to learn practical perspectives and pathways for collective action! Register: buff.ly/EUMX18s #ClimateActionforHealth

Current global #nursing shortage is 5.8m and the projections only reduce to 4.5m by 2030. We’re simply not doing enough to close the gap. What’s a key missing ingredient? I’d put political will and action right up there.

ScienceInsider: United States is cutting ties with influential global cancer agency bit.ly/40rb5Po @ScienceInsider @NIH jay bhattacharya @NIHDirector_Jay

Colorado State is March Madness bound, Rams win the Mountain West!

So much for “restoring trust,” and “gold standard science…” 🤷🏽‍♂️

𝙈𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙔 𝙋𝘼𝙍𝙏𝙔 𝙏𝙄𝙈𝙀‼️ 🎉 #Relentless x #CSURams

Trump has collapsed cancer research. —> The National Cancer Institute hasn’t made a single grant this fiscal year newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

STATEMENT: Orders issued to up to 500,000 people in southern Beirut could result in a humanitarian catastrophe. 'No child should ever have to pay the price for a conflict they did not create.’ @AhmadAlhendawi tinyurl.com/2mwn4rby

Learn more about how St. Jude is helping childhood cancer go from invisible to a public health priority. ow.ly/11hr50Y8sZk #WorldCancerDay

In some good news: HPV vaccines remain one of the marvels of science

But also it’s not only measles, pertussis (whooping cough) is also returning, and based on latest ACIP (or what used to be ACIP) stunts, we’ll see rotavirus, meningococcal meningitis, HBV liver cancer, return after that. A public health disaster built by design since Jan 2025

We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.

Congratulations to Denmark on becoming the first country in the #EU to eliminate mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis. With this public health achievement, 23 countries and territories have now been validated by @WHO for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis or hepatitis B virus, or certified on the path to elimination. This milestone demonstrates that with strong political commitment and consistent investment in primary care and integrated maternal and child health services, countries can protect every pregnant woman and newborn from these diseases. who.int/news/item/27-0…

Please spread the word and join us. Changing the world is a team sport.

Zimbabwe has walked away from a proposed $350 mn health funding agreement with the US, after President Mnangagwa personally directed his gov to discontinue negotiations over what Harare describes as a one-sided deal that undermines the country’s sovereignty. zimlive.com/zimbabwe-rejec…

"The real goal of mega-donor influence isn't to secure a specific party’s victory but to ensure that the political system, regardless of who is in charge, remains friendly to the interests of extreme wealth." open.substack.com/pub/data4democ…

A year has passed since @elonmusk began the wood-chipper-ing of @USAID. Since then, global humanitarian funding has collapsed by almost 1/3, mostly due to the Trump/Elon cuts. Vast suffering has ensued. 🧵

Have been too shattered to write this but for the sake of clarity — I have also been laid off by the Post. I was one of the few journalists still working inside Russia. My last story went on the front page and featured rare testimonies from wounded soldiers criticizing the war.