William Nettleton, MD, MPH

I’m honored to be named a 2021 @deBeaumontFndtn 40 Under 40 in Public Health. I'm also grateful for my education and medical and public health training @ohsufamilymed @OHSUNews @publichealthpdx @waynestate @HopeCollege. debeaumont.org/40-under-40/wi…

The health policy community is engaged in a conversation regarding "trust." Trust in science, trust in physicians, trust in institutions like the CDC and trust in health care leaders. Here are the facts: people and families trust their family physician and seek out their guidance. ✔️ 83% of people trust medical guidance from family physician. ✔️ 89% of people with a chronic disease trust guidance from a family physician. ✔️ 87% of people look to their family physician for guidance on preventive health. ✔️ 80% of people who have a family physician believe that regularly seeing their family physician is crucial to maintaining their overall health.

Public health workers must never become targets. Healthcare facilities must never become battlegrounds, and facts must never yield to fear.

"Everyone must chip in to preserve vaccine access and confidence," says Dr. William Nettleton, medical director for @KzooCountyHCS. #IVaccinate #IVax2Protect Read more from @DrWDNettleton, family medicine physician and public health expert: ivaccinate.org/opinion-tackle…

@BridgeMichigan @IVaccinateMI @deBeaumontFndtn

Opinion | Tackle falsehoods about vaccines to preserve our freedom from disease bit.ly/3H7J5Kq

If you’ve fallen behind on your child’s vaccines, it’s not too late to get caught up! Now’s the time to make sure your whole family is protected from preventable diseases like measles & whooping cough. Talk to your child's doctor & get the facts at IVaccinate.org

Choosing family medicine isn’t just choosing a specialty... it’s choosing community! It’s choosing to: 🩺 Care for neighbors, not just patients 🩺 Serve diverse voices & unique needs 🩺 Build healthier, stronger communities together Chose more. Choose family medicine!

There is so much to say, but with US vaccine policy in the news so much, I'll start here. msms.org/About-MSMS/New…

You don’t notice public health—until it fails. The reason you don’t worry about smallpox? Or cholera in your tap water? It’s because decades of public health work made those dangers disappear. But here’s the thing: diseases don’t just go away forever. They come back if we stop doing the work until it fails. Seeing how much public health has done matters. But seeing isn’t enough. Knowing a crisis is preventable isn’t the same as preventing it. It’s like knowing there’s gold in a mountain—but never digging. If we want to keep our families safe and our communities strong, we have to protect what’s protecting us. #PublicHealth #PreventionSavesLives #HealthMatters #StayInformed #CommunityHealth #HealthAwareness #HealthTips #GlobalHealth #WellnessJourney #HealthForAll

Patients with moderate or severe opioid use disorder should be offered buprenorphine treatment. Read more about common questions and answers about buprenorphine treatment for opioid use disorder: bit.ly/3GrFO7Z #FamilyMedicine #AFPJournal

Medicaid covered 41% of all births nationally in 2023, including 47% of births in rural communities. kff.org/medicaid/issue…

Yesterday, Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressional mandated. They've saved millions of lives. 🧵

As both a citizen and physician, I am appalled by the harm described in this affidavit towards a civil servant and his pregnant wife at the hands of his own government and employer. It is abandonment. It is wrong.

Dismantling USAID is a moral blunder and strategic mistake. Misinformation and disinformation fomenting its desmise are hurting America, its soft power and real human beings. It's in America's self interest to alleviate suffering and death abroad. @PIH nytimes.com/2025/02/06/opi…

Dismantling USAID is antithetical to West Michigan values and a virtuous America. It's in our interest to build businesses, expand markets and alleviate suffering and death abroad. @RepHuizenga please hear Andrew Natsios, USAID chief under George W. Bush: youtu.be/3jMq5XzVBng?si…

Not only does Bennu contain all 5 of the nucleobases that form DNA and RNA on Earth and 14 of the 20 amino acids found in known proteins, the asteroid’s amino acids hold a surprise go.nature.com/3EqQLWo

1 diagnosed with active TB at Kalamazoo Central HS woodtv.com/news/kalamazoo…

An investigation is being launched after an individual at a local school was diagnosed with tuberculosis. bit.ly/3Euvxa7

Here is a better way to assess #H5N1 human health risk across different populations and scenarios from @BSPH_CHS at cori.centerforhealthsecurity.org/resources/avia…. Click or zoom in below. #preparedness #PublicHealth

The potential for a pandemic is low until it is not. Individual risk of exposure to #H5N1 can be low even as more animal and human infections occur - the latter of which increases probability of the emergence of a novel virus with increased clinical severity or transmissibility.