Sajda Qureshi

@DrAliSKhan fresh off the press: The Algorithm and the Village: Bridging the Global Health AI Divide with Local Wisdom. Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 13, n. 8, aug. 2025. ISSN 2375-1924. Available at: <esmed.org/MRA/mra/articl…>. Can GenAI help address global healthcare?

@DrAliSKhan How fortuitous to have Blumenthal as your mentor. His work on meaningful care is very inspiring, as is yours.

Note from my mentor; "this one hits the nail on the head in terms of calling out the anti-science bias from which we currently suffer. And the potential consequences that may result from the damage." statnews.com/2026/03/24/cov…

@DrAliSKhan @FDACommissioner @FDA Omega 3 supplements can be effective in reducing autism and ADHD symptoms in children taken with leafy greens, fish or red meat diet.

A cure for autism was good theatre for @FDACommissioner but - as usual - unrelated to scientific reality. Nice win for children and adults with a rare genetic condition that limits delivery of folate, a form of vitamin B, to the brain, with @FDA approval of leucovorin without clinical trial data. apnews.com/article/autism…

Publishes: "The DX4D Illusion: Results from a Stakeholder Survey on Digital Transformation for Development", by authors Richard Heeks, Bookie Ezeomah, Gianluca Iazzolino, Aarti Krishnan, Rose Pritchard, Jaco Renken, and Qingna Zhou. aisel.aisnet.org/itd/vol32/iss1…

@DrAliSKhan There are quite a few FOFOs appearing from the CDC.

When Republicans controlled the House or the presidency, science funding was substantially higher—on average, about $150M more per budget account under a Republican House than a Democratic one, and $100M more under a Republican president than a Democratic one. Even now, a Republican Congress has protected science funding. reddit.com/r/atlanticdisc…

@DrAliSKhan 🤣

"You can just decide that you don’t know things, it turns out, even if you do know them. You can simply decide to forget progress. Disease is caused by miasma, insufficient beef tallow, corn syrup, the evil eye. You can simply decide to burn coal and witches and books again. Be especially sure to burn the books. We must do whatever we can to make light until the sun comes back. I hope it comes back soon.$

@DrAliSKhan Is there a technology platform amoung the states for PH data sharing?

Since President Donald Trump took office, public health has been "flying blind" due to fewer CDC alerts about health threats npr.org/2026/02/06/nx-…

@DrAliSKhan Would health coaching in spa facilities qualify as public health training/treatment?

For World Cancer Day. 40% of cancers are preventable. Smoking, infections, alcohol consumption top list of 30 mostly behavioral factors medpagetoday.com/hematologyonco…

@DrAliSKhan @ProLifeIVF There is no single sequence for intelligence. Even if someone’s SNAP 25 sequence predicts a high IQ, I would argue that intelligence is a function of the learning opportunities, nutrition, environment, community and relationships a child grows up with.

@SajdaQ @ProLifeIVF I am assuming they sequence the genome of the embryo. That lets you know sex and major chromosomal abnormalities. Then probabilities of various traits based on the sequence. Not exact science. What is the gene sequence for intelligence?

Nucleus IVF+ technology is said to allow couples to optimize a baby who's smarter, taller, and healthier than embryonic siblings based on probabilities to choose which one to implant. Lot of moral and social ambiguities. lifesitenews.com/blogs/brave-ne…

@ProLifeIVF @DrAliSKhan If the goal is to choose healthy embryos, on what basis are they selected?

@DrAliSKhan @SajdaQ Embryos aren’t individual babies with fixed traits or genetics

@DrAliSKhan Still, it is morally problematic to be able choose between IVF embryos. How does this form of selection narrow the genetic pool? Would people select the same types of embryos?

@DrAliSKhan In fact, the opposite. I had some undergrad students who refused to take notes in my class because, in their words: "we will just take a printout of the whiteboard" thinking it was electronic. I had to explain that my marker was actually ink and the board was white plastic.

Good read that app those laptops in classrooms may not have helped learning at all. Ed tech is profitable. It is also mostly useless. economist.com/united-states/…

@LevendisJohn Not at all, even though many of the papers I grade are written by the usual LLMs. I could use AI to grade, but then the LLMs would be grading themselves and each other.

Professors, how much of your daily routine have you been able to fully automate with AI/coding. Me, almost none. I'm looking for ideas.

@DrAliSKhan “All public health is global health”. What an impressive legacy. He reminds me of my father in Uganda who had two sets of vaccination syringes: large ones for cattle and small ones for the rest of us.

Bill Foege. One of the legends in public health. "Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get." " We will live through this drought of values, principles, and facts and again apply our talents to improving global health and happiness.  Do not back down. " nytimes.com/2026/01/24/us/…

@DrAliSKhan @FDA Why do they want to increase access to ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine? People already purchase these drugs without prescription.

Iowa legislature forwards a bill that asks if we really need an @FDA. Sell and buy whatever you want for your health. thegazette.com/state-governme…

@GerryRiver55569 @DrAliSKhan @WHO Newsom or Trump?

@SajdaQ @DrAliSKhan @WHO Everything he does is a stunt. The guy has zero substance, zero ideas, just virtue signals he doesn't believe and nonsense. The mans a failure at his job, which he never seems to actually do.

Stars and Stripes coming down @WHO An organization the US helped create.

@DrAliSKhan It is indeed unethical to knowingly withhold treatment. However, adding informed consent protocols allows patients to be fully informed about the treatment and decide against treatment is ethical.

A controversial trial to examine various impacts of the hepatitis B vaccine on newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau has been “suspended or cancelled”, according to the country’s Health Minister. Big concern is still University of Southern Denmark ethics commitee. healthpolicy-watch.news/suspended-or-c…

*Fatima Bhutto: “When a person rallies for Iranian women to take off their hijab but has no words for Palestinian women, then you are not a feminist—you are a propagandist.”* Writer and *journalist Fatima Bhutto* , on Myriam François’s @MyriamFrancoisC show.

@DrAliSKhan @USDA Agreed! In fact there is hardly any way a teenager will eat vegetables unless they are on burgers and Mac n cheese.

Good news. The @USDA just solved the affordability crisis - healthy meals only $3 per person. More seriously, honest that red meat is not (routine) part of a healthy diet. A primarily plant-based diet. Fish & poultry in moderation. No processed food. washingtonpost.com/business/2026/…