Fernando De Maio

The authors of a new Perspective argue that the deluge of legislative and policy attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts threatens the integrity of the health care workforce and will ultimately worsen the health of the populace. Read the Perspective by Pamela Guerra, BS, @fernandodemaio, PhD, and Carl G. Streed, Jr., MD, MPH: nej.md/42SBoAy

CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) has provided real-time data and analysis about disease outbreaks and emerging health threats without a break every week since 1960. Until today.

The official death toll in Gaza is over 45,000, but British Palestinian surgeon @GhassanAbuSitt1 says there is strong evidence "the number is closer to 300,000." "This is literally and mathematically a genocidal project," he says.

I’ve largely kept the “ugly side” of removing #race from #kidney #algorithms to myself and a few others. Major kudos to @ushamcfarling for telling the most accurate account of the process that I’ve seen to date. Read more of the fantastic series here >> trib.al/4KkS0nx

New publication from @NASEM_Health! Speakers at a June 2023 workshop explored the meaning, design, use, and evaluation of #HealthEquity metrics in health care, communities, and other settings. Read here: ow.ly/nwN950SU52r A pleasure to take part in this event.

🚨 Israel must immediately end its offensive in Rafah, #Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes on tents in refugee camps kills dozens and injures hundreds of people. Read more 👇 msf.org/israel-must-en…

Palestinian children should wake up feeling excited to go to school and play with their friends. Instead, for those murdered in Rafah, their last moments on this earth were filled with unimaginable fear as bombs rained down on their tents. What a monstrous failure of humanity.

Last night, 180 wounded and 28 dead were recorded at the Trauma Stabilization Point (TSP) we support in Tal al Sultan, #Gaza, after airstrikes by Israeli forces hit a camp sheltering displaced people, in a designate safe zone by Israel.

With Dr. Mary Bassett today for @thenation: “We are now again at a defining historical moment as individuals, as a US medical profession, and as a society writ large. There is no ethical possibility of neutrality. We must make a choice…” thenation.com/article/societ…

Amira Hass, the only Jewish Israeli reporter to have spent 30 years living in the West Bank and Gaza, delivered the 2024 graduation speech at Columbia Journalism School and encourages journalists everywhere "to resist the normalization of evil and injustice."

Thankful for this statement from my previous academic home -- SFU Department of Sociology and Anthropology Statement Against Genocide in Palestine sfu.ca/sociology-anth…

Today in @TheLancet: The US health industry is the largest sector in the world's largest economy, and the medical profession leverages massive political power through it. Given this, our silence on US-enabled genocide in Gaza is utterly indefensible. 1/ thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Remembering our colleagues killed in Gaza over the past six months of war. Some of them were killed while providing care for patients or sheltering with their families. Attacks on health workers and health facilities are STILL happening. #CeasefireNOW 🔗doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/remembe…

MSF is horrified that Al-Shifa hospital is in ruins after a 14-day long operation by Israeli forces in and around the facility. Gaza’s largest hospital is now out of service. Given the extent of the destruction, people in the north are left with even fewer healthcare options.

ASA condemns unfounded accusations of plagiarism against sociologist Christina Cross and expresses concern about political actors misrepresenting the scientific process. Read our statement: bit.ly/4auxG0w

A group of PIs on large national datasets has released this message bit.ly/3TvFlo9. ASA supports the message and Christina Cross.

As leaders of diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts within academic, medical, and corporate institutions strive to improve equity and health for all, they are facing attacks from all sides. Read the new Perspective by @DrAlethaMaybank: nej.md/4crK2Iz