Joshua Salomon
Professor at Stanford. Probabilistic optimist.
#healthpolicy | #publichealth | infectious disease | decision science | simulation modeling | economic evaluation
Director http://ppml.stanford.edu
- No creature more optimistic than Mochi thinking that maybe — just maybe — tonight will finally be the night she gets that fourth serving of dinner #dogsofbluesky
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonThe National Institutes of Health plans to pool information from private sources like pharmacies and smartwatches.
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- On Monday the Supreme Court hears a case that could strike down the ACA mandate that insurers cover preventive services at no cost to patients. We found that ~40 million people with private insurance use these free services, including half of enrolled women. JAMA Health Forum: ja.ma/3GcUZC6 🩺📊
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonDrug-resistant gonorrhea, a form of the widespread sexually transmitted infection, is considered an urgent health threat worldwide. The US has just lost its ability to detect it. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/h...
- Reposted by Joshua SalomonNEW 🧵 A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far: 1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively. These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
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- Thinking of my CDC colleagues today, scientists and public servants doing vital work for our nation. This is devastating.
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- Reposted by Joshua Salomon12. Like art, music, philosophy, and literature, science is literally part of humanity's heritage. My colleagues and I have had the amazing opportunity to be part of something vastly larger than ourselves, with meaning that transcends any state, regime, or generation. They can't take that away.
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonElon Musk says that no one has died because he slashed humanitarian aid. I went to South Sudan to check if that's true. It's not. Meet Peter, Achol and Evan, ages 10, 8 and 5. The reckless actions of the world's richest men are killing the world's poorest kids www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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- “I am a TB survivor myself: I cannot leave people just dying." Agnes Okose and other community health workers in Kenya continue to work without pay to sustain TB care after US cuts. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/h... Photo credit: Brian Otieno for @nytimes.com
- Reposted by Joshua SalomonNIH to terminate or limit grants related to vaccine hesitancy and uptake www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
- Pardon me, but the sign clearly says no parking
- Reposted by Joshua SalomonNew: People across the political spectrum really don't want Medicaid to be cut. And, it's personal: 53% of people say they or a family member has been covered by Medicaid at some point. www.kff.org/medicaid/pol...
- Reposted by Joshua SalomonThe Texas-New Mexico #measles outbreak has claimed a second life. Unvaccinated adult. Measles is not a benign ailment. The only way to prevent it is vaccination. www.nmhealth.org/news/alert/2...
- Hoping tonight’s address can clarify which part of less healthy less secure less free less just less prosperous is the “great” part.
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonBreaking: RFK Jr. moves to quietly eliminate public comment from HHS's decision making: www.statnews.com/2025/02/28/r...
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonRubio 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 Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵
- Reposted by Joshua SalomonI talked to NIH officials, current and former, about what's been happening inside the agency since the Trump administration shut down their grantmaking pipeline in January. Their stories showed just how willing our new leaders are to break the law: www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
- For 40 years the Demographic and Health Surveys have been essential for tracking population health in dozens of countries with limited resources and weak health information systems. The torrent of thoughtless, harmful decision making is dizzying. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/h...
- Reposted by Joshua Salomon🚨Texas measles outbreak nears 100 cases, w/16 hospitalizations. Officials suspect it's spilled just across the border to New Mexico. Low vax rates+undetected infections mean it will grow. “This is going to get a lot worse before it gets better” My latest kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
- “The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions—even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.” @timothysnyder.bsky.social, On Tyranny (2017)
- Surprised this morning by the (positive) news that Trump administration will defend the important ACA provision that requires zero cost coverage of preventive services, challenged in the Braidwood case. (Is there a catch?) #healthpolicy www.axios.com/2025/02/20/t...
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonExclusive scoop @statnews.com: Trump administration to fire 5,200 HHS employees this afternoon www.statnews.com/2025/02/14/f...
- “Trump and his administration are now deciding how deep a rift to make in America’s scientific firmament. How long it takes to repair the damage, or whether that will be possible at all, depends on the extent of the damage they inflict now.” Essential reading from @katherinejwu.com, as ever
- “I am afraid for our country because I know what happens when science denialism comes into power …” @gregggonsalves.bsky.social But this is not a time for defeatism. “Yes, sometimes you persist and you fight ‘the long defeat’ … you don’t turn your back on those who have the most to lose.”
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonJUST IN: Federal judges orders HHS, CDC, and FDA to restore “by no later than 11:59 pm” today their websites and datasets to pre-January 30th status. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonThinking back on all this I better understand the pain I feel to see science under devastating attack here. It’s not just about my livelihood or my university. It’s about my identity. And it’s about a pursuit that I see as standing along with art, literature, and music as among our highest callings.
- “…they have imperiled millions of lives, thousands of American jobs and billions of dollars of investment in American small businesses and farms while severely undermining our national security and global influence — all while authoritarians and extremists celebrate their luck.”
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- New banner has appeared at the top of cdc.gov home page.
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- Reposted by Joshua SalomonBREAKING: The Trump administration has instructed organizations in other countries to stop disbursing HIV medications purchased with U.S. aid, even if the drugs have already been obtained and are sitting in local clinics. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
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- Good day to recall some milestones in US polio history 1953 Worst recorded US outbreak kills more than 3000 1955 First polio vaccine licensed 1979 Polio considered eliminated from the United States 1994 Polio considered eliminated in North and South America ourworldindata.org/grapher/repo...
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