I never promised you a list of public health follows, but I made one anyway
Here are the folks I follow for public health, epidemiology, new viruses, etc.
As a writer and podcaster, I focus on the information war, and health information is part of that. I’m not a medical or health professional, but I like to be well informed so I can protect my family and community properly. I’ll try to have some of these folks on the pod/substack to help you also learn where to learn the facts.
Now that we’ve pulled out of the WHO, the regime has gutted public health research, USAID, the investigation, publication, and recording on the NIH and CDC websites (along with many others), good public health info will be harder to find. Normally I would start with those two sites/newsletters, but obvs. not now. With Avian Flu on the rise, Covid and Influenza high, and research money being slashed, I wanted to have good sources of information going forward. These aren’t in any particular order.
THIS LIST IS NOT EXHAUSTIVE. Please put the sources I missed in the comments and I’ll continue to update the list until we’ve got a pretty comprehensive set of fact-based resources on public health. I’m not looking for every physician newsletter…just the folks we can rely on for topline public health news. The one exception is Dr. Tanya Altmann, a pediatrician in LA, because she’s my college friend.
Thanks, friends.
Stat News
Abortion Every Day
Inside Medicine
Erin in the Morning (trans issues..mostly legal and law-based)
NPR’s Health Newsletter
Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz
Public Health Watch
Parent Data Emily Oster
Immunologic
CIDRAP Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy
CIDRAP Podcast with Dr. Michael Osterholm
Dr. Tanya Altmann Pediatrician on FB/Reels and TV news. She’s my college friend and I trust her implicitly.
I don’t know about the good sources for info on abortion, besides Jessica Valenti, so feel free to drop some in comments.
Most states have a public health dashboard. Be thoughtful about which states’ health departments you trust. Here are the three I’d look at first:
Massachusetts Executive Office Health and Human Services
California Department of Public Health
New York Department of Health
Your favorite schools of public health and med schools…I’m really not going to list them all, but here are some links. All the med schools and public health schools have newsletters you can subscribe to:
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Harvard THChan School of Public Health
Mayo Clinic
Cleveland Clinic
Mass General Brigham
All the other high end teaching and research hospitals I’m not going to list here.
Please continue to pass this around.
Thank you for this Stephanie. I will amplify at our substack, Resisting Project 2025.
And share w the Defending Public health 2000+ listserve fighting Trump 2.0.
In resistance,
Anne-christine
Also see our campaign website:
Www.resistingproject2025.org
(Formerly Stop The Coup 2025)
Thank you. I’m a retired public health and school nurse. CDC and WHO were often “go to” sources of valid information. I would additionally utilize research based data from teaching hospitals and universities. I’m keeping the list and I will spread the word.