What in the Health?!
Shelley N. Facente, PhD, MPHFearless, funny, and expertly vetted updates on what is happening to public health in the US—the good, the bad, and the (lots of) ugly—since Inauguration Day 2025.
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When "gold standard" has lost all meaning.
You want to know what’s a term that will be forever tarnished? “Gold standard.” If I never hear the term “gold standard science” ever again, it will be too soon. Like the tacky gold that now adorns every nook and cranny of the once-classy W...
One of RFK Jr.'s most tone deaf appearances yet.
A year ago I wrote a post about the shooting at CDC. On August 8, 2025, Patrick Joseph White went to CDC headquarters and fired nearly 500 rounds at the building, piercing office windows, terrorizing a daycare, and murdering DeKalb County p...
Could we have prevented the outbreak from diarrhea lettuce?
You had to know I couldn’t let this meme-filled national conversation about “diarrhea lettuce” pass by without a comment on this Substack. What in the health?! indeed.
(By the way, I’m Gen Z so this ^^ is the one that really had me falling...
Last Chance: Take action NOW to stop Russell Vought from revamping the federal funding landscape.
A recent article by Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker was aptly titled An O.M.B. Plan to Defund Science—and Anything Trump Doesn’t Like. Most articles about this issue have made it sound like this is about scientific research grants. But...
We need to protect trans kids—during Pride, and always.
San Francisco is wrapping up another fantastic Pride celebration weekend. These days I don’t get so excited about going into the fray for the alcohol-fueled party with hundreds of thousands of jubilant, love-filled revelers in the streets,...
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I have a Master of Public Health and a PhD in epidemiology from UC Berkeley, am faculty at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health, and have been a busy public health consultant for the last 15 years, working to improve health equity everywhere.
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