Emergency Physician | Public Health Diplomat | ex-USAID
Health x Environment x Tech
Writing featured by: Science, BMJ, Ars Technica, StatNews, & Salon
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Amit Chandra, MD
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Proposal development, compliance, and institutional overhead costs remain significant barriers for "localization" of global public health efforts.
Via @lancetgh.bsky.social: Past research has shown that global immunization efforts saved over 150m lives. This new study shows that every $1 invested in vaccines results in $16 of economic benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed.
“The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.
Via ProPublica on the largest raw milk dairy farm in America, pulling in $30m+ per year:
“I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital, and they have been sick, but they recovered...”
www.propublica.org/article/mark...
Via @madhupai.bsky.social:
"...every US$1 invested in TB yields $46 in benefits."
"Greater investments by high-burden countries make them less reliant on development assistance and more likely to have a sustainable TB response"
“Health is an investment, not a cost” is something I heard for years. No one could tell me how much was returned or to whom.
So I modelled it across 58 countries over 25 years. Bottom line: $36 trillion opportunity.
See below. Happy to share any country’s profile. open.substack.com/pub/singerp/...
No electricity, no gas, no sleep: Cubans on edge amid endless outages - four months into US oil blockade, Cubans see island drained as state electric company fights to provide even a few hours of power a day
By Ruaridh Nicoll
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
Of the $3.6 billion contributed to UN’s Ebola Response Fund in West Africa epidemic, China gave $47 million(~1%) while United States donated $1.8 billion(49%)
They are doing even less now
The greatest risk to Americans isn't China will supplant US as leader in global health. It's that no one will
Via @lancetgh.bsky.social: Past research has shown that global immunization efforts saved over 150m lives. This new study shows that every $1 invested in vaccines results in $16 of economic benefits.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Three more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed, including one outside the main cluster in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping a resurgent pest that could devastate the nation's cattle industry, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced.
https://to.pbs.org/4dUN2Qq
After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...
Two more cases of the New World screwworm have been confirmed hundreds of miles apart in Texas, demonstrating the difficulty of stopping the spread of a pest that could potentially devastate the natio...
One-fifth of health spending could be returned to government, but only half of that is captured today. That’s $36 trillion governments are leaving on the table.
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched by WHO. Despite its crucial role in preventing infectious d…
2024 marked the 50th anniversary of the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI), launched by WHO. Despite its crucial role in preventing infectious d…
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With Raw Farm, the largest raw-milk dairy in the country, Mark McAfee has capitalized on a once-fringe product that’s been thrust into the mainstream in recent years and backed by Health Secretary Rob...
My new essay in @economist.com Health Dividend
Tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and its heavy social cost
impact.economist.com/health-socie...
Madhukar Pai of McGill University says tuberculosis kills on a vast scale, but as foreign aid shrinks, countries with a high burden of TB stand to gain a lot by investing more to curb the disease and ...
Global health funding calls can act as gatekeepers—favoring well-resourced institutions while creating heavy, often wasted proposal burdens. This Opinion calls for fairer, more transparent, & efficient commissioning to broaden participation & reduce inequities. 🌍📄
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
“As Ebola spreads in East Africa, the United States is playing a much smaller role than it has in previous outbreaks. That leaves China, an economic powerhouse with epidemic control and biotech expertise, as the next global power that could commit supplies, money and medical workers to the effort”
