MEDICINE / INFECTIOUS DISEASES / EPIDEMIOLOGY / JOURNALISM
🔹 Editor-at-Large for Public Health at @KFFhealthnews.bsky.social
🔹 Medical Correspondent for CBS News
🔹 Prof/Doc at NYU Grossman School of Medicine & Bellevue Hospital
Dr. Céline Gounder
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How to Stay Healthy at the World Cup
The federal government didn’t prepare. You still can.
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Europe Got This Sunscreen in 2000. America Just Caught Up.
Europeans have used bemotrizinol since 2000. It took a reform hidden in the 2020 COVID relief bill for Americans to get it, and a decade of advocacy before that.
Read & subscribe (for free!) www.celinegounder.com/p/sunscreen-...
Why a 3,572-pregnancy study can’t tell you Ozempic is safe in pregnancy
Birth defects happen in 3% of births. Telling 3% from 4% takes far more pregnancies than this study had, which is why “no increased risk” isn’t the same as “safe.”
www.celinegounder.com/p/glp1-pregn...
Why the U.S. Is Unprepared for a Potential Public Health Outbreak at the World Cup
The federal government spent $625 million on World Cup security—and none of it went to public health. Just days away from the tournament, major concerns remain.
www.si.com/soccer/why-u...
Mosquito Season at the World Cup: What Fans Need to Know
From Mexico City to Miami, mosquitoes carry serious viruses. A quick guide for travelers.
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www.celinegounder.com/p/world-cup-...
A Diabetes Society Had Police Remove the Editor of Its Own Journal. Then It Apologized.
"Diabetes research saved my life," one patient wrote. A proposed rule would let political appointees kill any grant.
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Grant Wahl Should Be Covering this World Cup
The 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.
www.celinegounder.com/p/grant-wahl...
The Companies That Made Marlboro Made Your Food
A special issue of the American Journal of Public Health traces ultra-processed foods to tobacco engineering, links them to dementia, and finds 80% of Americans want action.
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The CDC’s Own Workers Are Calling It Abandonment
The union, the reversal, the escaped cases, and the World Cup — here's where things stand.
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Very happy to have @ericwahl.bsky.social in this collection from residents of World Cup host cities, writing about Kansas City and his brother, Grant, who meant so much to so many of us: www.theguardian.com/football/202...
"Diabetes research saved my life," one patient wrote. A proposed rule would let political appointees kill any grant.
www.celinegounder.com
A special issue of the American Journal of Public Health traces ultra-processed foods to tobacco engineering, links them to dementia, and finds 80% of Americans want action.
In the first of a new series of dispatches, fans in US, Mexico and Canada tell us that they want visitors to have a good time but are angry about ticket prices, Fifa’s priorities and a lack of long-te...
The federal government didn’t prepare. You still can.
www.celinegounder.com
www.celinegounder.com
Europeans have used bemotrizinol since 2000. It took a reform hidden in the 2020 COVID relief bill for Americans to get it, and a decade of advocacy before that.
From Mexico City to Miami, mosquitoes carry serious viruses. A quick guide for travelers.
www.celinegounder.com
The federal government allocated $625 million to World Cup security—and none of it went to public health. Days away from the tournament, major concerns remain.
The 2026 World Cup has no public health command. The Ebola outbreak has reached 350 cases. And the journalist who would have asked the hardest questions isn’t here.
Birth defects happen in 3% of births. Telling 3% from 4% takes far more pregnancies than this study had, which is why “no increased risk” isn’t the same as “safe.”
