Marc Lipsitch
Professor of Epidemiology Harvard Chan SPH, Director, @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social. Views my own.
- cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/content/cisa... In my new role at @stanfordcisac.bsky.social, I'm recruiting for a postdoc to define how benefits of risky research should be evaluated. w Tony Mills of @notredame.bsky.social . #philsci #biosecurity #scipolicy
- New preprint reporting a large piece of work by Katherine Jia to define estimands and estimators for direct impact of vaccines with arbitrary rollout schedules arxiv.org/abs/2509.05508 with Alyssa Bilinski, @chrisboyer.bsky.social and me
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- Very pleased to share this newly published work with Aishani Aatresh, part of her exceptional Harvard undergrad thesis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... .
- Reposted by Marc LipsitchCheck out "Are We Prepared for the Next Pandemic?"- CCDD Director, @mlipsitch.bsky.social's conversation with Sam Harris, host of the Making Sense podcast. www.samharris.org/podcasts/mak...
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- Deeply affecting article by an @hsph.harvard.edu PhD student denied the opportunity to graduate due to blanket exclusion of Sierra Leone citizens by the US Government. A very particular example of pointless cruelty by the US Government. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
- Remarkable open letter to the director from NIH staff on the health, financial,academic freedom, and other impacts of changes at the agency. www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-dec...
- Reposted by Marc LipsitchThe goal is plainly and literally to cut the number of people involved in basic science in the US by 70%
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- Great piece by @hsph.harvard.edu colleague Maitreyi Mazumdar about how NIH's evisceration of overseas research collaborations harm the US as well as the partner countries www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/o...
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- The Department of Health and Human Services has a process for making and updating recommendations like this, using expert scientists and clinicians. RFK is deliberately putting Americans' health at risk and sidestepping good science for political reasons.
- As the quality of health advice becomes more politicized and arbitrary, and less science-based Americans are going to have to turn to state health officials (some of them) or other countries for good advice.
- Reposted by Marc LipsitchThe Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program was central in improving the evidence base for health policies and interventions, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central & Southern Asia - figure by @aasli.bsky.social. Our preprint on the termination of the DHS Program: osf.io/preprints/so...
- Reposted by Marc LipsitchI'm a current Harvard graduate student and I found out today that I had my NSF GRFP terminated without notification. I was awarded this individual research fellowship before even choosing Harvard as my graduate school
- Please consider a comment today if you are in the US. See the advice (shared from an email I received) in the follow-up posts below this one. Tomorrow is the deadline. This is an important part of scientific freedom in this country.
- Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .
- Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .
- An easily overlooked consequence of research funding cancellations: completed research these days requires hundreds to several thousand dollars to be published due to publication fees from journals. Without support for these fees many pieces of scientific work will be near invisible.
- This is pure authoritarianism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/u...
- Reposted by Marc Lipsitch🎓 The GOP’s reconciliation bill is a direct hit on higher ed: – $351B in cuts education & workforce programs – eliminating subsidized student loans – Taxes on scholarships & endowments – & more. ACE calls it a “full-out assault” on access to college. Read below ⬇️ www.acenet.edu/News-Room/Pa...
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- Important public service reporting from @statnews.com on how people are getting their NIH grants reinstated www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/r...
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- Reposted by Marc LipsitchLooking for examples of beautiful, controversial or impactful microbial modelling papers - ideally a mixture of the above! It’s for teaching in the context of microbial eco/evo/epi. The modelling should be relatively easy to understand for a master’s student with a biology background.
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- New Brief Report out in @pnas.org with Katherine Budeski: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Focusing a virus risk ranking tool on prediction -- highlighting the importance of training models for viral emergence only on data available before emergence has happened.
- Reposted by Marc Lipsitch1. For the past thirty years I've had the best job in the world. I've had the opportunity to follow my curiosity; explore the workings of nature and society; mentor students and junior colleagues in the same process; and teach generations of students about it all.
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- Reposted by Marc LipsitchBREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/
- Reposted by Marc LipsitchI've already had two federal grants terminated and face a 33% pay cut due to future terminations. It's painful, but not as painful as the conversations I'm having every day with brilliant trainees in graduate school and postdoctoral positions who see little future for themselves in US science.
- www.nytimes.com/2025/04/03/o... Really important piece to share widely. Too many Americans don’t know how severe a threat this Administration poses to our scientific infrastructure, global leadership, and health security
- New commentary on pandemic surveillance and the need to have it be repeatable/continuous for updating, out in @pnas.org with Freya Shearer of Uni Melbourne: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- New preprint on how to approach antimicrobial use and resistance from a causal perspective led by Juan Gago and @cboyer.bsky.social @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
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- Reposted by Marc LipsitchAAI encourages members and friends of #immunology to #StandUpforScience on March 7. Join the rally in Washington, D.C., or participate in the National Day of Action to uphold the integrity of science, protect its accessibility, and ensure its benefits serve all people! standupforscience2025.org
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- Reposted by Marc LipsitchBoston doesn’t listen to kings.
- Mayor @mayorwu.boston.gov told the truth to a congressional committee yesterday and made me proud to be a Bostonian and proud to have such a great mayor www.boston.com/news/local-n...
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- I just joined APHA bit.ly/3tPy1KU -- a strong advocate for public health right now. Encourage others to do the same!
- This should be really interesting.
- Follow the whole @harvardchanschool.bsky.social Starter Pack here bsky.app/starter-pack... Including @causalab.bsky.social , @harvardcchange.bsky.social , and numerous faculty.at://did:plc:4dxyov6asq7t4la62htnzt2q/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lgdnjnr5fc2z
