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Lowkey troublemaker. Podcaster. Epidemiology MSc. concerned w public health, racism, surveillance. Chaotic bisexual. Black. Immigrant. She/her. Opinions my own.
Mar 10, 2025 10 tweets 3 min read
✨NEW EPISODE 🎧 Even 5 years into the ongoing COVID pandemic, public health leaders have stuck to the idea that sprayed droplets are the main way COVID (+influenza etc) spread. But a lot of disease transmission happens through the air we share and many people still don’t know 1/ Painting with pink tint of a woman smiling and holding a skull with the words “Public Health is Dead” on top. There is pink paint splattered around the text. Different diseases spread differently. Interrupting the ways they spread is a major part of public health’s job. With our growing understanding of pathogens, we thought we knew it all. But pride comes before a fall. This episode is the story of how we flew too close to the sun 2/ Graphic for Public Health is Dead podcast episode showing an old black and white engraving of Icarus falling on top of a background of a green and gold microscope image of H5N1
Aug 8, 2024 7 tweets 2 min read
Ok, I think it's time to share... "Public Health is Dead" is a real podcast I am (slowly) making. This show is a forward-thinking autopsy on how we’ve f*cked up in public health. How do we prepare for inevitable future pandemics while we’re already in the thick of one? /1 Podcast cover art with purple-lined, pink graph paper for the background. There is a purple anatomical skull and the words Public Health is Dead on top And how can we reinvent the systems that place some of us closer to death? Through past successes and failures, often through the lens of COVID, we plot a path out of apathy and denial towards a thriving public health for the people. /2
Sep 30, 2023 11 tweets 3 min read
Today is #TruthAndReconciliationDay and also #InternationalPodcastDay so here are a few Indigenous podcast recommendations to diversify your playlist and listen to Indigenous Peoples on the rest of the days of the year, too 🧵 1. Stolen: Surviving St. Michael's by @connie_walker, an icon who should be a household name at this point. A deeply personal journey into the intergenerational violence of residential "schools" in Canada and tbh the best podcast I have ever listened to pod.link/1554011083
Dec 14, 2020 17 tweets 5 min read
My family has COVID & the health authority told my mom that if her lips turn blue to go to the hospital. She’s Black. Her lips will not turn blue. This is how public health sets us up for poor health outcomes + nudges us towards death by operating with whiteness as the norm.