Today we sit down with Dr. James Alwine who is a virologist, a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Academy for Microbiology and a member of the coordinating committee of the public health movement Defend Public Health. We discuss his oped ed Trump is Killing Life Saving Health Research where he highlights the need for our scientific, medical and public health communities to fight back at this moment of our current administration and the impact of federal decisions on local day to day experiences. We need to be loud. We need to get out of our labs and clinics and from behind our desks and let our communities know how important this work is to their day to day lives, their babies, their spouses, their neighbors. It is a short but powerful discussion about the magic of science and how scientists dont have secrets we will talk you to death about our love of the work and how we actually cured cancer!
Please see the link to his oped here https://progressive.org/op-eds/trump-is-killing-life-saving-health-research-alwine-20250416/
Please see the link to the oped from Elizabeth Jacobs
https://tucson.com/opinion/column/local-opinion-robert-f-kennedy-jr-is-dangerous-for-the-health-and-economy-of-arizona/article_6bc1d020-e2f9-11ef-b359-6732f13f6300.html
Please see link to Dr. Aimee's oped The Critical Need for Science Funding https://frontporchne.com/opinion-the-critical-need-for-science-funding/
Join Defend Public Health by emailing defendingpublichealth@gmail.com
Send us your questions and comments at drtonianddraimee@gmail.com.
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