I'm a physician & epidemiologist focused on environmental health. I study how planetary changes such as climate change, the natural world, and the built environment affect our health and well-being, and how to protect both the planet and ourselveshttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lqvngapx5c2kThis impressive and sobering analysis documents (conservatively) the dreadful human impacts of rolling back environmental regulations. Congratulations to the AP team. Speak up for protecting our health and our environment! https://apnews.com/article/epa-zeldin-pollution-rules-analysis-savings-health-0a289aec2507ed38d386680afdd0ea4506 Jun 2025 01:06 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqvngapx5c2khttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lqss4klny22hThe Stockholm Declaration on Chemistry for the Future, released 10 days ago, now has almost 1000 signers. It's a visionary call for a "new chemistry for sustainability" that will protect people, prosperity, and the planet. I signed. Will you? www.stockholm-declaration.org https://www.stockholm-declaration.org/04 Jun 2025 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqss4klny22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lp63u2cuo22hBeautiful essay by @dralicechen.bsky.social and @drvivekmurthy.bsky.social. "Societies ... require people who are willing to speak up boldly and unapologetically for the dignity and well-being of others. Physicians have the power to be these people." https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp250249314 May 2025 22:56 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lp63u2cuo22hhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lort7kvq2c2vThis report documents further devastation of climate and health research at NIH. Among other responses, we need to be planning to restart such critical research once this madness ends--as it will. @docsforclimate.bsky.social @ecoamerica.bsky.social @apha.org https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-01423-210 May 2025 01:49 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lort7kvq2c2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lnoye46og22aGlad to share this short paper, just published, describing work at the National Academy of Medicine to promote broad system change (beyond the health sector) to confront climate change. @thirdactorg.bsky.social @katharinehayhoe.com @maibached.bsky.social https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)00813-X/fulltext26 Apr 2025 05:18 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnoye46og22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lnl22zsfpc2mCompelling article making the scientific case for legal liability of major fossil fuel companies. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-08751-324 Apr 2025 15:38 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnl22zsfpc2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3ln26durdi22dWhat a treat to hear the great Rita Colwell recount the story of Vibrio, human health, and climate here at UW School of Public Health.17 Apr 2025 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ln26durdi22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lm6o4zjbwc2sI never imagined a world in which, when an HHS Secretary states that vaccines are the most effective way to prevent measles, it counts as news. A bit like NASA confirming the theory of gravity. https://www.statnews.com/2025/04/06/rfk-jr-measles-statement-west-texas-outbreak/07 Apr 2025 00:07 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lm6o4zjbwc2shttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lkenhqizps26Looking forward to joining Hannah Murphy Winter of @thestranger.com, Mickey Fearn, Ashley Townes, and Joycelyn Chui for a wonderful Earth Day event at @townhallseattle.bsky.social. We'll be talking about climate equity, park equity, health equity, and the connections among them.14 Mar 2025 22:21 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lkenhqizps26https://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3ljbjh32svs23An incisive commentary about a gut-wrenching moment in US history. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/ukraine-us-relations-trump/681880/28 Feb 2025 23:06 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3ljbjh32svs23https://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lipu6vyilk2oHad the honor and pleasure of coffee with the phenomenal @govjayinslee.bsky.social today. We talked about standing with science, communicating the climate crisis, resisting the abuses and lies of the administration. Then we both biked home! @docsforclimate.bsky.social @thirdactorg.bsky.social21 Feb 2025 22:30 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lipu6vyilk2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3linczqw56k2aWow. The PubMed site is down. Is this just a temporary glitch or have they killed it too?20 Feb 2025 22:18 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3linczqw56k2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/howardfrumkin.bsky.social/post/3lifr643r7c2yWhen @govjayinslee.bsky.social lends his support, you know you're doing something right! [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Feb 2025 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:2ni6idmnssmdragn7i3hd6oh/app.bsky.feed.post/3lifr643r7c2y