Professor of Epidemiology Harvard Chan SPH, Director, @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social. Views my own.https://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3m2ian43b2c2n https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/content/cisac-fellowship-program#cis 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 #scipolicy05 Oct 2025 23:25 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2ian43b2c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lyfowivsxs2hNew 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 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.0550809 Sep 2025 12:12 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyfowivsxs2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lxar3yu6ss2uVery pleased to share this newly published work with Aishani Aatresh, part of her exceptional Harvard undergrad thesis. https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/mbio.02033-25 .25 Aug 2025 19:43 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lxar3yu6ss2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3ls22horz4227Deeply 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. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/jun/20/missing-harvard-graduation-trump-travel-ban?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other20 Jun 2025 12:36 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls22horz4227https://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lr6kaeidgs2eRemarkable open letter to the director from NIH staff on the health, financial,academic freedom, and other impacts of changes at the agency. https://www.standupforscience.net/bethesda-declaration09 Jun 2025 14:03 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lr6kaeidgs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lqcpra5yjk2yGreat 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 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/05/29/opinion/nih-cuts-international-research/?event=event1229 May 2025 12:28 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqcpra5yjk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lq62bdldak26The 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]27 May 2025 15:52 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lq62bdldak26https://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lprehmpwi22cPlease 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. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 May 2025 14:50 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lprehmpwi22chttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lpr2ehkbak2uTime 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: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-04-23/pdf/2025-06904.pdf . Comment here (green button) https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/04/23/2025-06904/improving-performance-accountability-and-responsiveness-in-the-civil-service .22 May 2025 11:50 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpr2ehkbak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lpqz6cwg7c2uAn 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.22 May 2025 11:28 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpqz6cwg7c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lpp3xfiu6k2eThis is pure authoritarianism. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/21/us/politics/trump-justice-department-ed-martin-weaponization.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c&pvid=07912F4A-C59C-4718-8ECE-FA8462FF64FC21 May 2025 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpp3xfiu6k2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lpkutu6ihs2uImportant public service reporting from @statnews.com on how people are getting their NIH grants reinstated https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/research-cuts-scientists-reverse-grant-terminations-through-lobbying-lawsuits-networking/ https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/19/research-cuts-scientists-reverse-grant-terminations-through-lobbying-lawsuits-networking/?utm_campaign=stat_plus_today&utm_medium=email&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9W04kKzhrj6DQ2Izr4xSm_XHb4Sg5QmNgOAhnGIH0o7cKoGdDH7WanBCKf9xBzmP8FBeKW2LFWfHLwwEPKMvKQmEj7Td7fy9rSnOCVMBpKIUCqmTs&_hsmi=362262745&utm_content=362262745&utm_source=hs_email20 May 2025 00:55 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lpkutu6ihs2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/mlipsitch.bsky.social/post/3lmzqc73las2cNew Brief Report out in @pnas.org with Katherine Budeski: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2419337122 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.17 Apr 2025 18:28 +0000at://did:plc:sjo2b7mxgubpyvib2vuongv7/app.bsky.feed.post/3lmzqc73las2c