Hi, biomedical scientist who works in cancer & infectious disease life sciences biotech here:

•Banning US scientists from communicating with the WHO is a threat to humanity.

•Banning public communications about emerging health risks including disease outbreaks and food recalls is a threat to humanity.

•Banning scientists from attending research conferences where we discuss emerging data in the field is a threat to humanity.

None of this will make us more healthy.

It will harm everyone.

The WHO, like any organization, is imperfect, but global science collaboration is ESSENTIAL.

Some things the WHO has done:

•Saved 27 million children from dying from measles through global vaccination programs

•Led the development of oral rehydration solution (ORS), saving 50 million lives & reducing diarrheal-disease associated mortality by 50%.

•Helped eradicate smallpox from all of humankind

•Led vaccine programs for polio, now only endemic in 2 countries compared to 125 countries as recently as 1988

•Reduced global malaria deaths by 45% in the last 25 years.

If you don’t care about these things, your privilege is showing.

I am currently sitting in Manas, Assam India, a remote area near the Bhutan border.

Families here don’t have running water. If they do, it’s contaminated with pathogens we have eliminated through water treatment.

These communities, like billions of people, rely on the WHO. These families would kill to have access to vaccines that wellness influencers in the US are actively convincing people to refuse.

By abandoning our global responsibility and leaving these countries to fend for themselves, it increases the risk that these disease challenges will spread further.

Diseases don’t care about country borders.

Human health is only as good as the weakest link. What the Trump administration is doing will make all of us weaker and less healthy, causing preventable illness and death.

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