Nick Rizer, MD @nwrizer.bsky.social EM Physician and Health Policy Fellow
Policy Nerd & Pizza Snob
@healthpolicy.stanford.edu @healthpolicy.stanford.edu Stanford Health Policy: Interdisciplinary innovation, discovery and education to improve health policy here at home and around the world.
Boston University School of Public Health @busph.bsky.social Think. Teach. Do. For the health of all.
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @johnshopkinssph.bsky.social The @jhu.edu Bloomberg School of Public Health
https://publichealth.jhu.edu/
Margot Sanger-Katz @sangerkatz.bsky.social Covering health care at @nytimes.com. Enjoy metaphors. Dislike mixed metaphors.
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Adam Gaffney @awgaffney.bsky.social Pulmonary & ICU doctor, assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, past president PNHP, author "To Heal Humankind", dabbler, tweets my own.
Webpage: https://dradamgaffney.com/
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=KChlDTsAAAAJ&hl
Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social She/her. Award-winning health and science journalist. Investigative reporter at CIDRAP News. LizSzabo.30 on Signal. https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/all-news
Trust for America's Health (TFAH) @tfah.bsky.social TFAH is a non-profit, public health policy, research, and advocacy organization focused on optional health for every person and community through an evidence-based public health system and an emphasis on health equity and prevention.
Dr. Vanessa Sheppard @dr-vb-sheppard.bsky.social I am a population scientist focused on reducing cancer disparities. My research program centers on understanding and improving adherence to evidence-based medical therapies and developing interventions to promote the uptake of these therapies.
Michael Pignone, MD,MPH @mpignone.bsky.social Primary care - health equity- cancer screening and prevention- health services research
Atul Gawande @agawande.bsky.social Surgeon, Writer ("Being Mortal," "Checklist Manifesto"), and formerly led Global Health @USAID.
Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org The Union of Concerned Scientists puts rigorous, independent science to work to solve our planet's most pressing problems.
ucs.org
Brian Keyser @fellowwhopoints.bsky.social Health policy @americanprogress.bsky.social, focussing on consolidation, Medicare, PBMs, drug pricing, and systemic reforms. Believer in primary care. Recovering entrepreneur. Cheese evangelist. Theater lover. Traveler. All opinions my own.
Austin Frakt @afrakt.bsky.social Health Economist and Editor in Chief with expertise in health economics and policy analysis
Hardeep Singh MD MPH @hardeepsinghmd.bsky.social Professor, patient safety, health IT & climate action. PECASE Presidential Awardee 2014. https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/hardeep-singh-30838
Carrie Farmer @cmf11.bsky.social Health care and veterans policy researcher. Pittsburgher (New Englander at heart).
Reshma Ramachandran @reshmagar.bsky.social Assistant Professor, primary care physician, and health services researcher at Yale School of Medicine, Co-Director of the Yale Collaboration for Regulatory Rigor, Integrity, and Transparency (CRRIT); *views expressed here are my own*
Sandhya Raman @sandhyawrites.bsky.social Senior Healthcare Reporter for @bloomberglaw.com covering HHS and public health.
Signal: sandhyawrites.30 // Email: sraman@bloombergindustry.com
https://www.pronouncenames.com/Sandhya
Carina Storrs @carinastorrs.bsky.social NYC-based science and health journalist and writer. Always interested in infectious diseases. Also on about equity in science and healthcare. Mom to human and cats.
Gabriel Perna @gabrielsperna.bsky.social Digital Health Editor at Modern Healthcare
Stephanie Armour @stephaniearmour.bsky.social Senior Correspondent, KFF Health News. Former Wall Street Journal senior health reporter. Email tips to stephaniea@kff.org
Abby Abrams @abbyabrams.bsky.social Journalist covering health care and policy. Interested in reproductive health, disability, aging, health equity. Words in TIME, Guardian, Washington Post, Mother Jones, FiveThirtyEight, Women's Health.
Tara Bannow @tarabannow.bsky.social Reporter covering hospitals, health insurance, & all things money + health care for @statnews.bsky.social. Love a good horror movie.
Let's chat! tara.bannow@statnews.com
Sarah Lueck @sarahl202.bsky.social VP for Health Policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. DSM native and @WSJ alumna. Views expressed here are mine. she/her
Michael McAuliff @mcauliff.bsky.social Deputy congress editor at The Washington Sun. Priors include Crain's Modern Healthcare, HuffPost, New York Daily News, ABC News. Signal @mcauliff.06
Ashleigh Furlong @ashleighfurlong.bsky.social Health reporter at Bloomberg
Previously POLITICO and GroundUp News
Opinions my own
Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Health Policy at Vanderbilt w/ expertise in access to care, Medicaid, Veterans' health. Formerly Boston University, Department of Defense, US Army (CIV). Views are my own. #HealthEconomics #PublicHealth
Jess Morley @jessrmorley.bsky.social 100% health data nerd & OG swiftie. PhD Oxford Internet Institute. Previously Director of Policy Oxford Bennett Institute for Applied Data Science. Currently Associate Research Scientist, Yale Digital Ethics Center.
Louise Norris @louisenorris.bsky.social Health policy analyst. Health insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, health care reform. I write for healthinsurance.org, medicareresources.org, Verywell.com, and healthinsurancecolorado.net. She/Her
Bertha Coombs @berthacoombs.cnbc.com Former CNBC Senior Health Care Reporter | National Hispanic Health Research Institute Advisory Board Member
#HealthcareNerd #RedSoxFan #Cubana #Hiker
https://www.nhhri.org/
Maya Goldman @maya-goldman.bsky.social Axios health care reporter
maya.goldman@axios.com
Signal: mayagold.57 or 646-820-5874
Maya Kaufman @mayakaufman.bsky.social Covering politics, policy and power in health care for POLITICO New York
Tips: mkaufman@politico.com or mayakaufman.11 on Signal
Howard P. Forman @thehowie.bsky.social Physician, Professor, Melancholic Optimist 🏳️🌈
(Health Policy, Health Economics, Finance, Politics, Public Health, Radiology)
New Haven, CT
Co-Host, Health & Veritas Podcast: https://insights.som.yale.edu/podcasts/health-veritas
Bob Herman @bobjherman.bsky.social Health care business reporter for @statnews.com and its Health Care Inc. newsletter. Contact: bob.herman@statnews.com or bobjherman.09 on Signal. Sign up: https://www.statnews.com/signup/health-care-inc/
Stan Dorn @standorn.bsky.social Health advocate/researcher for about 40 years, now health policy director at UnidosUS. Opinions posted here are my own. Wonderful kids and spouse. Jewishly involved. Jazz piano. Science fiction. Opera. He/him. Shared responsibility for two puzzling cats.
Elaine Hernandez @emhernandez.bsky.social Inequities in health are ubiquitous. I study the processes that create and perpetuate them.
Medical sociology (PhD), health policy (MPH), & health demography.
Personal account
Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social Health policy especially Medicaid, CHIP and the Affordable Care Act. Research Professor at the Center for Children and Families (CCF) at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy.
ccf.georgetown.edu
Jose Figueroa, MD, MPH @joefigs.bsky.social Doctor @BrighamWomens | Associate Prof of Health Policy & Management @HarvardHPM @HarvardHSPH | @harvardmed | Faculty Director of BWH MLP Program
Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social Political scientist. Health policy prof at Pitt (Secondary appts: Poli Sci, SPIA). Cal bear, Columbia PhD. Bylines: NYT, WaPo, Guardian, MS NOW. Writing on health insurance and admin burden. Author of Coverage Denied (CUP): https://cup.org/4nfM2IM
Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Politics at @hsph.harvard.edu
I study how administrative burdens impede health insurance coverage, strategies to reduce these barriers, and the politics of health reform
she/her/Michigander
adriannamcintyre.com
Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social Medical Geographer & Health Services Researcher \ Wife & Mother \ Avid Reader, Foodie, & Gardener \ Cal, UChicago, & UIUC alumna \ Personal account \ Not actually a Lego- A Anna Maria Barry-Jester @annamaria.bsky.social Public health journalist with ProPublica
Annie Waldman @anniewaldman.bsky.social Covering health care @ProPublica. Signal: 347-549-0332. Email: annie.waldman@propublica.org. (Also #COYS)
Sophia Yen MD MPH @drsophiayen.bsky.social Feminist, reproductive freedom activist, #periodsOptional, #stopsuckingitup ladies, co-founder of pandiahealth.com the ONLY #WomenFounded #WomenLed #DoctorLed birth control delivery company + expert menopause care #momsky
Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land Chronically ill public health JD writing to make sense of the policy hellscape so you don't have to do it alone. Actionable analysis & trustworthy guidance for people the system wasn't built to protect. Free & paid: ShouldntNeed.com
Sr. Fellow DFP. 🏳️⚧️nb
Katherine Hempstead @khemp.bsky.social Senior Policy Adviser, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Author of “Uncovered: The Story of Insurance in America.”
Nurses For America @nursesforamerica.bsky.social We support nursing, democracy, health access/equity, repro rights, gun safety, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid, healthy climate
Insta/Threads: @nurses_for_america
https://nursesforamerica.net
Dr. Curmudgeon @altgovdoc.altgov.info General health and science information
#medsky #emedsky
Posts 🚫 med advice. Please, seek the care of your physician if you have any concerns.
Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social Facts & strategy, in an authoritarian takeover.
Rightwing billionaires want to privatize NIH and use it to control universities.
We work to cure diseases like cancer.
Pers views. #science #medicine
Alt Health and Human Services @alt-hhs.altgov.info Promoting health and science and resistance against pseudoscience, disinformation, and fascism.
Dr. Vin Gupta @vinguptamd.bsky.social Physician | Communicator | Health Technology Leader
drvingupta.com
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♦️Host, Meidas Health
♦️Pulmonologist/ICU Doc
♦️USAF Medical Reserves Corps
♦️American Lung Assoc Board of Directors
Laura Packard @laurapackard.com Health policy and health justice advocate, cancer survivor & founder @healthcarevoices.org @voicesofhealthcare.org, progressive small biz owner PowerThru, host weekly streaming health care call-in show & podcast #CareTalk, she/her
Ed Yong is offline @edyong209.bsky.social Writer, journalist. Science, health. Pandemics, animals. Birder, photographer. Many words, some awards. AN IMMENSE WORLD, I CONTAIN MULTITUDES. Married to Liz Neeley, parent to Typo. he/him
📷 Canon R6mkii + RF 800mm
Edyong.me
Grace @grace1-12.bsky.social Former clinical dentist & now a dental clinic partner in New York. 🗽 When I’m not analyzing dental trends, I’m tracking planes in the sky. Aviation lover. ✈️
lawrencedunhill.bsky.social @lawrencedunhill.bsky.social Health Journalist & Policy Analyst.
Previously Bureau Chief at the Health Service Journal & Public Policy Fellow at Princeton University. Winner of British Journalism, BSME & MJA awards
Bookshelfie ⭐️ @bookshelfie.bsky.social The Self-Pub Hub (Book Review and Story Site)
Submissions open now:
https://book-shelfie.com/submissions
Book tour inquiries: contact@book-shelfie.com
Dr.PAMISHA SUTRADHAR @pamishasutradhar.bsky.social Assistant Publisher From Scholars Journal Publication Service
John Grosser @johngrosser.bsky.social Health Economics / Empirical Bioethics Researcher
@ Bielefeld University School of Public Health
Main Research Topics:
- Medical AI and Physician Autonomy,
- Measuring (Relational and Informational) Continuity of Care
Max Perutz Labs Vienna @maxperutzlabs.ac.at The Max Perutz Labs are a joint venture of the University of Vienna and the Medical University of Vienna, dedicated to a mechanistic understanding of fundamental biomedical processes.
David S. F. Portree @dsfpspacefl1ght.bsky.social history guy, science writer, educator, map librarian, archivist, 58 yrs a space exploration nut, ex-NASA, ex-US Geological Survey, now doing local history among the pines in Flagstaff AZ USA
Save NASA space science
https://spaceflighthistory.blogspot.com
Nicholas A. Christakis @nachristakis.bsky.social Sterling Professor of Social and Natural Science at Yale University. Sociologist. Network Scientist. Physician. Author of Apollo's Arrow; Blueprint; Connected; and Death Foretold. Director of the Human Nature Lab: https://humannaturelab.net
Nick Bostock @nickbostock.bsky.social Deputy editor at https://www.GPonline.com and https://www.GPBusiness.co.uk, contributor to the Talking General Practice podcast: https://podfollow.com/talking-gp
Imelda McDermott @imcdermott.bsky.social Social scientist researching health policy, primary care, commissioning, and workforce.
https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/imelda.mcdermott
Health Policy & Politics Network (HPPN) https://hppnuk.wordpress.com/
#academicsky
Orkan Okan 🦋 @orkanokan.bsky.social Professor of #HealthLiteracy, Technical University of Munich, School of Medicine & Health, Dept. of Health & Sport Sciences, WHO CC Health Literacy: @whocc-hl.bsky.social & https://www.hs.mh.tum.de/en/healthliteracy/home/, EUPHA HLS: @eupha-hls.bsky.social
Jeremy Horwood @jhorwood.bsky.social Professor of Social Sciences, Uni of Bristol. Research: tackling inequities in HIV, sexual health, public health, primary care • intervention co-design, evaluation, implementation • qualitative methods.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7092-4960
Claire Niedzwiedz @drcenz.bsky.social Mental health, wellbeing, health inequalities and relationships with climate change.
Andrew Gregory @andrewgregory.com Editor, Health @theguardian.com
Foundation for the Sociology of Health and Illness @fshi.bsky.social Our objectives are to promote and improve social scientific research, education and scholarship in the field of the sociology of health and illness.
https://www.shifoundation.org.uk
Glyn Elwyn BA MD MSc PhD @glynelwyn.bsky.social Professor at Dartmouth Institute of Health Policy & Clinical Practice. Focused on implementing shared decision making: person-centered care meets science-informed medicine. www.glynelwyn.com | Podcast Clinical Innovation https://www.unleashedpodcast.org/
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social News and expert comment from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) one of the world's leading #PublicHealth universities. https://linktr.ee/lshtm
Dr Mélissa Mialon @melissamialon.bsky.social Research Chair (France) & Trinity College Dublin/HRB Research Fellow (Ireland) | Commercial determinants of health, Corporate Political Activity| Epistemic Justice | Feminist | French & Mauritian
https://www.sante-pouvoirs.fr/en/
Department of General Practice and Primary Care UniMelb @dgppc.bsky.social Promoting excellence in general practice and primary care through research, education and innovation.
The King's Fund @thekingsfund.bsky.social The King's Fund is an independent charity working to improve people's health. Our vision is a world where everyone can live a healthy life. https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/
Julian Treadwell @juliantreadwell.bsky.social GP. NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer, CAPC, Bristol Uni.
Project lead www.gpevidence.org
RCGP Overdiagnosis Group, NICE GP Reference Panel, Assoc Editor DTB
Elke Hausmann @drelke.bsky.social German, English, Spanish
Sociology, Medicine, General Practice
Tara George @tarageorge.bsky.social GP and Training Programme Director in North Derbyshire. Medical Education. #MedEd Medical Humanities. Host of bedsidereading.bsky.social
https://bedsidereading.buzzsprout.com/
Scottish Deep End Project @deependgp.bsky.social A collaboration between academic and frontline GPs/primary care staff working in the most socio-economically disadvantaged communities in Scotland. www.gla.ac.uk/deepend
@davebyrnedb.bsky.social @davebyrnedb.bsky.social GP | Palliative Medicine Dr | Researcher | RCSI PhD Candidate
Emma Parry @dreparry.bsky.social GP| Researcher interested in social determinants/ MSK/ pain| Zinc Fellow
Rakesh Patel @rakeshspatel.bsky.social Professor of Medical Education & Head of MBBS
@QMUL. Honesty, integrity, character, credibility, courage, conviction & community
Eugene Tang @eugeneyhtang.bsky.social NIHR Advanced Fellow | APCCU lead | NIHR RRDN NENC Specialty Group lead for General Practice | Interests in stroke, risk prediction, cognitive impairment and dementia, community pharmacy research. Views my own
https://linktr.ee/eugeneyhtang
NIHR School for Public Health Research @nihrsphr.bsky.social The National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR) School for Public Health Research (SPHR) aims to increase the evidence base for inclusive, equitable and cost-effective #PublicHealth practice.
Alice Harper @aliceharper.bsky.social NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Primary Care, University of Bristol
Karen Sankey @holisticmedic.bsky.social GP turned trauma trained Therapeutic Coach and Mentor , Social Entrepreneur passionate about addressing social and health inequities, Founder of the Community Wellness Company CIC and Lab , Curator of the Community Wellness model
Mark Howcutt @markhowcutt.bsky.social Buckinghamshire GP, GP Trainer, Senior GP Appraiser and Bucks LMC
The Institute of General Practice Management @theigpm.bsky.social The representative body for all Managers working in Primary Care in the UK.
Tara Humphrey @tarahumphrey.bsky.social 💼Founder and CEO THC Primary Care
🎙️Host of the Business of Healthcare Podcast https://thebusinessofhealthcare.libsyn.com
📝 Writer covering the business of primary care networks https://www.thcprimarycare.co.uk/blog
Seye Abimbola @seyeabimbola.bsky.social Writer, Teacher, Researcher | on Epistemic Practices in Health Systems and Global Health | @sydney.edu.au | Views expressed here are my own.
Khameer Kidia 🏳️🌈 @globalhealing.bsky.social Zimbabwean writer, anthropologist, global health physician. Views my own. (He/they).
Book: Empire of Madness (Crown, 2026)
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725148/empire-of-madness-by-khameer-kidia/
Stephen Barlow @steb77.bsky.social Naturalist, environmentalist, climate activist, nature photographer, very woke and proud of it.
Ingrid Muller @ingridmuller.bsky.social Health Psychologist and Professor of Behavioural Medicine, Primary Care Research Centre, University of Southampton
Yuya YOKOTA | Family Doctor(家庭医・総合診療医) @yuyayokota.bsky.social Family Doctor(家庭医・総合診療医)|Generalism|Health Humanities|Japan|Okayama University|research map(CV/PF): https://researchmap.jp/yktyy4110?lang=en | hometown:Kagawa
Nick Gardner @mrpilotdata.bsky.social Academic librarian, natural history researcher, and more.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicholas-Gardner-3
Natalie Joseph-Williams @njosephwilliams.bsky.social Reader in Improving Patient Care
Associate Director Health and Care Research Wales Evidence Centre
School of Medicine, Cardiff University
Passionate about person centred healthcare, shared decision making and involving patients as partners
Open Research Exeter @openresearchexe.bsky.social The Open Research Team in the Library at University of Exeter @exeter.ac.uk Posting about #OpenAccess #OpenResearch #OpenData #RDM
https://www.exeter.ac.uk/research/openresearch/
Pauline Dunne @paulinedunne.bsky.social Postdoctoral Research Fellow at RCSI School of Population Health.
CORÚ Registered Dietitian.
Research interests include maternal health, health promotion and chronic disease prevention.
She/Her. Views my own.
Mark Tully @markatully.bsky.social Professor of Public Health & Research Director, Ulster University.
Physical Activity Researcher
Personal account. RT≠endorsement
https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/mark-tully
Nick Boddy @drnickboddy.bsky.social Academic GP affiliated to the University of Nottingham. Research interests in patient safety and the Primary-Secondary Care Interface. Views my own.
Dr Joy McFadzean @joymcfadzean.bsky.social GP and Lecturer at Cardiff University
Research interests: patient safety, quality improvement and medical education
Tom O’Dowd @todowd.bsky.social