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Jon Shaffer

(He/Him)
  • Contributor, Freelance
  • Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Vermont
Baltimore, Burlington
As seen in: Rolling Stone, STAT, The Eagle-Tribune, The Citizen - VT, Addison County Independent, Peste Magazine
Covers:  global health, health equity, politics, infectious diseases, sociology, social movements, labor politics, labor unions
Assistant Professor of Sociology @UVMVermont | @PesteMagazine | STS | Med Soc | Social Movements | Prev. @BUSociologydept @BermanInstitute @R2HAction @EngagePIH
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Cholera outbreak reaches Haitian prison. They must be rescued. - PESTE

Cholera outbreak reaches Haitian prison. They must be rescued. - PESTE

Without immediate evacuation and medical attention, more than three thousand people face near certain illness…

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Longtermism, or How to Get-Out-Of-Caring While Feeling Moral and Smart - PESTE

Longtermism, or How to Get-Out-Of-Caring While Feeling Moral and Smart - PESTE

Should you read What We Owe the Future before you die or should you die first? By Jon Shaffer There is a lot …

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The De-socializing of Jim Kim?

The De-socializing of Jim Kim?

What does it mean for a financial institution like the World Bank to move closer and become more like a “crea…

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Better Red Than Dead - PESTE

Better Red Than Dead - PESTE

We're getting killed and they're making a killing along the way. This is the thrust of Beatrice Adler-Bolton …

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Detained in Haiti's National Penitentiary, Men Describe Horrors of Cholera Outbreak - PESTE

Detained in Haiti's National Penitentiary, Men Describe Horrors of Cholera Outbreak - PESTE

We have gathered a number of first-hand accounts of the cholera outbreak from men inside the Haitian National…

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Lives 'Not Worth Saving': Asylum Seekers Deported from U.S. and Detained in Haiti - PESTE

Lives 'Not Worth Saving': Asylum Seekers Deported from U.S. and Detained in Haiti - PESTE

Under Department of Homeland Security policy, people with felony criminal convictions are ineligible for asyl…

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Biden should use emergency powers to license Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the WHO for global ...

Biden should use emergency powers to license Covid-19 vaccine technologies to the WHO for global ...

resident Biden's aggressive new timetable for the sprint to full vaccine availability - his target for crossi…

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Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: authoritarian love in the time of TB

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un: authoritarian love in the time of TB

President Donald Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis - the airborne bacter…

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