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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

Peste Magazine — Without immediate evacuation and medical attention, more than three thousand people face near certain illness and may die.
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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

Peste Magazine — Should you read What We Owe the Future before you die or should you die first? By Jon Shaffer There is a lot to agree with in William MacAskill's new book, What We Owe the Future, until you seriously engage with his argument.
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The De-socializing of Jim Kim?

The De-socializing of Jim Kim?

somatosphere.net — What does it mean for a financial institution like the World Bank to move closer and become more like a “creature of Wall Street”? Why would a life-long champion and scholar of health and human rights make common cause with those responsible for the 2008 global financial crisis, which has harmed health particularly amongst the poor and vulnerable?
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Better Red Than Dead - PESTE

Better Red Than Dead - PESTE

Peste Magazine — We're getting killed and they're making a killing along the way. This is the thrust of Beatrice Adler-Bolton and Artie Vierkant's new book, , which is out today with Verso Books.
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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

Peste Magazine — We have gathered a number of first-hand accounts of the cholera outbreak from men inside the Haitian National Penitentiary for others to use in their reporting.
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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

Peste Magazine — Under Department of Homeland Security policy, people with felony criminal convictions are ineligible for asylum, even if they've served their sentences. For Patrick Julney and others, it means deportation and detention in one of the world's most brutal prisons.
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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 ...

STAT — resident Biden's aggressive new timetable for the sprint to full vaccine availability - his target for crossing the finish line is May 1 - is welcome news for Americans. But it obscures the fact that to truly protect people living in the United States, it's essential to get shots into the arms of every person on the planet.
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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

STAT — President Donald Trump, North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis - the airborne bacterium responsible for causing tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet - are embroiled in a potentially awkward three-way love triangle. I wish this was the setup to a late-night talk show host's punchline, but it isn't.
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