Thomas Piggott MD PhD

Thomas Piggott MD PhD

@twpiggott.bsky.social

Medical Officer of Health & CEO @phlakelands.bsky.social researcher @hei_mcmaster | dad, doctor, dreamer

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

When I hear about the Cornell 7, I had just had an experience at the playground with my daughter. It serves to remind us of the patriarchal structures that allowed such an apparently disgusting rape and complicity to have occurred.

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Paris Marx
@parismarx.com

Just when I think I can’t hate OpenAI and Sam Altman any more, new details come out about how ChatGPT helped a shooter plan one of the worst mass shootings in Canadian history in Tumbler Ridge, BC. OpenAI made an explicit decision not to report the user to authorities.

motherjones.comChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation revealsOpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.

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The Energy Mix
@theenergymix.com

Canadian workers are speaking out against the possibility that their retirement savings could fund the #LNGCanada liquefied natural gas megaproject. While the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has repeatedly signalled interest in the oil and gas sector.

theenergymix.comPension Beneficiaries Fear Funds Will Pour Retirement Savings Into LNGAs Ottawa looks to pension funds to finance major energy projects and LNG Canada moves to double production in Kitimat, beneficiaries warn their retirement savings could become their “biggest contribu...
Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

Depressing Confession of a daily cyclist This month is the Shifting Gears @ptbogreenup campaign to increase active transit. If we want more people to walk, cycle etc. let's make sure it's safer for them to do so. What are your thoughts, comment below 👇

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Jeannine Taylor
@wiredwoman.bsky.social

Thank you for the interview @twpiggott.bsky.social. This is the third story in our @kawarthanow.bsky.social series on the CTS closure in Peterborough. The other stories are linked inside this recent story and interview with Dr. Piggott.

kawarthaNOW@kawarthanow.bsky.social

'It's not a hypothetical': Medical officer of health says #Ptbo CTS closure will drive more overdoses to ER. Local public health and harm reduction experts warn the loss of the supervised consumption site will ripple across the healthcare system. kawarthanow.com/2026/05/23/i...

kawarthanow.com‘It’s not a hypothetical’: Medical officer of health says Peterborough CTS closure will drive more overdoses to ER | kawarthaNOWBy Bethan Bates. Local public health and harm reduction experts warn the loss of the supervised consumption site will ripple across the healthcare system.
Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

The people I met, in particular healthcare workers, when I was in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 in 2018 were some of the most caring and resilient I’ve ever had the chance to know.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD
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What I think is needed now are resources, support and solidarity channeled through @who and trusted organizations like @msf. They don’t need the world’s fear-mongering, walls and more isolation. Supporting each other’s health is also how we protect our own health.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

The people I met, in particular healthcare workers, when I was in South Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo 🇨🇩 in 2018 were some of the most caring and resilient I’ve ever had the chance to know.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

My heart breaks 💔for what so many communities are going through right now. Healthcare workers I met were tremendously capable, including managing complex #ebola outbreaks in a complex geography, despite consistent exposure to violence, colonial harms, inadequate resources and ongoing exploitation.

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J. Offir, PhD
@joffirphd.bsky.social

“'This is the most striking example so far of how much the dissolution of USAID and destruction of CDC’s role around the world is threatening our national security,' said Stephanie Psaki, who was U.S. coordinator for global health security" under Biden. 🧵1/4 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

washingtonpost.comWhy this Ebola outbreak will be so difficult to containWith the death toll rising sharply, the head of the World Heath Organization said he was
Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

The t-shirt says it all. Do we aspire to health for all or health for some in Ontario and Canada? The closure of the CTS in Peterborough is resulting in more outside use of drugs and healthcare strain here my story from my run last night.

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Canadian Climate Institute
@climateinstitute.bsky.social

Canada’s MOU agreement with Alberta puts the country’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 firmly out of reach. Read our full statement from @rjcsmith.bsky.social ⬇️ climateinstitute.ca/news/mou-wit...

climateinstitute.caMOU with Alberta puts Canada’s commitment to net zero emissions by 2050 firmly out of reach - Canadian Climate InstituteThe MOU agreement’s unreasonable compromises on industrial carbon markets and clean electricity regulations, and the implications for weakening policies in other provinces, will undermine emissions re...
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Thomas Piggott MD PhD
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This will support health guideline panels in addressing the urgent need to ground human health decisions in the planetary health context. Please have a read. Can you use it in upcoming guidance? Comment Below.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

GRADE Guidance 46: Integrating Planetary Health in Health Guidelines comes from 2 in-person workshops, more than 40 monthly meetings, thousands of emails/file edits, and countless discussions and debates using real guideline examples to create practical and aspirational guidance to improve the field

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BK. Titanji
@boghuma.bsky.social

The CDC is really is no where to be found because of its deliberate destruction. You CDC cruise ship inspectors were laid off in April 2025. No surprise it has been crickets from HHS and CDC leadership on the situation with the Hanta virus cruise ship situation. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

cbsnews.comCDC's cruise ship inspectors laid off amid bad year for outbreaksThe steep cuts to the cruise ship inspection team baffled officials in the program, which is not paid for by taxpayer dollars.

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CIDRAP
@cidrap.bsky.social

COVID vaccines are tied to less hospital care, long COVID, and economic burden. A large study in Germany shows lower hospitalization, all-cause death rates, and health care costs in vaccinated people. Read more: ow.ly/XG0E50YMTht

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

I just finished my last quarterly meeting with staff at the soon to be closed Consumption and Treatment Site. This is a loss for our community, that, come summer, will be seen in our streets, ambulances, emerges and in deaths of people using drugs.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

Got so enraged, had to do a video

Thomas Piggott MD PhD@twpiggott.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder: the nearly evidence-less ‘wellness industry’ is worth $7 trillion per year, 4X the pharmaceutical industry. I think it is great to be critical about pharmaceuticals, while maintaining sanity and understanding that meds have a key place in treatment and secondary prevention.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

Your friendly reminder: the nearly evidence-less ‘wellness industry’ is worth $7 trillion per year, 4X the pharmaceutical industry. I think it is great to be critical about pharmaceuticals, while maintaining sanity and understanding that meds have a key place in treatment and secondary prevention.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com

RFK Jr. vows to overhaul preventative medicine

motherjones.comRFK Jr. vows to overhaul preventative medicineThe health secretary is dismantling a task force that determines what screenings and drugs must be covered by insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

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Thomas Piggott MD PhD
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We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario. #vaccines #science #health #publichealth

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

We often talk about the success introducing vaccinations had a generation ago, with diseases that we now no longer see. Here’s an exciting success story of a new vaccine that has dramatically reduced hospitalization from RSV in children in Ontario. #vaccines #science #health #publichealth

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

This week’s threats of “erasing a civilization” were the brink of nuclear war and should reignite the work to deproliferate from nuclear weapons. We don’t need these doomsday weapons in the control of powerful and crazy men, and they risk our species and planet.

Thomas Piggott MD PhD
@twpiggott.bsky.social

In 1985 the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts. Healthcare workers could lead a renewed charge again against Nuclear War.