Our commitment to a healthier world will continue to inform all of our communications, no matter where they take place.
It has long seemed to me that one of the core responsibilities of academic institutions is to aspire to always align what we do with our mission. This should include our way of communicating, both within our community and to the broader population. On this front, our aspiration is to advance a communications model that not only highlights the work of our community with efficiency and reach, but also exemplifies our values as a community.
With this in mind, having weighed the impact of a number of changes around the platform over the past several weeks, we will, as a School, be disengaging from our Twitter account @busph. Relatedly, I will also suspend my personal @sandrogalea account. Neither account will be deleted. While we may in future return to Twitter if the circumstances around the platform change, this seems the right thing to do at this point, for two key reasons.
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