These fantastic ⁦⁦Harvard Medical School⁩ docs are also completing MPA & MPP degrees ⁦Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health⁩ & ⁦Harvard Kennedy School⁩. For two evenings, we discussed leadership at #CommonwealthScholars program. They graduate again next week. Lucky for us to have their leadership.

Honored to share this milestone with Sara Dong and my MSKID buddies!

The #UWIAlumni #Caribbean representation at #IM2024 has been incredible!! Got to reunite with #ProfBarton , who is now the Governor for the Caribbean Chapter of the ACP. I also had the pleasure of meeting the new Governor for the SC Chapter #DrSteveSaunders

Phenomenal talk on how to be a successful #clinicianeducator given by Katie Jobbins, DO, MS, FACP & Allison Ruff, MD, MHPE at the ACP conference #IM2024

We are excited to welcome learners from 🇦🇷🇦🇺🇧🇪🇧🇷🇨🇦🇨🇱🇪🇹🇩🇪🇬🇷🇭🇰🇮🇸🇮🇳🇮🇪🇮🇹🇯🇵🇲🇽🇳🇱🇳🇿🇵🇭🇵🇹🇰🇷🇷🇴🇸🇦🇸🇬🇿🇦🇪🇸🇺🇬🇦🇪🇬🇧🇻🇮🇺🇸 in just 12 days!

Will you join us! There's room for more!

Register at id.hmscme.com!

My first ACP national conference as an #ECP poster finalist! Such a wealth of knowledge and people! It was also heartening to see all the The UWI Mona Campus grads!

My timeline has been flooded with headlines of rising STI rates. Often excluded from this conversation is the vital role that #DiseaseInterventionSpecialists (DIS) play in curbing the spread. There's an urgent need to invest in the #DISworkforce at the state & federal level.

Dwight ‘Brother Dee’ Pinkney,  #Jamaican  guitarist, born 78 years ago today on 20 Mar 1946, in Manchester. Best known for his work as a session musician and as a member of Zap Pow and the Roots Radics, who since 1999 has recorded as a solo artist.  #Reggae
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Unlocking the power of disaggregated data: Read this blog by Infectious Diseases Physician Jodian Pinkney on low maternal vaccination rates among Boston's Black pregnant population. bit.ly/3x8pvZ4 #MaternalHealth #HealthEquity #DataDrivenHealthcare

Immigrants with limited English proficiency are twice as likely to be uninsured as English proficient immigrants and are also twice as likely to report having fair or poor health.

Learn more in our latest analysis: bit.ly/49Yv7nC

Congratulations to the best sister in the 🌎 Kerice Pinkney on another successful Match Day!!! No easy feat with record high unfilled pediatric positions this year!

ID physicians interested in maternal health should learn more about #Momnibus which houses the Maternal Vaccination Act & #blanketchange Advancing Safe Medications for Moms and Babies Act

Even more unsettling, this is the 3rd time I've heard some iteration of eerily similar discrimination scenarios in Academia this year (< 2mths).

Results - Black adults twice as likely to develop PJI compared to their White counterparts. ⬆️Access to high quality medications and value-based care may reduce disparities. Thank you to Sandy Nelson Antonia Chen Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA for their mentorship with this project.

Black women may prefer Black OB-GYNs due to fear of discrimination, dying during pregnancy nbcnews.com/health/health-… via @nbcnews Dr J’Leise Sosa is quoted NMAObGyn National Medical Association

Thank you Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health for highlighting health disparities in cancer care. In this article, I share my dad's story and how his cancer care was delayed due to insurance and structural barriers

hsph.harvard.edu/news/features/…

Syphilis testing is a mess. There are no available point-of-care tests, we are using a test developed in the 1940's, most places can't do dark filed microscopy and no molecular test exists. CDC STD has updated its laboratory recommendations cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/7…

I am incredibly honored to receive the The Massachusetts Infectious Diseases Society Maxell Finland award!! My deepest gratitude goes to my mentors Emily Hyle, Bisola Ojikutu MD MPH FIDSA, and the entire MGH/BWH Infectious Diseases Fellowship MGH Division of Infectious Diseases MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) team for their unwavering support.

Check out upcoming speaker Uché Blackstock's new piece in the The Washington Post, adapted from her book 'Legacy.' uché blackstock, md is an emergency physician and founder and chief executive of Advancing Health Equity.

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…