In which I reset my reference point on appropriate amount of living space, experience Dunning-Kruger effect as a harvest intern at a winery, fail to meet New Zealand's Prime Minister due to base rate neglect, and visit a lot of pubs in Oxford.

Many congrats what a win-win-win all around!

Call for submissions for the 2024 World Congress of Bioethics is open!

In a viewpoint for JAMA, Harald Schmidt (@PennMEHP) argues that the Supreme Court's recent rulings on race neutrality threaten public health programs designed to advance health equity & improve population health rb.gy/ibr2u

Join us tomorrow! With sudharshini Vijay Gopichandran and Rajeswaran Thiagesan! Ind J Med Ethics Early Career Bioethics Network Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, SIUT

Getting geared up for another provocative, engaging, inspiring and useful Aspen Ethical Leadership Program #AELP23 !
Please retweet to spread the word, and apply to attend if you are a health system leader grappling with these challenging issues. colo.health/AELP23

In way too many ways. I'm partial, of course, but we really need to pay attention to direct impacts (lower Black physical rates and assoc. lower life expectancy in Black communities) & indirect ones, whether via chilling effects or legal action by now emboldened groups, see:⬇️

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked for views on how to make foreign funded (global health) research being done in low and middle income countries more equitable.

the summary of findings.

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Political determinant of health-control over our reproductive lives.

Access to social, political, and commercial determinants of health are necessary to end class, race, and gender disparities in health.

last night, I learned a colleague has been using capabilities approach to address deprivations among Masai in Kenya. lessons for global health.

so much amazing / courageous work gets drowned out by the....

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Cambridge Global Health Partnerships HDCA Minority Rights Group

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“We have a really massive public health crisis, where essentially the industry controls our food supply,” Christina A. Roberto says. “So the notion of informing the public about what’s in their food, I find it very hard to argue against that.” ft.com/content/326c4c…

In Health Affairs, #FSP Scholar & Making a Difference Grantee Brendan Saloner and colleagues wrote about pandemic plans in carceral settings. Many were unprepared, they write, and action is needed for future responses to be more equitable and effective. healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

I have a new paper in JAMA with Mary Ziegler & Eli Adashi on a threat to abortion access that we think that has not received enough attention in the medical community: The Comstock act. We explain what it is, how it threatens abortion access, and what the courts should do

'It is time to take responsibility for the racism – historic and contemporary, structural, and interpersonal – that drives racial disparities in birth outcomes in the United States.' -LDI Fellows Rebecca Clark and Rachel French, PhD, RN.

Read more on our blog.
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Race-neutrality in #SCOTUS rulings is detached from reality. Eg: pragmatic measure of racism (in paper&⬇️): Black & Native Am=2x higher share of most disadvantaged. Worse: Are just 1/5 and 1/50 of white ppln. Need genuine equality of opportunity in education, health & beyond.

ICYMI, Idaho GOP calls COVID vaccine a 'weapon' and asks the AG to seize all COVID #vaccines . It's just a resolution (there's nothing enforceable here) but it shows how this party is not only fully on the anti-vax bandwagon, but also driving it now.
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Exciting to see the The White House's latest report on how they've tackled #administrative #burdens in public programs:

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#Sludge makes it hard for people to access critical public services, impeding economic opportunity, well-being, and health. 🧵

New study from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) draws attention to rising maternal mortality in the US over the last 20 years, with particularly high (and increasing since 2019) rates for American Indian/Alaska Native and Black Americans in more than half of states.
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Warm welcome to Caesar Atuire’s Caesar Atuire talk on Friday. Please join ☺️👇🏻 uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/m…

'Cash transfer programmes were associated with important reductions in the risk of death among adult women and young children across many LMICs'

Aaron Richterman, MD Harsha Thirumurthy & colleagues nature

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