I’m excited to share the 2nd study from my dissertation work titled “Associations of Place-based Social Determinants of Health with Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”! ✨ You can read it here: alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... A short 🧵 here! (1/x)

According to NEW STUDY from Timothy Hughes, et al. @wakeforestmed.bsky.social, "the conditions where you live may influence your brain health & risk for #Dementia". Learn More @alzdemjournals.bsky.social @alzassociation.bsky.social 👉 alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Not a typical post (🧵) on here, but just over 6 months ago, I successfully defended my dissertation alongside friends, family, my committee, and many loved ones. It was a wonderful day, and I have so many people to thank for their support over the past 3 years and more! (1/3)

Our new pre-print presents the reporting, and racial and ethnic diversity of 58,000+ studies in clinicaltrials.gov, the largest global clinical study registry. Reporting of race and ethnicity to the registry began in 2009, and we analyzed data through 2024 #MedSky www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Starting residency without money for rent or furniture or groceries until I get my first paycheck mid July. I’m a physician and surgical resident who beat cancer. Please share and donate

If you would like to donate to an incoming general surgery resident who lost his father after his first year of medical school, who also beat cancer, has food insecurity, & graduated without familial support. All contributions are for a security deposit & rent until I get my first paycheck mid July.

I’m going to make individual posts for the Palestinian accounts I’m boosting today so they don’t get lost in a thread but if you are looking for them all in one place I’ll link them here 🔽

I fought cancer. I lost my dad. I became a doctor with no family support. Now I’m weeks away from residency with no housing, no groceries, and no paycheck until mid-July. I’ve come too far to fall now. Please help. 📲 Venmo: @JBrisbon1181 🙏 gofund.me/850fc46c #medsky #urosky #mdsky #orthosky

Proud to share my latest paper in @bmj.com www.bmj.com/content/389/.... Takeaways: Dementia incidence ⬇️, prevalence ⬆️, and dementia is unequally distributed. In an opinion article, I argue we need to redouble our efforts to manage multimorbidity across the life course: www.bmj.com/content/389/...

Public health for the people

Sharing a short thread here on our recent publication from earlier this month. This project was an incredible team effort, and truly would not have been possible without every co-author on this all-⭐ team! Go give it a read here if interested: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... A short 🧵: (1/x)

Turned 26 today and recently finished my 4th year of my PhD program, so I wrote a new blog where I did some reflecting on the moment we are in. Compared to when I applied to grad school in 2020, this is nowhere near what I would’ve predicted. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/notbeing...

Donate to my fundraiser if you’d like to help an exhausted girl out <3 meanwhile I’m going to nap and cry ok ty bai

If folks aren’t following this yet, you can keep an eye on this link for updates. The situation between India and Pakistan is escalating rapidly at the moment… www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

📋‼️Honored to share this newly published article that I helped lead! Cannot thank @uressien.bsky.social enough - he has served as a friend, mentor, and sponsor throughout! And the whole study team who this wouldn’t have happened without!🙏🏽 Will post a longer thread on the findings soon - stay tuned!

‼️ NEW Paper. Led by @sudkrishnamurthy.bsky.social we found wide disparities in receipt of ERBB2-targeted 💊 for Medicare enrollees w. breast cancer, disparities that did narrow by 2019. We need more research to identify strategies to improve cancer #Pharmacoequity. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We’re finally there, y’all! I’ll be defending my final PhD dissertation next Friday, March 28th! Excited to see you on the other side of it!

Think this is a great time to lift up the legacy and work of W.E.B DuBois and Ida B. Wells in using journalism, ethnography, and data to highlight the propaganda of white supremacy. They were able to pierce through official lies with meticulous work and compelling methods of communication.

This is what’s happening as the “you know who the real problem is?” discourse is churning.

"The core of disability justice lies the belief that no one is left behind. This begins with transforming the global mindset to embrace us who are disabled as vital members of society" @ananyatb.bsky.social in the @thelancet.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan....

A grassroots movement is calling on all Americans to abstain from shopping with major retailers tomorrow, February 28, as part of an “economic blackout.” I encourage you to join. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/boycott

25/ Solomon Carter Fuller, MD - pioneer of #Alzheimers disease - published first comprehensive review of Alzheimer's disease - Amer Psychiatric Assoc (APA) established a Solomon Carter Fuller Award lecture at its annual meetings #BlackHistoryMonth #BHM

Class war against poor, disabled, and working people being waged by the world’s richest man.

"The migrants, heading from San Diego to San Jose, hail from China, Afghanistan, India and Pakistan, among other countries. Sixty-five minors and at least two pregnant women are among the deportees...None of the migrants have criminal records, but are undocumented..."

The revolution will be accessible or it's not much of a revolution. Access is not just about disability access. Access also includes gender neutral bathrooms, sliding scale option, childcare, ending food desserts so folks can have access to nourishing foods, clean air and water, language justice.

Something you can do to stand against RFK jr’s attempt to make us all sicker is wear a mask when you share air with others. Resist mask bans. People who cannot afford to get sick have a right to exist in public. Masking will protect your health from him too.

I actually started crying seeing my story as the featured story on The Forges website just now 😭😭 I can’t believe I almost gave up writing for good. If you go to forgeorganizing.org it’ll be the first thing that comes up. That’s wild to me.

Now live! A short piece that I wrote right after the election. This one’s for my friends who suffer from energy limiting diseases. Thank you to @forgeorganizing.bsky.social for publishing. forgeorganizing.org/article/coll...

There is a lot of bad public health information out there and it's only getting worse. So I'm starting a newsletter to help you distinguish the bad from the good. E is for Epi: coming soon! Link: open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Y'all pick a lane. Then make a little progress in your lane each day. Every serious, experienced organizer I know is Doing Their Thing. Instead of freaking out about each bit of bad news, we're in our lanes rapidly building dual power infrastructure and networks that don't rely on the goverment.

I'm just here to say for the 2nd week in a row, the CDC has not released its morbidly and mortality weekly report on schedule. Everyone who provides healthcare to patients in the US is less informed and less up to date as a direct result. This impacts negatively at the population level.

"Health disparities research" is a field of study where researchers look at how things like race, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status can influence health outcomes. Now any gov't website about this says "page not found". This is a dystopia that I did not imagine that we'd be living through.

i know this space will grow and that’s a good thing…but i want to notice how manageable this size feels to me, how…alive people seem. 🙏🏽

If you are providing gender affirming care or care to migrants and have questions about how to keep doing that, or generally step into your commitment to do no harm, please contact @interruptcrim.bsky.social's help desk for health care providers! www.interruptingcriminalization.com/health-care-...

Don’t underestimate the impact you’re making when you choose to wear a mask. You’re protecting your health & the health of your community. You’re helping ease the burden on our healthcare system. You’re standing in solidarity with disabled people & telling the government that no one is expendable

HIV-positive Palestinians are struggling to survive in Gaza with limited access to medication due to Israel’s siege and ongoing attacks on the territory.

That guilt you feel about not being able to support every GoFundMe for folks who are suffering? That’s actually rage at a corrupt system refusing to support its people - a rage carefully steered away from the system so you struggle with yourself & not with the institutions that deserve it

NEW: 2024 has just been confirmed as the warmest year on record, and the first to breach the 1.5C threshold. We used a ridgeline (Joy Division inspired) chart to visualise daily temperature anomalies since 1940. 2024 clearly stands out with 100% of its days above 1.3C and 75% above 1.5C.

As your 2024s draw to a close, consider donating the cost of one drink to support abortion funds! And while you’re at it, find the abortion fund closest to you and continue to support them too! Happy New Year y’all! ♥️

Reflect on the year, they say. Don't mention the fire #KeepTellingofGaza

THIS. Another idea is contributing to your local bail fund to help get some people out of jail who are stuck and waiting in pre-trial detention Follow the link for a state-by-state list of community bail funds

I’m going to take a small SM break because I’m getting very sick again after recovering from the hospital two weeks ago. But I wanted to share this pretty personal video about having severe-very severe ME caused by COVID and my fundraising link. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndWF... 💲 gofund.me/241e8944

Just gave my last talk of the year to a cohort of students and incarcerated folks with the Abolitionist Public Health Student Network. We talked about Let This Radicalize You and organizing in these times. The questions were great, and the group was really kind. I was so grateful for the opportunity

Now out @plosmentalhealth.org I led a project examining the experiences of families w/ a child w/ HLHS (1 of the rarest & most costly congenital heart diseases). They face more than medical challenges—they grapple with immense psychosocial strains. #CardioSky doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmen.0000208

This was such an incredible read, y’all! 📖 Go read! “I believe our condition is deteriorating. One might call this development “a morbid symptom” of a late-stage sickness, which, at present, remains untreated. So, what remedy shall we seek for what ails us?” The metaphor here is scarily accurate…

My latest is a reflection on how people have responded to the killing of a health insurance CEO. "Rather than centering Thompson’s humanity, as scolding voices have demanded, they centered their own, and the humanity and suffering of others who were harmed by the insurance industry."