Mark your calendars! Ethics Grand Rounds, “Public Perceptions of Health Equity and How Communication Can Shape Understanding and Action” featuring @sarahgollust.bsky.social, PhD. 🗓️: Friday, Oct. 3, 2025 ⏱️: 12-1 p.m. (CDT) Register Now! It’s free: z.umn.edu/ap9m

Such a surreal feeling - just facilitated my first editorial board meeting of @jhppl.bsky.social. How did I get so lucky to be working with the most brilliant (and kind) health policy scholars and former editors?!

As far as I can tell no one else has yet reported (tell me if I missed something!) on the DOJ dictating what meetings NIH employees can attend, which, well, seems odd to me.

Thrilled that my paper "Partisan disparities in the funding of science in the United States" with Nic Fishman, @leahrosenstiel.bsky.social, and @dashunwang.bsky.social was published in @science.org today! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a new open-access Milbank Quarterly article, @sarahgollust.bsky.social of the University of Minnesota and coauthors interviewed public health communicators — including public health leaders, advocates, and journalists — about their strategies for explaining health equity.

What can the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine PSAs teach us about public health communication? In our newest COMM blog post, first author Margaret Tait breaks down her recently published research on the critical messaging missteps in federally-sponsored PSAs.

My latest for MSNBC: CMS is adding new prior authorization requirements for traditional Medicare, implemented with AI. Prior auth is a key vehicle for coverage denials that then drive administrative burdens of appealing, which seniors are less well equipped to navigate. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

I had a great morning with the wonderful people contained inside @iamwbob.bsky.social. Bye for now!

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

This is just wild. 76% to 0.4%. Unreal. (New slide for my October guest lecture on public opinion and polarization just dropped.)

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

New: The NIH cancelled more than a half dozen grants focused on suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth. Turns out that's indicative of Trump's broader mental health plan—defund research, incarcerate people, & disappear the workforce. Took a deep dive w/ @juliametraux.bsky.social for @motherjones.com:

New issue of @jhppl.bsky.social just dropped (Volume 50, Issue 5). Check it out, for a set of wonderful articles on topics that span health care, opioids, paid leave, and mental health, a great representation of the diversity in JHPPL. Thread here:

Thank you @smith.senate.gov! Everyone should be screaming this. As a Minneapolis parent and public health professional reading this, I'm so angry and heartsick I feel blind with rage.

My heart is broken. Minneapolis and Annunciation School, I grieve with you. This is just unbearable, and unacceptable.

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Extensive story from ProPublica about HHS staffing cuts. Outstanding reporting and a lot to digest. projects.propublica.org/federal-heal...

Seems I have to share this again with the pall of violence directed at public health workers looming heavy again since last week.

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

This paper, led by my former PhD advisee @margarettait.bsky.social, offers important insights into the limitations of the federal PSA campaign for COVID-19 vaccination way back in 2021. I know hindsight is 20/20, but wow, there were some missed opportunities in this mass communication campaign.

Hundreds of bullets. An officer slain. A silent Trump. After CDC shooting, shock turns to anger. From Atlanta, myself & @lenasun.bsky.social @washingtonpost.com Edited @fenitn.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

Feel like this needs a spotlight: employees were told that the shooting at CDC, which left an officer dead and buildings riddled with bullets, was targeted at agency, @lenasun.bsky.social, @laurenweberhp.bsky.social and @tobiaraji.bsky.social report Years of anti-CDC rhetoric has consequences

Been a hard week. Sending my public health friends some light and cat pics, which doesn’t really help but it also doesn’t hurt. ✨

And happy birthday to Medicare from @jhppl.bsky.social! 🎉

Happy birthday to Medicaid from @jhppl.bsky.social! 🥳

Important piece from Sherry Glied on the destruction - and rebuilding - of govt evaluation capacity. "[These offices'] demise signals a turn away from an ideal of government that roots its actions in evidence and seeks to continually improve its programs and mission." jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Heard from #AHRQ that the entire grants staff has been let go! They are unable to issue funds for grants already funded, let alone fund new grants. This is outrageous and will make Americans poorer and sicker. Why? A brief thread about just some recent AHRQ-funded research: #MedSky #HealthPolicy

Sharing a cool new gig I have, as a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee of @theexamination.org, a nonprofit newsroom doing incredibly important reporting on preventable health threats worldwide. Follow them! www.theexamination.org/about/scient...

Reporting about health equity is harder than ever—but what if the framing itself is part of the problem? Our new study (linked below) reveals why journalists struggle with these stories and how to reframe them effectively. Swipe through for actionable strategies to improve health equity stories.

We're hiring! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30219 The Cornell Department of Communication is hiring an Assistant Professor in Science, Environment, and Risk Communication! Applications received by September 15, 2025, will be given full consideration.

Few Americans actively support the Trump admin's attacks on higher ed. But, our data show that many seem to have no problem with it. @stecula.bsky.social ‬and I discuss why Americans should *demand* that our elected officials stand up for higher ed. www.scientificamerican.com/article/atta...

Thread on a highly policy relevant @jhppl.bsky.social paper ⬇️

Delighted to announce that as of this month, I'm now the Editor of @jhppl.bsky.social. I'm humbled and grateful to be taking on the role from @oberlanderunc.bsky.social, who has been such a wonderful editor for 6 years. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl

The partial repeal of the ACA through the Big Beautiful Bill is a stunning development. Here are some @jhppl.bsky.social articles that offer insights into what just happened--and what might come next. @haroldpollack.bsky.social @sarahgollust.bsky.social 1/N

Should the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill’ reach President Trump’s desk, “it would represent the biggest rollback in federal support for health coverage ever,” writes KFF’s @larrylevitt.bsky.social. For @nytopinion.nytimes.com, Larry writes about the potential impact of the bill:

Sadly, must share this again today: Most. People. Don’t. Want. Medicaid. Cuts. And as @povertyscholar.bsky.social and I argue, there could (should) be political repercussions for this undemocratic act.

Now it’s up to all of us to continue the fight. As this bill returns to the House, make your voices heard. We say no to the largest role back in health care in our nation’s history, and the biggest transfer of wealth in modern times.

It is so great to be in dialogue with all of these authors on this podcast episode! Check it out.

🎧🎧🎧 UAR Remixed is BACK! Tune in to hear Part 1 of our miniseries with the authors of the new symposium on the Local Politics of Public Health, streaming on all major platforms! www.urbanaffairsreview.com/uar-archive/...

Devastating. How do we ever rebuild what has been lost? (A question I ask myself daily - about science, education, public health, and journalism)

One of the great parts of my job is digging into the data after our initial release. This time I found that we could look at the attitudes of people with Medicaid who are currently working. My key takeaway is that they value work and also really rely on their Medicaid coverage.

If you knew Mike (well first you’d be laughing because he was just so funny) you’d know he would be so pissed at these cuts to scientific research and the peddling of magic & mysticism to good people yearning for control. I hope he knows his story continues to matter: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/o...

With the pall of political violence looming heavy here in Minnesota, I was reminded of this piece I was invited to write for @jamanetworkopen.com in 2022 on threats to the public health workforce and elected officials. This call to action is even more urgent today. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

Most Americans (including MAGA/Republicans and people who don't use the Marketplaces) support the idea of Congress extending the Marketplace subsidy enhancements that are set to expire at the end of this year. www.kff.org/affordable-c... But Congress hasn't done anything to address this.