Some professional news: I will be leaving Boston after 13 years to join @columbiauniversity.bsky.social as an Associate Professor of Population and Family Health later this month. I am looking forward to working with some fantastic colleagues and students and experiencing life in New York City.

🚨 Our preprint on the termination of the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) Program is now available. How can we move towards an equitable data infrastructure and maintain research integrity after the DHS Program's termination? 🧵

EPA stated plans to backslide on its finalized #PFAS drinking water regs. I'm highlighting some problems with this (w/ graphs!) from my own research 🚰 1st: some replacement PFAS (incl. some they are reneging on) are more freq detected than the "legacy" PFOA & PFOS. This is based on EPA's own data!

Sharing our recent study (www.nature.com/articles/s41...), in which we found: - positive, area-level associations b/w #PFAS contaminated drinking water and #COVID19 mortality w/in 1st yr of pandemic - results consistent across 2 datasets w/ varied geography + robust to many sensitivity analyses