New research shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Worst case: only 17% of rural, uninsured, non-disabled adults reported getting a flu vax. Public health departments can play a role here. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/691

Carbon monoxide deaths spike during power outages. If you own a portable generator, make sure you have working carbon monoxide alarms. One portable generator can produce as much carbon monoxide as hundreds of cars.

When sexism is allowed to infiltrate academic discourse, it becomes harder to combat in the culture as a whole. "Both of us posted multiple times about our essay. Only one of us, however, received a steady barrage of vitriolic criticism over the course of the day."

Between February and August 2025, 1 in 30 NIH-funded clinical trials lost grant funding, affecting over 74 000 participants, with disproportionate impact on prevention, infectious disease, and behavioral trials. ja.ma/4pScQPT

Sam the rural health advoCATe is concerned. Rural physicians trend older than urban docs; Sam suspects findings would be even more alarming in an analysis restricted to rural counties #PowerOfRuralCats Primary Care Clinicians Available for New Patient Visits url: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Post–intensive care syndrome (PICS) is a cluster of physical, cognitive, and psychological impairments that affect more than half of ICU survivors. 💡 Learn more about the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of PICS in this JAMA Insights. ja.ma/49xqRNW

I went to go look for Census data this morning and.... y'all. #econsky

Timeline cleanse.

One more week before the deadline of the Amsterdam UMC Fellowship (= €750k + tenure track): werkenbij.amsterdamumc.org/en/nieuws/tr...

I went to Minneapolis last week. What I saw was horrifying and inspiring in equal measure. Gift link to my latest column: www.nytimes.com/2026/01/19/o...

Valuable analysis shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Figure 3 is particularly interesting – general trends toward fewer injuries in rural are reversed in many areas in the South & Southwest. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...?

Can we please stop saying America right now is Nazi Germany? Adolf Hitler & the Nazis drew significant inspiration from American racial policies and practices, particularly U.S. segregation laws (Jim Crow), anti-miscegenation laws, and immigration restrictions as models. Europe got this from the US

Please share: Pew Research Center will provide $3,000 each for 19 new papers using our recent global datasets. We encourage reuse of our Pew-Templeton Global Religious Futures data! https://www.pewresearch.org/2026/01/16/seeking-research-using-recent-pew-templeton-global-religious-futures-datasets/

WE KNOW THE ANSWER, JUNIOR THEY DIE. When I was in med school, primary liver cancer was one of the top cancer killers worldwide. The neonatal Hep B vaccine changed that and mortality plummeted. Forward to yesterday....

NACCHO is seeking participants from local public health departments for virtual listening sessions to collect feedback on stockpiles within local jurisdictions. Registration closes 1/21. Learn more at https://ow.ly/sQKM50XY8El

Intriguing: the potential of legislation to reduce pediatric injuries. Limits re rurality: no definition provided & peds hospitals unlikely in rural areas. Sam the rural health advoCATe would love to see a similar study using HCUP NEDS data. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Reconstruction 2.0.

Peter Yazzie, a Navajo man, was asked by ICE agents to prove he was a US citizen. He produced both US and Navajo IDs. They didn't care. www.azcentral.com/story/news/p...

County-level data indicate a sharp rise in nonmedical childhood #vaccination exemptions in the US from 2010 to 2024, with post-pandemic rates highest in Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Wisconsin, and Arizona. ja.ma/4qky0qM

Sam the rural health advoCATe shares Mark Holmes' (Sheps Center) analysis of state Rural Health Transformation proposals. 25 state proposals include CME on nutrition. This is astonishingly cynical given the absence of both providers and stores in rural. (sources in comments) #PowerOfRuralCats

Sam the rural health advoCATe worries that students from rural communities could be disproportionately deterred from medicine. We need more providers who like and understand rural, not fewer. #PowerOfRuralCats

We’re recruiting for two Associate Professors (or Professors) of Statistical Quantitative Finance / Financial Econometrics to join us and the Oxford Man Institute. 📅 Closing date: Monday 9 February 2026 ➡️ Details and application information: tinyurl.com/2xarsd4y

Sam’s guardian has seen a suggestion that academics can help peers in Minnesota by offering guest lectures. If anyone needs rural health or MPH intro to management topics, Guardian can Zoom for hours with slides and without an in-breath. @[email protected]

Important new research shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. The Indian Health Service (IHS) is a key source of care for rural AI/AN folks, with 47.3% using IHS care vs 9.1% of urban. Worry about paying bills hampers both populations. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/690

Native-led reports on Native Maternal Health. Very important information shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. #PowerOfRuralCats www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Native organizations, the Centers for Disease Control, and some states are working to boost tribal participation in state maternal mortality review committees to better track and address pregnancy-related deaths in their communities. From @kffhealthnews.org:

Encouraging examples of rural transport programs, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural has greater distances, and rural folks with disability may not have personal means for covering those distances. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/688

The Oglala Sioux Tribe says it still hasn't been told the last names of their four citizens who were detained by ICE. The three still in custody are "held at Fort Snelling, a site historically used as a concentration camp for Native ppl during the Dakota removal period." ictnews.org/news/north-c...

An analysis published in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicted that, due to losing Medicaid coverage, millions of people will lose access to cancer screenings. Projected Cancer Screening Under the 2025 Medicaid Eligibility Restrictions jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Yes. Current administration actions are Reconstruction 2.0, not 1934 2.0. Portraying themselves as fascist builds an “unstoppable” story. But ICE actions = lynchings. With this framework, the music flips from Wagner to Woodie Guthrie. We beat Jim Crow once and we will do it again.

🧵As I'm prepping my class meeting on Native American genocide (example: Sand Creek Massacre), it strikes me that the sheer moral heroism of US Army Captain Silas S. Soule is particularly relevant in our current times.

Podcast on area health education centers, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Sam loves AHECs, they do good work. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthinfo.org/podcast/ahec...

Sam the rural health advoCATe endorses this editorial. Huge cuts to rural are not offset by bandaid “grants” constrained by the need to focus on administration priorities (eg nutrition CME) rather than rural needs. #PowerOfRuralCats

Declines in bed capacity were greater among rural than urban counties, 66.8% vs 49.5%. An editorial adds that these problems reverberate thru local systems. Sam the rural health advoCATe sees little in state RHTP projects to address this issue. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Important info for rural planners, shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe: webinar January 22 on rural definitions. Sam is sadly aware how often folks ignore or misunderstand (e.g., "micropolitan") these terms. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthinfo.org/webinars/fed...

Sam the rural health advoCATe is trying to stay positive, but this article summarizes many points at which a “rural” initiative will bypass rural providers. Combined with Medicaid cuts… #PowerOfRuralCats www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/rura...

Sam the rural health advoCATe is aware of high road fatality rates in rural & welcomes any helpful initiatives. However, he is not sure an in-person applicant workshop in *Baltimore,* coupled with small grant sizes, is sufficient. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthinfo.org/funding/4344

“Reclaiming academic publishing as a public good requires a return to not-for-profit models & sustainable open-access systems. Quality, accessibility & integrity need to be put ahead of profit. Change is needed to protect the purpose of academic research: to advance knowledge in the public interest”

Make cervical cancer great again

Sam the rural health advoCATe appreciates any attention to rural issues and the measurement of rural. However, he is not totally sure that a state-level indicator for rurality is particularly useful for policy or planning. #PowerOfRuralCats onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. He speculates that this otherwise excellent analysis over-controls for rural, noting that rural residents were more likely to be in persistent poverty CTs. Would love to see a rural-only assessment. #PowerOfRuralCats jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

3 weeks left to submit your nomination for this year's annual awards. Recognize a colleague (or yourself) for their contributions to the profession. buff.ly/LtZRw3x

Sigh. Sam the rural health advoCATe is tired of waking up every day to find a new threat to rural health. Rural data are already hard to come by, despite being essential to public health monitoring. #PowerOfRuralCats @dailyyonder.bsky.social dailyyonder.com/qa-communiti...

Grimly shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. By 2023, 60% of rural counties & 38% of urban counties lacked any hospital-based obstetric services. This trend needs to change. #PowerOfRuralCats www.ruralhealthresearch.org/alerts/686

Important thread. There are reasons why Sam the rural health advoCATe posts in Bluesky. Other rural research organizations should join him. #PowerOfRuralCats

Sadly, environmental exploitation of rural, and nonwhite areas in particular, is neither new nor unusual. Structural urbanism and generations of under-representation. #PowerOfRuralCats

Transport is essential for connecting rural folks with health care, so Sam is purrleased to share this new National Academies report. It *begins* by noting that rural & urban differ. [Not sure why link shows different title.] #PowerOfRuralCats www.nationalacademies.org/publications...

We mourn the loss of Stuart H. Altman, Ph.D., a leader in health policy and economics and the inaugural chair of the HPC. “Dr. Altman dedicated his life to a health care system that is affordable and accessible for all,” said HPC Executive Director David Seltz.

Pew Research Center just posted a brand new opening for a Data Archivist! This is a 2-year, grant-funded position housed within the methods team (the best team obv). Check out the link below for a full description and to apply! #openscience

Sam’s Guardian cannot resist students, even a high schooler from VA. Student is seeking rural doc’s in PE owned practices for a online survey. If you are one / could forward to one, SG thanks you! @varuralhealth.bsky.social @ruralhealth.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...