🚨HRSA's Area Health Resources Files webpage is now down. Fortunately, I built an archive of data 2000-2023 for a previous project, which can be accessed without restriction here: data.mendeley.com/datasets/dwf...

Is the "temporary pause" of disbursement of all federal grants/loans an unlawful impoundment? It almost certainly is. A brief 🧵

What are the benefits of cash transfers? How can Medicare improve outcomes for kidney patients? Why did AAPI individuals receive markedly different care than other groups during COVID-19? It's all in the latest AIR News → icont.ac/50WNV

Today, mitsmr.bsky.social published ten essential leadership tips for 2025 to "build your leadership skill set & solve tough challenges in the new year": sloanreview.mit.edu/article/10-e... Interesting how many of them are so called "soft skills". Perspectives of leadership are changing.

Building a Culture of Quality and Safety in Health Care—The Importance of Respect for Patients -- Somnath Saha, Mary Catherine Beach | Health Policy | JAMA Network Open jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

We found that almost 40% of 12-21 year old females are iron deficient. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... I’ve been asked how this is possible evolutionarily. I have a few thoughts. 🧵

Motion to ban the term hysterical from ever being used in reference to female patients or the issues that affect them.

As 2024 comes to a close, we're reflecting on AIR projects and initiatives that exemplify the vital interplay between research and lived experience, www.air.org/air-2024-hig...

We're hiring 2 new roles! These are 6-month contracts with possible extension, and can be between 25-40 hrs/week. Deadline Dec 31! 1) Partnerships & Advocacy Coordinator 2) Fundraising & Operations Manager Please share widely! patientresearchcovid19.com/job-opportun... #LongCovid #neisvoid #pwme

PCORI Project by Dr. Talal & team: Using Telehealth to Improve Access to Hepatitis C Virus Treatment for Patients with Opioid Use Disorder -- The TEAM-C Study 6/ #publichealth www.pcori.org/research-res...

The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) funds clinical research that compares two or more medical treatments, services, or health practices to help patients and others make better-informed decisions. Since 2010, they have funded $4.5 billion to more than 2,400 research projects 1/

A real, actual thing BCBS is doing youtube.com/shorts/vWA2a...

As a hockey fan and a health researcher, I find these results very scary. The NHL needs to address this ASAP.

Get to know the people and places that shape AIR's global #giving community, and learn how our staff are taking action for #climate resilience this #GivingTuesday:

This important work to center people and communities when working across systems is built upon our initial RWJF funded work to align systems to improve equity using shared measurement.

As with improv, social medial works a lot better when you have a “yes, and…” mentality. Twitter trained a lot of people into “no, but…” and that is just going to catch you a lot of blocks here. 💁🏻‍♀️

AIR Health Division is hiring for a Principal Researcher to lead projects and business development about Healthcare Quality Improvement and Learning Systems! Come work with me at AIR! jobs-airdc.icims.com/jobs/13223/p...

PCORI had a great session on Achieving Patient-Centeredness in Artificial Intelligence(AI) at their annual meeting. I continue to refer back to it. Available online (freel here www.pcori.org/events/2024/... #healthservices #healthcare

Tressie McMillan Cottom's new column with post-election analysis - How an Empty Internet Gave Us Tradwives and Trump www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

HeartLife Foundation, Transform HF, and Canadian Heart Function Alliance are hosting a free webinar on compensation for patient partners in research on Thursday, November 28, 9–10 am Pacific. #PatientEngagement & #POR folks—please share with your networks! www.eventbrite.ca/e/patient-pa...

“Learning CPR on manikins without breasts puts women’s lives at risk, study finds” Dr Rebecca Szabo et al @inquisitivegyn.bsky.social Research 🔗: academic.oup.com/heapro/artic... #ResusSky

Georgia Dismissed All Members of Maternal Mortality Committee After ProPublica Obtained Internal Details of Two Deaths State’s public health commissioner said action was taken because “confidential information..was inappropriately shared with outside individuals.” www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Medicaid work requirements are expected to be back on the agenda - our new brief recaps the landscape of work requirement approvals and pending requests at the end of President Trump’s first term and examines recent state activity. www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

Our organizers have been in Vox, Nature, and Science the past couple days! Check it out 👇🏽 @kssphd.bsky.social in Vox: www.vox.com/future-perfe... @clionamurray.com in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/d41... @shaine.bsky.social in Science: www.science.org/content/arti... #BlackSky #Neuroscience 🧪

"Yes RFK Jr believes a lot of unhinged things but did you know that he also believes some slightly less unhinged things?"

"Women and girls disproportionately bear the brunt of the #climate crisis." In a new Q&A, AIR's Jessie Pinchoff shares insights and research revelations from her work examining the intersections of #ClimateChange and #gender: www.air.org/resource/qa/...

PBS news hour segment on how federal workers are bracing for the incoming Trump administration www.tiktok.com/t/ZTY2A7pxc/

North Carolina is home to the oldest state Office of Rural Health (ORH). ORH was established in 1973. #PublicHealthSky

One of my favorite projects: Measurement can reinforce the status quo, or be a force for change, depending on how it is used – and who uses it. Five guiding principles to align systems with communities to advance equity through shared measurement. www.air.org/project/cros...

I have moved over to bluesky from the other site! This will be my work/career related account (my other personal account is hobbies/local). Focus here on qualitative/mixed methods health research, measurement, and evaluation that centers people, communities, & equity.