Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

“Freedom is not free. We have to work at it. Nurture it. Protect it. Even sacrifice for it.”

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

An outstanding job here @yalesph.bsky.social with @jacobwswallace.bsky.social ! 🧪🩺🛟📈

Can recommend this team!

The Yale crew is awesome and doing incredibly innovative things in the Medicaid and SNAP space. If you're interested in health policy and a predoc, run, do not walk, to apply for this!

🚨 Predoc Opportunity at Yale! 🚨 Care about research that changes policy? My research team works within state government to advance evidence and learning for a smarter safety net! And our predocs have excellent PhD placements. Apply here! #EconSky #EconTwitter #Predoc #ResearchJobs #HealthPolicy

Research on insurer coverage rules is in today’s NY Times. Denials are rising. Good managed care or bad administrative burden? Hard to know. Featuring research by @michaelannica.bsky.social @jacobwswallace.bsky.social @mikegeruso.bsky.social me and colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/h...

My kids know an American flag when they see one – but they don't yet know all that it represents. When they're old enough, here is what I'm going to tell them:

If people are interested in learning about the ACIP and its decades of contributions to US vaccine policy successes, here’s a short 2014 piece I wrote in NEJM with Adel Mahmoud (timed with its 50th anniversary) www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

These are important stats to know as we "debate" the provisions in the budget bill. (#publichealth rigor PLUS impact, right here, from @jacobwswallace.bsky.social!) cc @yalesph.bsky.social

Very honored and grateful that URBAN POWER recently been recognized by two sections of the ASA: Charles Tilly Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Book Award from Collective Behavior and Social Movements Best Book Award (honorable mention) from Sociology of Development

Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇

Ok folks, we know work requirements reduce benefits without increasing work (cc: @chloeneast.bsky.social) But who loses benefits and what happens if work requirements are reversed? New evidence from linked SNAP-Medicaid data and a natural experiment in CT tell a concerning story... Thread below 👇

New research letter led by Hannah Factor, a star PhD student here in Harvard's health policy program, finds that damage from SNAP work requirements is hard to undo, likely because of the administrative burdens involved with re-enrollment jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Eric Roberts and @joefigs.bsky.social led a groundbreaking new study on Medicaid and Medicare, out today in NEJM. I’m lucky to have been a part of it. Medicare saves lives. But is it enough to save lives of the most vulnerable Americans? The study suggests no; Medicaid still matters. (1/11)

Wisconsin! Judge Susan Crawford will work to protect your rights and freedoms. So get out there and vote today by 8pm. You can find your polling place at wisdems.org/vote. If you have any questions about voting, call or text the Voter Assistance Hotline at 608-336-3232.

Please join us for the next Medicaid Insights Colloquium on Feb. 12 featuring the incomparable @jacobwswallace.bsky.social on how managed care manages care: "The Private Provision of Public Services: Evidence from Random Assignment in Medicaid" Register: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

This is an outstanding opportunity to work with outstanding faculty incl @jacobwswallace.bsky.social in a dynamic department here @yalesph.bsky.social 👇 🧪🛟📈📉 #econsky #academicsky #healthpolicysky

Interested in multiple hypothesis testing? The Stata command wyoung is updated to version 2.0 with new support for permutation-based resampling. Install with: ssc install wyoung, replace #EconSky More details here: github.com/reifjulian/w...

🚨 Re-upping this Postdoc at Yale! 🚨 It is a great time to be at YSPH: 1️⃣ We're a newly-independent school 2️⃣ W/ a fantastic new dean @meganranney.bsky.social 3️⃣ The school is doing impactful work in many areas This is a great place to finish the work you've started and launch new collaborations!

I am *THRILLED* the 2025 Economic Report of the President is highlighting the financial risk protection provided by public insurance programs Excited to see my work with @paulgp.com and Maxim Pinkovskiy included with many other great studies Link to the report: bit.ly/428zURZ 1/

Great postdoc opportunity

Holy crap this will be an awesome postdoc

🚨 Postdoc Opportunity Alert at Yale! 🚨 Come work with me & my colleagues @yalesph.bsky.social Why you'll love it: 💸 Competitive salary and benefits 💽 Lots of data to use and projects to join 🤝 Support for your big ideas 📍 New Haven, CT rocks #Econsky #EpiSky #SocSky #PublicHealth Please RT! 🙏

It was a pleasure to write this piece for Health Affairs on risk adjustment in Medicare. Risk adjustment modifies payments to health plans or ACOs based on patient/beneficiary characteristics. Here's a very brief summary of my thoughts🧵 www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Our #Tobacco21 project was years in the making and I'm thrilled to finally see it out! Big Thank you to our partners at at PTAF / tobacco21, the whole team at CISNET and our friends at Cornerstone who made this gorgeous website to accompany the paper! Explore T21 effects at tobaccopolicyeffects.org

This worked! Thank you everyone and especially @adrianna.bsky.social

Do folks include booking (eg, Calendly) links in email signatures? Good or awful idea for a faculty member? Tagging those who must get lots of incoming: @paulgp.com @florianederer.bsky.social @causalinf.bsky.social @nickchk.com @povertyscholar.bsky.social @wschpero.bsky.social #EconSky #MedSky

The California Policy Lab (@capolicylab.bsky.social) is hiring a researcher who works on consumer finance or related topics to work with the UC-Consumer Credit Panel. capolicylab.org/careers/rese... Come work with us!

I'm looking for a third paper for a Medicaid managed care-focused panel for ASHE. DM me if interested! Please RT, I'm new to the blue skies...

Honored to join this group full of colleagues, friends, and mentors in bioethics. www.thehastingscenter.org/news/hasting...

New, clever experiment with a powerful warning–Racial health disparities in Medicaid plans can merely reflect selection bias, rather than true differences in insurance plan performance. By @jacobwswallace.bsky.social, Chima D. Ndumele, Michael McWilliams & team

@AEACSWEP announces Maya Rossin-Slater as the 2023 Elaine Bennett Research Prize winner! Visit aeaweb.org/about-aea/co... for the full announcement. Congratulations! @maya_rossin, @StanfordHP

How does transportation affect health equity? Tentatively testing the waters here to say how grateful we are to NIMHD for funding our R01 on the Medicaid transportation benefit. And incredibly excited to lead this work w/ @povertyscholar.bsky.social. More here: