New post on When Public Health Goes Wrong: How we got peanut allergy guidelines wrong and why correcting mistakes is key for public health open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

New post on When Public Health Goes Wrong: How we got peanut allergy guidelines wrong and why correcting mistakes is key for public health open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

שבת שלום 🕊️

Portland’s drug and homelessness crisis is worse than I imagined. Heartbreaking

Not every day you get to meet the President of The Hastings Center for Bioethics. So great connecting with Vardit Ravitsky

My favourite conference moment so far 🦙 #ASBH2025

In 📍Portland for #ASBH2025 — happy to connect while I’m here

My Latest in JLME

New open access on FirstView: "Framing, Narratives, and the Overdose Crisis" is @itaibavli.bsky.social 's insightful commentary on a recent article by Daniel Eisenkraft Klein, Quinn Grundy, Ben Hawkins and Robert Schwartz @uoftdlsph.bsky.social (also open access). www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Our work starts today 🕊

My new commentary responding to Daniel Eisenkraft Klein et al. in the Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Saying sorry for Covid mistakes is important. But accountability comes first. My new reflection: “Accountability Before Saying Sorry.” open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

Please take a few minutes to read this important perspective from a surgeon in Gaza: On Bearing Witness by Dr. Samer Attar www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

"When the FDA opened the door to opioids.” My latest article — now up on When Public Health Goes Wrong. 👉 Check it out on my Substack: itaibavli.substack.com

A new study suggests that feeling lower in social rank due to socioeconomic factors like income or education can heighten the body’s cardiovascular stress responses....point to a potential biological pathway connecting social inequality to heart health. www.psypost.org/your-social-...

The public health error behind the opioid epidemic. My latest in When Public Health Goes Wrong open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

Shanah Tova. Wishing a year of happiness and kindness for all. A year of peace 🕊️

Shabbat Shalom 🕊️

Five years after their 2020 article, Vyas, Eisenstein, and Jones reflect in @nejm.org on the progress, tensions, and future of race correction in medicine www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

New reflection on When Public Health Goes Wrong: why we all need a break in nature open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

New reflection on When Public Health Goes Wrong: why we all need a break in nature open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

I have a list of things we can do to change this tempo of tragedy The proposals are based on real data They have had signals of efficacy It may feel hopeless today but: I refuse to give up. Because - Our babies & our communities deserve better than a rolling litany of horrors.

Sunset at Spanish Banks, Vancouver 🇨🇦

Public health errors can affect entire populations, yet they’ve received surprisingly little attention. In this post, I explain what counts as a public health error, why it matters, and what we can learn from past mistakes. Public health errors 101: the basics open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

New on When Public Health Goes Wrong: Public health errors 101: an introduction

Public health errors can affect entire populations, yet they’ve received surprisingly little attention. In this post, I explain what counts as a public health error, why it matters, and what we can learn from past mistakes. Public health errors 101: the basics open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

Brilliant new paper by Dr. Jad Brake on how autistic adults perceive and define friendship. Highly recommended for anyone interested in autism, social relationships, and ethics of care onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Persistence in error — why harmful practices continue despite evidence of harm. A reflection on Sandro Galea’s It Bears Conversation open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

I wrote a short piece introducing a topic the academic community mostly ignored open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

Paris reminds me of Romain Gary in 'The Kites' (may not be the exact wording): to taste your cooking is erotic, but to see your prices is pornographic

REALLY interesting work here for public health policy scholars

New on When Public Health Goes Wrong: Why nobody studies public health errors open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

New on When Public Health Goes Wrong: vaping in the UK — a chance to reflect on public health errors. open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

New on When Public Health Goes Wrong: vaping in the UK — a chance to reflect on public health errors. open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

I’ll be posting about the historical, social, and ethical aspects of public health errors. Subscribe--it’s free :) itaibavli.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

I’ll be posting about the historical, social, and ethical aspects of public health errors. Subscribe--it’s free :) itaibavli.substack.com/subscribe?pa...

I’ll start posting on Substack about projects I’ve been working on and new ideas open.substack.com/pub/itaibavl...

Impressive gathering in London with UK Friends of Standing Together and partners. Powerful speeches by Mira Awad and Magen Inon 🕊️

"We have to choose between heroism and practical accomplishment, but accomplishment is the most unheroic thing in the world, and it's contrary to the nature of youth." -- Romain Gary

Breaking News: Canada said it would recognize Palestine as a state if the Palestinian Authority makes certain changes, including holding elections next year.

A much-needed breather in London with coffee and Romain Gary

📍 John Snow’s historic water pump. Shabbat shalom

The real success of Israeli Hasbara is making the public believe that the problem lies in the Hasbara itself. ההצלחה האמיתית של ההסברה הישראלית היא לגרום לציבור להאמין שהבעיה היא בהסברה

ישראל מרעיבה את עזה - מאמר מערכת - הארץ www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/edi...

This is not normal. This is horrifying. (1/2)

Wow. "Nature has independently found 18 preprint studies containing such hidden messages, which are usually included as white text and sometimes in an extremely small font that would be invisible to a human but could be picked up as an instruction to an AI reviewer" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

London. It’s been a while

Good piece on AI’s impact on creativity. Another concern, not discussed here, is how we might start adopting its logic, which may influence how we think through problems. Does AI make you stupid? economist.com/science-and-... from The Economist

Dr. Hossam Abu Safiya is being starved, tortured, and denied medical care in an underground Israeli prison cell. (1/4)