🚨 New research 🚨 "Interventions To Automate Medicaid Renewals Reduce Procedural Denials And Increase Coverage," published in Health Affairs from authors @pamherd.bsky.social @giannella.bsky.social, me, @lukef.bsky.social and @donmoyn.bsky.social Full paper: www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....

"As we know, vaccines don't save lives; vaccinations do. Vaccines sitting on shelves don't protect anyone." Read the #OpEd from @hlanthorn.bsky.social Heather Mercer, and @aradultimmdoc.medsky.social#OpEd at: https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/second-opinions/117447?trw=no

Lost my cousin today (09/10/01). Scuba accident. Just a memory for people processing every day stuff on the eve of something 'bigger.' It matters and your loss is seen.

this reminds me that i think people would be less interested in “raw milk” if we called it “poop milk” or “shit milk”

I would like to understand more (polling, otherwise) the merits of being a 'no' from the outset versus claiming to be 'duped' later.

We ask: "What can be done, given the current administration’s vigorous efforts to undermine vaccination?" We suggest 4 priorities: 1. Congressional leaders must recognize they were misled in supporting RFK Jr. He must resign or be fired. Congress can hold hearings & investigate his actions. 2/5

Any Econ PhD students at Harvard (or elsewhere in the U.S.) worried about visa status, the @iies.su.se has openings for PhD students who have completed their coursework and are at the dissertation stage, starting in the fall. Apply here: www.su.se/institute-fo...

Reminder that the term “peer review” was introduced precisely to avoid political meddling in funding decisions

Aside from the bigger picture, I’m not sure where Cassidy gets the idea that “states are supposed to pay 40%.” FMAP is calculated according to a formula in statute, which enforces a floor of 50% and a ceiling of 83% match. Louisiana is only paying 32 cents on the dollar.

There are different ways in which honesty can be understood and what people consider to be the truth. One approach relies on evidence and is concerned with the state of the world. The other approach relies on intuition and is concerned with sincere expression of belief. 4/n

Is anyone studying improvements in grad student mental health as a result of having AI to 'talk through' your thesis with?It'd be a rough diff-in-diff but my working H1 is that it is quite helpful in a lonesome process. I had to bribe @johnquattrochi.bsky.social et al with beer to listen! ;-)

Should probably prioritize re-watching Tombstone tonight over all else.

In an #OpEd, Sara Gorman, PhD, MPH, and Heather Lanthorn, ScD, MPH (@hlanthorn.bsky.social), warn Gerald Parker, DVM, PhD, of H5N1's risks, urging state and local health departments to build trust with the public through expertise, transparency, and honesty. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

I don't want to be in the position of defending Leana Wen... but the idea that only people who work in clinical or academic medicine can 'do' public health is also infuriating.

If you’re a federal worker and you feel it prudent to respond to the Musk/Trump demand for an accounting of your work last week, this tool could be quite helpful.

Team: some schools, or departments, of public health, do actually focus on policy and even politics. Check out what is happening in your very own school!

Please don't ask whether some real or hypothetical event "would make you more or less likely to support [CANDIDATE]" -- it prompts people to share their preeixsting feelings on the event/person, produces misleading results, overestimates impact and makes me personally sad

It's giving Cabaret.

I hate yesterday Heather who snoozed 10+ emails to today so much

Seriously. I’m just finishing up the touches on a sprawling talk showing how our 10+ years of research reveals the participatory dynamics of right wing media and he just … goes on Fox News and blurts out the punchline.

„Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis, as I did for my book Serving the Reich, cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders“ 🧪

So for every $1 in NIH funding to Alabama, there is $2.35 in economic activity supported. That’s a 135% ROI. Some people might see that as a good a thing.

Who do I know who is focused on #ruralhealth in the US? Let's (re)connect!

Let them eat internet.

I am not convinced "soft power" branding has resonance with those making decisions. One thing I see missing from almost every argument about saving PEPFAR and USAID more generally is why it _must_ be government and not the private sector to carry out these functions.

If you are doing a primary qualitative data collection, please don't just make your research questions into your interview questions.

In this next paper (doi.org/10.1093/pnas...), we showed in several experiments that that is indeed the case: 8/n

All, I'm in #Nairobi working on health systems (and, in particular, making innovation introduction and access more effective, efficient, and equitable). Who's here and who do I need to meet?

Denial of a wanted abortion increases a woman's risk of death by 2.5pp within 9 months, and causes more health issues, lower educational attainment, reduced labor force participation, and higher rates of poverty in the long-run.

'Safe and Effective' Is FDA-Speak. It's Time to Put It to Bed. Great piece by TNG's Executive Director Dr. Sara Gorman and other co-authors in MedPage Today. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

We need to invest in supporting & protecting trustworthy information sources and their ability to connect with the public through high-quality communication that reaches folks where and how they consume health content. On @popsugar.com. cc @kkjetelina.bsky.social www.popsugar.com/health/make-...

New @medpagetoday.bsky.social piece out today with Sara Gormin, Ken Rabin, & Scott Ratzan--and excellent editorial work by Genevieve (Jenny) Friedman. We call for those who communicate about vaccines to try framing them as 🌟 "worth it" 🌟 rather than repeating "safe and effective" like a mantra.

8/? That’s why we have Easter eggs and the egg on the Seder plate – to celebrate the return of eggs in the spring. A lot of traditional egg recipes—like for quiche or omelettes—call for other foods that are in season in the spring, like leeks or chives or asparagus.

Friends, I am on the hunt for something like 'the vaccine uncertain parent/caregiver guide to preparing to talk to your doctor about childhood vaccinations.' Bonus, of course, if it is evidence-informed and double-bonus if it has been tested. This may draw on the broader patient advocacy lit?

I'm thinking about marketplaces. What shopping websites do you enjoy (any why)?

Manhattan smog: fog + pollutants. From 1971-77, the Documerica project captured 20,000 images of America’s environmental impact. Explore these through the National Archives. The photo below is from Documerica—join the movement! Let’s not forget our past, or we’re bound to repeat it.

Punchline - generally if vaccines were available, CHWs got vaccinated. And in 2024, the worry and perceived risks were low - comparable or lower to other diseases. 2/3

I would like 'concision' to be a word rather than 'conciseness.' e.g., we should strive for precision and concision in our writing. Word does not think it is a word. Thank you.

A great way to end 2024! Our team’s first paper from our Mercury project, sharing Haitian, Malawian and Rwandan community health workers’ baseline survey results on COVID-19 vaccinations and perceptions. 1/3 esmed.org/MRA/mra/arti... @partnersinhealth.bsky.social @hlanthorn.bsky.social @ssrc.org

If you've never donated to Wikipedia, now's the time. Elon Musk is attacking it because it's one of the only sources of honest, curated information that he can't control. www.newsweek.com/elon-musk-ta...

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Free thesis idea. Compare and contrast The Who's 'Don't get fooled again' with Rip van Winkle.

Hey #econsky: Would the researchers out there trying to switch to #Rstats be interested in being matched up with collaborators that can help implement your analysis? Or is there already a way to solve this marching problem?

This week's #AmericaDissected w/Abdul El-Sayed suggests a nice RDD on the influence of social media, linking the COVID pandemic & dermatologist records (and/or skincare sales).

Writing is thinking. It’s not a part of the process that can be skipped; it’s the entire point.

We still have a relatively poor understanding of the relationship between evidence and policy. Program evaluation in particular is often motivated by a desire to make policy better. But how effective is program evaluation itself?Michelle Rao's JMP tackles this question. www.michellerao.com/research

1/ Glad to see this piece out in MedPage with Scott Ratzan & Ken Rabin of the Council for Quality Health Communication. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... To achieve health for all Americans, we must all be vitally concerned with the quality of health communication.

When I was 5, I loved science, which I took to be planets and magnets and chemicals and shit. Soon I realized science was a collective human activity, and these were just the objects of its attention. Anyway, whenever I read an OpEd on how science isn't political, I think "Are you 5 years old?"