Just saw that this article is live (still 'in press'): Nwadiuko J, Planey AM, Zewde N & Bustamante AV. (2025) GDP per capita and physician migration across world regions, 2000–2021. Globalization & Health www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/41340...

“Camp East Montana” is the tent camp on Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was supposed to be where people would be held for max 14 days. She was held there three months.

New paper out in Globalization and Health on physician migration and development. We tested a long-standing tacit assumption: as countries get wealthier (higher GDP per capita), they send fewer physicians abroad. The answer is a bit more complicated. 1/n link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Yup definitely suspicious

The International Monetary Fund asked me to review the literature on migration economics to draw lessons for low-income countries. In a new @iza.org paper, I argue that policy for the 21st century must discard four outdated ideas. www.iza.org/publications... 🧵 thread—>

What if we could harness the complexity of the real world to guide clinical questions? Atheen Venkataramani and Lizzie Bair explore this in their new paper by diving into how real-world shocks and policy changes could help answer the Q: Does this treatment work? evidence.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Nursing home effort fluctuates with the inspection cycle, affecting patient survival. Unpredictable inspection schedules may boost effort and save lives, from Ashvin Gandhi, Andrew Olenski, and Maggie Shi www.nber.org/papers/w34491

I spoke with @theintercept.com for a piece that @onofftherecord.bsky.social & @foiaroundnfindout.bsky.social investigated regarding the care at detention facilities as told through the 911 calls at Stewart, which include a worrisome number of head injuries: theintercept.com/2025/12/12/s...

In late 2020 a Chinese man called Guan Heng travelled to Xinjiang with our BuzzFeed map of detention facilities to provide ground truth for our work - he provided the first corroborating evidence for many sites. He escaped to the US - then ICE detained him. www.wsj.com/world/china/...

This is why I say that the p*lice are defunding YOU

Check out new analysis by @edwinebarasa.bsky.social et al. Warns that as donor funding declines, many LMICs are adopting shifting costs to households, over-reliance on insurance, sidelining PHC, and weakening community health threaten equity and UHC progress. 🔗 gh.bmj.com/content/10/1...

I suspect as we get closer to the World Cup, you'll see more columns about soccer from me! "As the Haiti v. Brazil match in Philadelphia was announced this week, Haitian community members promised jubilation, tears and rara." www.inquirer.com/opinion/worl...

New @thenyic.bsky.social report, that I co-authored, on how ICE arrests have changed nationally, and especially in New York State, since Trump took office. www.nyic.org/wp-content/u... gothamist.com/news/latinos...

New editorial out at JAMA Network Open: Richmond, Planey, & Kong (2025) Addressing Inequities in Postpartum Readmissions jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Checkout this summary of our work on health workforce in immigration detention!

🚨New Paper🚨 US doctors are paid very different amounts for treating different patients—even when providing identical services. How much less are physicians paid for treating non-White patients? In @jamahealthforum.com, we offer the 1st national estimates. (1/7) jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The foreign-born fraction of the US population was 15% in 1890, and in 1910. America thrived. That fraction is 16% now. The difference is that in 1890/1910, >96% of immigrants were from Europe or Canada. Today that's less than 10%. It's best to be honest about one one is actually afraid of.

🚨🚨 Sharing my latest in BMJ Global Health about a slow growing and underappreciated crisis in global health: the countries that have the highest health workforce shortages are also suffering from significant HW unemployment, as LMIC countries struggle to accommodate their graduates:

Thrilled to share that Chris Duncan, whose conviction was vacated in April, was just granted bail today, after spending over 25 years on Louisiana's death row. It's so rare to get good news when you're covering capital punishment, but this is one very real light in the darkness

🚨 Some new work by myself and others in @journalgim.bsky.social: Health staffing in ICE facilities is challenged, with many facilities often finding themselves without physicians and mental health professionals and 12% of sampled physicians having a record of state sanctions:

I’m enjoying the games and the drama, but I honestly believe if I was a real fan of either of these teams I’d be dead from a coronary.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

Police once charged a man w assaulting a cop bc of the liquid he “threw” on the cop. The liquid? The man’s blood. Which was flying off his face. Which the cop had just punched. Far too often the cops arrest ppl for the harms done by the police. I’m hoping we are seeing a critical overreach now.

New: Correctional staff at a Western Maryland prison shut off the water to a mentally ill man’s cell, then allowed him to suffer for eight days before he finally died of dehydration, according to a recent court filing. www.thebanner.com/community/cr...

People across the country are fighting for their lives and also to protect their neighbors. They are doing so in the 100s of thousands every single day. You can choose to join the fight or you can pretend that "no one is doing anything."

Mixed methods.

This is called policy-based evidence making (the antipode of evidence-based policymaking, a thing we should all want)

You can listen to my recent interview with WBUR's Here & Now: www.npr.org/2025/10/01/n...

I'm of the view that, when @adamprz.bsky.social writes about democracy, we should pay a lot of attention... adamprzeworski.substack.com/p/musings-1

Last week, I and others reported 5+ ICE flights had landed in Ghana since it began taking third-country nationals on Sept. 5. Now eNCA confirms at least one of those flights held Liberian, Nigerian and Togolese nationals, who were driven to Togo and dumped w/o papers. www.enca.com/news/west-af...

Okay One Battle After Another lives up to the hype

We all need some good news 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 “The revolutionary HIV prevention tool, injectable lenacapavir, will be available at a cost of US$40 a year in 120 low- and middle-income countries starting in 2027” @unitaid.bsky.social CHAI Wits RHI unitaid.org/news-blog/le...

Wow, literally pocketing fees from prisoners. That's dark.

W/ immigrant detention constantly in the news, I share my portfolio of peer-reviewed research on harms of this system. In @jamanetworkopen.com, we show alarmingly high prevalence of poor health, mental illness & PTSD for all, w/ esp high rates for those detained 6+mo. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

This is why @mskellymhayes.bsky.social was right when she said it’s not hypocrisy, it’s hierarchy. I can do what I want, but when you do it to me it’s illegal, because I’m above critique and above the law.

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

It’s now officially official. PrimeCare is out at Dauphin County Prison after years of allegations of medical neglect and conflicts of interest. Mediko will take over on October 1. This is big! www.pennlive.com/news/2025/09...

The Women’s Refugee Commission Detention Pregnancy Tracker: A Critical Tool for Documenting the Treatment of Pregnant Women in Immigration Detention 🚨 Have you seen a pregnant woman in ICE custody? Submit a report today. -- Please share widely! austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-womens...

the thing to understand is that for many people the violence of order maintenance is simply not seen as violence in the first place

Huh an awful lot of rhetoric shifted from Old Testament to New Testament over the past few hours

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Academic authors, here's a peek into the black box of journal publishing from an journal editor if you can bear it:

This is pure Willie Hortonism. The message is this: as long as there is just one bad weekend, or one bad event, crime cannot be “down” and we cannot be “safe.” We are only “safe” based on impossible standards, and we can never get “safer” as long as some risk exists.

As a friend recently put it: the venn diagram of people who assured us the gun violence was worth it because we need the guns to protect ourselves against a tyrannical federal government and the people cheering on Trump as he deploys the military to take over American cities is a circle

Now that we're experiencing life under authoritarianism in the US, I'm struck by how it's a lot like living in a high-crime environment. (I grew up in Rio de Janeiro.) 1/

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.