Check out the new @socialprotection.org podcast episode featuring PRESTO’s @tiapalermo.bsky.social! 🎧 Listen here: socialprotection.org/learn/podcas...

🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+

Meet our guests: 🎙️ Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Southeast-Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School 🎙️ Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social, President at @prestopolicy.bsky.social ▶️ Tune in: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 📩 Subscribe to stay updated: bit.ly/SPpodcastList

We had the pleasure of working with an incredible group of researchers at JOOUST and are excited to see how they apply their new skills to advance research in economics, public health, and beyond. #impactevaluation #globalhealth #publichealth #economics #research

Last month, PRESTO’s Tia Palermo co-facilitated an impact evaluation training at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya, as part of American Institutes for Research’s P3-Africa training and mentoring program.

Would like this on a shirt, please. Applicable in too many situations to count. "Respectfully, he's making up some shit" ~Jolanda Jones, Texas State Representative

She presented how adverse childhood events influence program impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth productive outcomes in Tanzania, as part of a study done in collaboration with PRESTO under AIR’s P3 mentoring program. #uniceftanzania #cashplus #TransferProject #Tanzania #ESAAfrica25

Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.

Big wins for Working Families Party in New York's 2 biggest cities last night - NYC & #Buffalo!

This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.

Kicking off an exciting week at the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit! Dr. Dickson Wandeda (University of Nairobi) presented long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer on insurance uptake, morbidity & health seeking. #AES2025 #cashtransfers #TransferProject

The US administration has just demanded that UNICEF “re-focus on its core mandate of assisting children, including those impacted by environmental events such as natural disasters, without using the rigid casting of climate as a root cause” usun.usmission.gov/press-releas...

Join us tomorrow!

(1/2) We’ve enjoyed a productive spring so far! ⭐ A key highlight: Last month Dickson Wandeda and @tiapalermo.bsky.social presented at NYU’s Cash Transfer Lab on the long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer program on health and insurance uptake.

Join me as I busy the myths on gender and cash transfers with a fabulous co-panel.

Spectrum News in Buffalo, NY featured work by Dr. Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social highlighting how redlining policies reduce survival among women with breast cancer. spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

"as America declines & becomes more...embroiled in authoritarian ideology,...the emerging tool of choice minimizes active and engaged participation in learning...and developing a personal sense of curiosity and critical thinking." - @jysexton.bsky.social on AI open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social for her successful dissertation defense today! Sarah’s dissertation in #Epi at the University at Buffalo used data from the New York State Cancer Registry to examine how historical redlining influences mortality among breast cancer cases.

Proud to see my Alma mater SUNY Geneseo on this list standing up for academic freedom. www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Nobel-prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz on what this admin is doing to the economy: The US is a service economy. Manufacturing is <10% of the US economy. 1/3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAwB...

US tells UN's FAO to stop "distracting focus on climate" and instead help farmers adapt to drought & extreme heat. 🤔 usunrome.usmission.gov/u-s-statemen...

In a recent review, we examined 27 published studies that estimated the effect of social safety net programs on child maltreatment.16 of the studies found protective effects. Read more on our blog: www.policyresearchsolutions.com/post/social-...

PRESTO enjoyed our week in Nairobi collaborating with the @unicef.org Kenya social policy & communications teams! #ForEveryChild

Congratulations @smlima-mph.bsky.social on a great presentation! #cancer #redlining #structuralracism

Science not silence #handsoff

#handsoff Rochester NY

It was an inspiring week in Cotonou, Benin, collaborating with the @unicef.org Bénin team! We had co-creation sessions where UNICEF’s social policy and communications teams demonstrated the value of cross-sector teamwork. #SocialProtection #UNICEF #Benin #ForEveryChild

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

USAID spending was 0.3% of federal spending in 2024. Termination of funding for severe acute malnutrition is expected to cause an extra 163,500 child deaths this year. We can afford the financial cost, but the human cost from CHOOSING not to is unconscionable. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The current administration is directing the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to cancel a large number of on-going research grants to universities across the country.

If the $880 billion in cuts to Medicare & Medicaid passed by the House are enacted, impacts will be felt beyond access to healthcare. In a recent blog, I outline how #socialprotection programs like Medicaid reduce #childabuse & neglect in the US. www.policyresearchsolutions.com/post/social-...

Sanders: We are not a poor country! There is no excuse on God’s earth for people to have to choose between food and the medicine they need to stay alive.

Every American has the right to know what DOGE is doing with their personal information. I submitted a Privacy Act request to DOGE, demanding they tell me why they have my Social Security number and direct deposit information.

New blog by @valentinabarca.bsky.social et al. on "social protection in a post-USAID world." Important points on: 👉SP is a national model, not an aid model 👉more research needed 2 understand new challenges 👉need 2 invest in civil society so citizens demand SP socialprotection.org/discover/blo...

Just made a small donation to Big Big Table in #Buffalo, where "everybody eats & everybody matters." Check them out and donate here: www.bigbigtable.org/give

1/8 🚨📰 The March edition of our social protection newsletter is out! tinyurl.com/5e62syy7 In celebration of International Women’s Day on 8 March, this edition explores our curated content on gender and social protection! 🧵

New blog by Rebecca Holmes on @socialprotection.org highlights key priorities for gender-responsive social protection: 👉institutionalize GRSP 👉progressive tax reforms 👉collaboration on learning 👉recognize how social norms & dynamics influence delivery & impacts socialprotection.org/discover/blo...

"Policies that address poverty can have positive spillover effects on broader outcomes." Check out a new Public Health Post article about a study led by PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social with University at Buffalo collaborators: publichealthpost.org/health-equit...

Really interesting thoughts on the future of#socialprotection financing - including moving from heavy reliance on taxes on wages to levies on robotization, automation, or artificial intelligence earmarked for social insurance.

Policies and programs that address poverty can have positive spillover effects – in a recent study we showed that US programs like TANF, EITC, SNAP, and Medicaid expansion reduced child abuse & neglect. Read a short overview in Public Health Post below. publichealthpost.org/health-equit...

Today, we honor and celebrate women around the world. We're proud to contribute to the evidence base for women's well-being and gender equality. Check out some of our research here: www.policyresearchsolutions.com/projects #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction

“When you see important societal actors — be it university presidents, media outlets, C.E.O.s, mayors, governors — changing their behavior in order to avoid the wrath of the government, that’s a sign that we’ve crossed the line into some form of authoritarianism.”

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

Don’t tell me democracy is at risk and a constitutional crisis is unfolding and the best you got is a modified ping pong paddle.

Powerful words from Dr. Faith Danielle via the Advocacy Dose on Substack: • "For decades, the system has made its own people inert to self-advocacy, stripping them of the ability to resist when the moment demands it." Read the full post here: open.substack.com/pub/faithdan...

This is unconstitutional. A violation of the First Amendment. A violation of federalism and the separation of powers. It’s unconstitutionally vague. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful. It’s unlawful.

Ouch that's harsh.

UN human rights experts expressed concerns about the new US administration today – some key excerpts: • In today’s globalised and multi-polar world, no country can function without international cooperation and respect for international law. 1/3 www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

This is so well put: “That a group of people can just wake up and throw away decades of in-country partnerships... There are countries for whom the DHS is the sole source of national-level estimates. out of everything, *this* is what really really irks me...” www.linkedin.com/posts/activi...

#3 in our myths on gender and cash transfers in Africa series: Do cash transfers, particularly those targeted to households with young children, increase pregnancies and fertility? Read more: transfer.cpc.unc.edu/wp-content/u...