Amazing stat from Bangladesh: 64% of Rohingya refugees are willing to forego cash transfers in order to keep working part time for the same amount of money. ht Sandra Rozo aeaweb.org/articles?id=10…

Attended, on Zoom, a fantastic lecture organized by Banglar Pathshala, Dhaka, on Amartya Sen’s philosophy & writings on public reasoning. The lecture by Anirban Chattopadhyay covered Sen, Mill, Rawls, Anthony Appiah. It was impressive also to see such wide interest.

Why do people stay poor? Clare Balboni (MIT Economics), @orianabandiera (LSE Department of Economics), Robin Burgess (LSE Department of Economics), Maitreesh Ghatak (LSE Department of Economics) & Anton Heil (LSE Department of Economics) on poverty traps and the implications for development policy: youtu.be/qS-z1UvaYRs

Important piece from Neil Lewis, Jr., PhD ChomiloMD & Marina Del Rios Rivera, MD, MS about the many health inequities that #covid19 exacerbated. Any narrative that suggests otherwise just isn’t true.

A triple crisis of health, climate + lost development is looming in the Global South. A new proposal lays out a blueprint for comprehensive debt relief to free up resources + help countries mount green, inclusive recoveries. Here's how it would work: gdpcenter.org/3souvDr

"If you're not at the table, you're on the menu". Join Dr. Catherine Kyobutungi Muzukulu wa Bityo @paimadhu Dr Githinji Gitahi, MBS Marie-Claire (MC) Wangari #InTheEyesOfMC pattersonsiema and I as we discuss 'Anti-blackness in Global Health' next Monday 31.10.2022 at 15h00 East African Time. #DecolonizeGlobalHealth Register here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Delighted to announce the launch today of our new book, “The Commercial Determinants of Health.” Special thanks to co-editors Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social and Nason Maani for their partnership – it was a pleasure to collaborate on this. Order here from Oxford Academic: bit.ly/3fn8JNk

SPH alum Barbara Ferrer of LA Public Health: "Vaccines are not an equalizer." She goes on to explain that unvaccinated people living in the wealthiest communities have a lower rate of hospitalization than people in communities with high rates of poverty who are fully vaccinated.

Thank you Dr. Mary T. Bassett Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard Harvard Public Health magazine and all who joined us for today’s discussion about the role of reparations in closing racial health gaps. #Reparations4Health

Interested in what we know abt measurement, prevalence & dynamics around sexual harassment in the global south? Our friends @heidistoeckl Isabelle Pearson Joyce Wamoyi have ya covered 👇🏾 Quant [49 studies]: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/bmjope… Qual [34 studies]: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

Signing our book, “The Picture of Health,” with Michael Stein, until 2:30 pm at APHA's Annual Meeting & Expo. Join us! APHA Boston University School of Public Health #APHA2022

Dr. Dilip Mahalanabis was a pioneer. His work to treat diarrheal disease amid a humanitarian crisis & invention of oral rehydration therapy helped save 54M lives in the past 50 yrs. Although I didn't get to meet him in person, he will be missed greatly. ft.com/content/65b0ab…

🚨 WANT TO LEARN HOW TO COLLECT DATA FROM TWITTER WITH THE NEW "ACADEMIC DEVELOPER TRACK"? 🚨 Check out this wonderful video featuring Suhem Parack which we recorded at the Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science Duke University last summer: youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4pGP…

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I'm hiring a postdoc to collaborate on some exciting new aging/life course projects at BU! Apps due 2/18. ASA SALC Gerontology Research PAA ASA Pop Section ASA Medical Sociology APHA Aging & Public Health Section Division 20 bu.edu/ciss/files/202…

The South Asian Public Health Association expresses our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the families and friends of the recent victims of the horrific tragedy in Monterey Park, CA.  Please read our full statement below:

A recent The Washington Post opinion piece speculated that COVID-19 deaths are over-counted. Our new The Conversation U.S. article explains why this piece is flawed. COVID-19 deaths are not overcounted; most evidence indicates they are undercounted. Thread 1/6 theconversation.com/covid-19-death…

"Geriatric" pregnancy. "Incompetent" cervix. "Hostile" uterus. Why do some words evolve, while others go on haunting moms’ medical charts like the ghosts of medicine past? 👻 For The Atlantic, I investigate the strange realm of pregnancy language: theatlantic.com/health/archive…

UPDATED: our massive database of PhD fellowships is available for download. We list 195 different fellowships with description of the award, eligibility criteria, deadline and amount. Download for free here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-op…

So proud to see Kazi Mukit writing on #AMR in the leading English newspaper in Bangladesh. Great op-ed. The first of many! @BUsociologydept BU Center for Innovation in Social Science Boston University Global Development Policy Center BU Pardee Center Pardee School of Global Studies, Boston University Md. Hasan Zaman Sociology of Development ASA Medical Sociology Center on Emerging Infectious Diseases (CEID) @jonshaffer @A1RWhite @BaharAldanmaz