Academic institutions have to step up and do a better job of protecting and backing their people in the face of largely baseless but increasingly organized anti-DEI/anti-“w*ke” outrage and attacks. Especially Black women. #protectBlackwomen

Opioid deaths involving polydrug use are now more prevalent than those involving only opioids. What often goes unnoticed is that deaths involving more than 1 substance are increasing faster among Black Americans. That was the impetus for our latest study link.springer.com/article/10.100…

In light of last week’s anti-DEI bill in medical education that would punish medical schools with DEI programs, it’s reassuring to see the AAMC putting forward a statement reaffirming the importance of a healthcare workforce that reflects our diverse patient population!

Over 1000 people lost their lost their lives to a drug overdose in Missouri in the first six months of 2023. While a slight decrease compared to 2022, there is still an urgent need for naloxone and treatment/recovery resources to reduce these preventable deaths further.

Black faculty who engage in DEI research and teaching are being disproportionately targeted. chronicle.com/article/a-pawn…

“We are citizens of the most powerful country in the world, and it is a country that stands upon the wrong side of every liberation struggle on Earth. I want you to feel what that means.” ―Audre Lorde

🚨New Call for Papers!🚨Now through spring '25, we invite submissions for a new special issue: "Community-Engaged Harm-Reduction Research for Social Justice" at BMC's Harm Reduction Journal LMK of any questions! Learn more & submit here: biomedcentral.com/collections/ce…

Excited to see that one of our recent papers published in APA Journals American Journal of Orthopsychiatry has been spotlighted by Health Disparities. Check us out!!!

📣Excited to share I will be reviewing applications this fall for for the @WUSTL clinical psych PhD program! Students passionate about #eatingdisorders research, mHealth, & expanding access to care are strongly encouraged to apply!!

Oh heyyyyy Kay Campbell, MS, MA getting this well deserved AMERSA award!!! (Not to mention ending the summer by defending an incredible thesis 🙌) Way to go! Starting year 3 of grad school with a bang ‼️ 🤩🥳

I’m just a community-engaged researcher, shouting into the Twitter void, asking my institution to process partner invoices in a timely—or at least consistent—manner…because university bureaucracy means there’s no actual human I can ask about the delay. 😞

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Exciting opportunity for students and colleagues on the job market: WashU is hiring at all levels for its new School of Public Health, to be led by Dean Sandro Galea. This is a great opportunity to be part of the founding faculty at the new school. hereandnext.wustl.edu/initiatives/sc…

I’ve been scared to speak up more about Gaza. I feel unburdened to share I’ve been targeted & disparaged, as a Black woman physician, by nefarious forces within medicine, because of my pro-humanity stance, but NO MORE. I CANNOT be more scared than Palestinians in this moment.

New pub alert 🔔 Conducting this systematic review/meta-analysis was a goal I set at the start of grad school - proud of our team’s work and even more proud it’s published before graduation 🥳 50 days of free access with this link: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Missouri voters elected Trump and Hawley while making abortion legal, increasing the minimum wage, and voting down a raise for law enforcement. What a state

If I’m honest, I’ve been done here for a while. You can find me on the butterfly app.