My doc friend and colleague leif hass beautifully describes how love (and homemade porridge) can enable recovery from COVID. sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

Communicating about health and illness is as old as language itself. How has social media changed this? CVP Health Communications Research Team just published a new framework to understand the influences of social media on public health. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.21… Dean Schillinger

Youth-centered poetry & health workshops offer a safe haven during the COVID-19 pandemic Watch youthspeaks' Raising Health here: youtube.com/watch?v=B9FavB…

Study of 100K US primary school students shows that the distance learning model significantly impaired children’s literacy levels, with the greatest losses seen in children from historically “lower-achieving” districts. nytimes.com/live/2021/03/0…

CVP's The Bigger Picture—an arts-based public health campaign—released “Survival Pending Revolution” featuring young Black, Latinx, & Asian/Pacific Islander poets as they reconcile the suffering and loss caused by COVID-19 with the promise of a vaccine. thebiggerpicture.youthspeaks.org/covid-19

Most doctors use language that is too complex for patients to understand. A new paper in Science Advances from CVP's co-founder Dean Schillinger & team finds that Precision Communication can solve this problem & promote #healthequity.🧵

The good news? Low HL patients who had doctors that used simple words and sentences had 30% greater understanding than those who didn't! This is Precision Communication, where doctors change their language to match patients' level of health literacy. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Amazing to see NIH promote our paper on precision communication! Shout out to my colleagues at ASU, GSU, and Kaiser DOR

In their new Forefront article, Dean Schillinger, Ann Bullock, + William H. Herman from UC San Francisco, Indian Health Service, + University of Michigan School of Public Health discuss how the NCCC report has the potential to contribute to meaningful change across the diabetes continuum and beyond. bit.ly/3nml3hH

The time has come to confront type 2 diabetes as a societal problem, not just a biomedical one. A new federal commission report makes the case

Open Access! "Seeing 'The Bigger Picture:'Impact of an Arts-Focused Type 2 Diabetes Education Program in High Schools"examines how the integration of civic engagement opportunities into curriculum might impact students’ capacity to create positive change. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

UCSF IHPS affiliated faculty Dean Schillinger (Dean Schillinger) in The New York Times Medical Care Alone Won’t Halt the Spread of Diabetes, Scientists Say nytimes.com/2022/10/05/hea…

Justin White and co-workers report an evaluation of the 2017 sugar-sweetened beverage tax enacted in Oakland in California. doi.org/10.1371/journa… Justin White Dean Schillinger UCSF IHPS UCSF Epidemiology & Biostatistics @UCBerkeleySPH @ucsfcvp #health #economics #nutrition

I just appeared on Alec Baldwin’s podcast (yes, that guy!) describing the state of the diabetes epidemic and root causes of its inequities. Check it out! iheart.com/podcast/1119-h…

On Tuesday, July 16, my new book, “Telltale Hearts: a Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story” will be released! You can purchase it here and find the dates of my local book events. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dean-da…

Local book events: July 22 at 7pm via Zoom, Pt Reyes Bookstore, interviewed by Daniel Handler; Wednesday, July 24 at 7pm at Green Apple Books on 9th and Irving in SF by José Vadi; Sunday, August 11 at 2pm at Book Passages, Ferry Building #42, SF Embarcadero, by Ashley McMullen

At least someone is enjoying my new book release… hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dean-da…

The brilliant author Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) will interview me about my new book for The Point Reyes Bookstore tomorrow at 7pm PST. The event will be held via Zoom so please join! Pre-registration is required. ptreyesbooks.com/event/dean-dav…

My book Telltale Hearts: a Public Health Doctor, His Patients, and the Power of Story. hachettebookgroup.com/titles/dean-da… was positively reviewed today: nytimes.com/2024/08/03/hea… via @NYTimes#

Review: A doctor’s hard lessons learned at San Francisco General Hospital | Datebook datebook.sfchronicle.com/books/review-t…