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🧵 New Special Communication examines drawing causal inferences about the effects of interventions from observational studies in medical journals and suggests a framework that might be used. ja.ma/3UxeAjL

Some professional news! After 5 years fruitful years RAND I’m transitioning to USC’s Center for Economic and Social Research starting next week. Not only does CESR have a great group of health and development researchers, but it’s also very close to my house😀.

My new op-ed in LA Time with Craig Fox latimes.com/opinion/story/…

New paper alert! Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away (the U.S., 2020), a health policy shock happened. Well, a lot of shocks happened. It was a shocking time. I digress. One shock that happened is that many insurers made telehealth available at $0 cost sharing. 1/n

Submit your papers to PacDev at UCLA USC Economics -- deadline is Dec 2. Will be a great conference! usc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bO…

This study by Zachary Wagner and colleagues builds on emerging evidence by examining the relationship between adherence to #dolutegravir-based regimens and viral suppression in #Uganda. Read the full article here: bit.ly/40MyZWN

Rubio claims that USAID lifesaving assistance for health and humanitarian needs will continue. But his team just communicated that the entire agency will be imminently reduced from 14,000 to 294 people. Just 12 in Africa.

It's entirely reasonable to both think university indirect rates are too high and a 15% ceiling is too low We want universities to be transparent and efficient But if they have to subsidize the research enterprise, it won't happen at most institutions

This decision is misguided on multiple levels. First, $4 billion a year is a trivial amount for the wealthiest country in history—especially when compared to the cost of weakening one of its greatest assets: its research institutions. Second, the damage this will inflict on

VP Vance asked for a thank you for an aid package he voted against. His administration also told Zelensky that he (1) has to give up parts of his country to Putin , (2) cant join NATO, (3) has to pay back the US for past aid, and (4) there will no new aid. So exactly why does

Nothing will kill more children than the ongoing decimation of CDC, NIH, and USAID work to lift vaccine uptake in the US and world. Child survival rose 75% in the last 50 years. Vaccines account for 40% of that. Measles vax alone was 60% of the benefit. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Most people assume national household surveys are uniformly high quality. But a new study finds massive subnational differences in data quality across 35 African countries. Here's the breakdown:

Our new PNASNews paper finds exposure to a tropical cyclone around the time of primary school enrollment reduces the likelihood of ever attending school. Led by excellent Stanford postdoc Renzhi Jing. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New research has shown that exposure to tropical cyclones was linked to infant mortality in seven low- and middle-income countries between 2002 and 2021. scim.ag/3FmFVlh

DEADLY IMPACTS: Researchers used tropical cyclone data for low- and middle-income countries and more than 1.6 million child records to compare deaths before and after a tropical cyclone. foxweather.com/extreme-weathe…