New study from Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) draws attention to rising maternal mortality in the US over the last 20 years, with particularly high (and increasing since 2019) rates for American Indian/Alaska Native and Black Americans in more than half of states. jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

ICYMI, Idaho GOP calls COVID vaccine a "weapon" and asks the AG to seize all COVID #vaccines. It's just a resolution (there's nothing enforceable here) but it shows how this party is not only fully on the anti-vax bandwagon, but also driving it now. idgop.org/wp-content/upl…

Exciting to see the The White House's latest report on how they've tackled #administrative #burdens in public programs: whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl… #Sludge makes it hard for people to access critical public services, impeding economic opportunity, well-being, and health. 🧵

last night, I learned a colleague has been using capabilities approach to address deprivations among Masai in Kenya. lessons for global health. so much amazing / courageous work gets drowned out by the.... . Cambridge Global Health Partnerships HDCA Minority Rights Group journals.lww.com/EDHE/Fulltext/…

Warm welcome to Caesar Atuire’s Caesar Atuire talk on Friday. Please join ☺️👇🏻 uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/m…

Want to know more about the #MultidimensionalPoverty Index from UN Development and OPHI? WATCH this explainer to learn how it can help shed light on the complexity of poverty around the world. go.undp.org/yQWH

Do you use #BehavioralScience to improve health or health care? Submit an abstract by 7/21 and your work could be featured at our Nudges in Health Care Symposium this September! Details at pennmed1.org/NHCS23_a #NudgeSymp23 #Nudges #Research

“We have a really massive public health crisis, where essentially the industry controls our food supply,” Christina A. Roberto says. “So the notion of informing the public about what’s in their food, I find it very hard to argue against that.” ft.com/content/326c4c…

In Health Affairs, #FSP Scholar & Making a Difference Grantee Brendan Saloner and colleagues wrote about pandemic plans in carceral settings. Many were unprepared, they write, and action is needed for future responses to be more equitable and effective. healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…

Race-neutrality in #SCOTUS rulings is detached from reality. Eg: pragmatic measure of racism (in paper&⬇️): Black & Native Am=2x higher share of most disadvantaged. Worse: Are just 1/5 and 1/50 of white ppln. Need genuine equality of opportunity in education, health & beyond.

I have a new paper in JAMA with Mary Ziegler & Eli Adashi on a threat to abortion access that we think that has not received enough attention in the medical community: The Comstock act. We explain what it is, how it threatens abortion access, and what the courts should do

The U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) asked for views on how to make foreign funded (global health) research being done in low and middle income countries more equitable. the summary of findings. . fic.nih.gov/About/center-g…

"It is time to take responsibility for the racism – historic and contemporary, structural, and interpersonal – that drives racial disparities in birth outcomes in the United States." -LDI Fellows Rebecca Clark and Rachel French, PhD, RN. Read more on our blog. ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/resea…

Call for submissions for the 2024 World Congress of Bioethics is open!

Getting geared up for another provocative, engaging, inspiring and useful Aspen Ethical Leadership Program #AELP23! Please retweet to spread the word, and apply to attend if you are a health system leader grappling with these challenging issues. colo.health/AELP23

In way too many ways. I'm partial, of course, but we really need to pay attention to direct impacts (lower Black physical rates and assoc. lower life expectancy in Black communities) & indirect ones, whether via chilling effects or legal action by now emboldened groups, see:⬇️

In a viewpoint for JAMA, Harald Schmidt (UPenn Medical Ethics & Health Policy) argues that the Supreme Court's recent rulings on race neutrality threaten public health programs designed to advance health equity & improve population health rb.gy/ibr2u

In which I reset my reference point on appropriate amount of living space, experience Dunning-Kruger effect as a harvest intern at a winery, fail to meet New Zealand's Prime Minister due to base rate neglect, and visit a lot of pubs in Oxford.

Many congrats what a win-win-win all around!

Lots of debate re 2024 International Association of Bioethics World Congress location (Qatar). Important. But global bioethics equity debate is broader: All need to actively engage in next phase. Not engaging isn't neutral. It's being complicit in sustaining inequitable status quo jme.bmj.com/content/50/9/5…