Sagar Mehta, MD
@sagarm91
Pediatric resident @The_BMC and @BostonChildrens, interested in public health and policy to advance health equity. @DukeU and @WUSTLmed alum
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Please call your local legislator and ask them to support House Bill H4802, which allows appropriations for COVID-19 spending in support of the Project Bread FoodSource Hotline, enhancing the SNAP outreach program, and providing emergency operational costs for School Meal Sites.
#COVID19 has thrown accelerant on pre-existing health and healthcare inequities and structural racism. Thank you to MMWR for helping Boston Medical Center share our experience caring for patients who bear the highest burden of #COVID19 exposure and illness. Thea James @KateWalshCEO
Excited to share our new study in JAMA Network Open-more evidence that value-based incentive programs function as a disproportionate penalty system for safety-net hospitals without meaningful benefits for patients: ja.ma/2ZRnrRa This is #StructuralRacism in action. 🧵 1/
Did your hospitals #AntiRacism pledge include efforts to help #SickleCellWarriors? If not, you've got more work to do! 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏼 Pat McGann, MD & I outlined some steps to get you started nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… #PHOdocs #hematopoieticjustice #SickleCellAwarenessMonth #MedTwitter
1/2 What is structural racism, how does it impact and drive health disparities in the United States, and what can we do to address it and work towards #healthequity? Thanks to creators Ariana Mora & Kaitlin Sandor, editors @daughertyler & @cg_coleman, & reviewer Marshall Fleurant
Explore the data presented in today's State of Hunger webinar in the new research brief by Boston Indicators Children's HealthWatch & Project Bread: bostonindicators.org/reports/report…
Promoting health means addressing the roots of sickness; in the US, this means addressing the historic legacy of slavery. New in NEJM, wrote with Dr. Mary T. Bassett on how reparations can help end health divides and build a healthier nation. bit.ly/2I4Vb8e Boston University School of Public Health @DrIbram
Please take a moment to read this powerful perspective piece on the challenges deaf and hard-of-hearing people face with the COVID-19 pandemic, written by my colleague Dr. Bonnie Crume, a @TheBCRP resident at Boston Children's & Boston Medical Center. bit.ly/36XRCeo
Please check out this powerful and personal piece by @TheBCRP resident @_DrJ on intersectionality in healthcare. We are so incredibly lucky to learn from you and your amazing advocacy. Boston Medical Center Boston Children's
Check out our thoughts on why and how pediatricians should encourage patient civic engagement in this election and beyond! #Vote AAP Peds Trainees American Academy of Pediatrics
New study in JAMA Pediatrics led by ultra-talented mentee, @DrJamieLim (also @JoelEarlywine & @marshall__lab). In youth aged 13-25, it's now more common than not for #opioid overdoses to ALSO involve cocaine, meth. We can't focus only on opioids. jamanetwork.com/journals/jamap…
Why I love my job Boston Medical Center ! Teams of people working to safely and equitably distribute vaccines to their front line colleagues getting cheered on by their friends celebrating the arrival of the vaccines! A great day, a great place. ❤️
Great work by Rohini Jain, MD @ckelly60637 Sagar Mehta, MD Destiny Tolliver, MD, MHS Amanda Stewart, MD MPH Joanna Perdomo, MD describing A Trainee-led Social Media Advocacy Campaign to Address COVID-19 Inequities. @TheBCRP Boston Medical Center Boston Children's AAP Journals pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/…
Today while caring for a pediatric patient with fever, I learned the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines for UTI in infants and young children with fever support differential treatment of UTI for Black and White children based on race. 1/ pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/128/3/…
We celebrate the end of a damaging, harmful policy that caused immigrant families to forgo needed services. Now that the Justice Department chose to stop defending the Trump Administration’s public charge rule, it is no longer in effect. Our statement: services.aap.org/en/news-room/n…