We're excited to open the Call for Abstracts for the SIREN 2025 National Research Meeting: Advancing the Science of Social Care, which will take place on February 2-4, 2025 in San Diego, California. Learn more and download the Call for Abstracts here: sirenetwork.ucsf.edu/2025-national-…

1/ New in NEJM, we discuss the implications of the recent @CMS place-of-service code (outreach site/street) for delivering care to patients experiencing unsheltered homelessness across the US and necessary steps to help sustain and scale street medicine. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In NEJM we review the implications of a new CMS place of service code ("outreach site/street") that will support care for patients experiencing homelessness. We then propose next steps needed to scale street medicine related to payment and workforce. nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

In JAMA Internal Medicine, we find alarming ⏫ in poor mental health and health inequities among transgender + gender-diverse 🏳️‍⚧️ adults. Rates of frequent mental distress (18.8% to 38.9%) and depression (19.7% to 51.3%) more than doubled between 2014 and 2022! jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Michael Liu et al. report that the mental well-being of #transgender folks is on the decline. Kellan E. Baker Dr. Arjee Restar & I note "political leaders [need] to stop playing political games with the lives of [trans] people." jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Out now in Clinical Infectious Diseases we find that HIV funding reallocation in Tennessee would do more harm than good, leading to 190 deaths over the next 10 years. MGH Medical Practice Evaluation Center (MPEC) MassGeneral Medicine HIV Medicine Association Nashville CARES Friends Vanderbilt Health academic.oup.com/cid/advance-ar…

At #ARM24, Michael Liu presents data on how a new health equity adjustment in CMSGov Hospital Value-Based Purchasing will lead to more equitable changes in program payments across US hospitals Published in JAMA jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/…

In our latest in Annals of Family Medicine, we find that identity concordance between patients🧓& providers🧑‍⚕️play an important role in 🩺 care seeking behaviors among sexual and gender minority 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (SGM) populations annfammed.org/content/22/4/3… Brief 🧵 1/6