Mike Mayer
@MichaelDeene
housing + homelessness policy | harm reduction and community | views my own | he/him
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26-10-2019 15:00:07
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Poor health & #homelessness are related. To address, we must focus on #housing , health system changes and #Medicaid reform.
New overview by @CheyenneMGarcia, Kelly Doran MD MHS & Margot Kushel MD in Feb Health Affairs explains:
Paper: healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.137…
Briefing: healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/he2…
Encampment clearings are ineffective and seriously harm people's health & wellbeing. Mike Mayer presents his research Health Affairs
We talked to #MassandCass encampment residents, who told us that tents felt safer (bc people were there to watch over them while they used) and more personalized/private than standard shelters, but that once swept away…
healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hl…
ICYMI: Still no action from Université d'Ottawa | University of Ottawa on the suspension of Dr. Yipeng Ge 葛义朋, a friend, and someone whose advocacy I have looked up to for a decade. Health workers have a right & duty to speak up for human rights. Support him here --
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As long as I have known Yipeng Ge 葛义朋, he has been committed to equity, anti-racism and justice. He has been unjustly suspended from residency, without due process, for supporting Palestinian human rights. Please tell Ottawa University this is not OK. change.org/p/reinstate-dr…
All week long, #JewsForCeasefire have been taking action.
How's it going?
Well, we've never seen Fox News more confused...
But from coast to coast, day after day, Jews & allies around the country made sure the urgent need for a #CeasefireNOW was impossible to ignore. 🧵
BREAKING: #JewsForCeasefire in Boston are sitting-in on the BU Bridge, begging our politicians to demand a ceasefire NOW.
Every day of war means more death, more starvation, more children losing limbs, more babies becoming orphans
It is unbearable, our souls cry out against it.