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Jamie Daw

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Health policy prof generating evidence to improve maternal-child health @columbiahpm.bsky.social. Co-lead of the Postpartum Assessment of Health Survey (PAHS). Views are my own.

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KFF Health News @kffhealthnews.org · 15/01/2026
With their communities facing some of the highest rates of maternal death, Native American leaders are increasingly working with state mortality review committees to better address the crisis. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...
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Native Americans Are Dying From Pregnancy. They Want a Voice To Stop the Trend. - KFF Health News
Native American women face higher rates of death than other demographics. In response, Native Americans have been working with state and federal officials to boost tribal participation and leadership ...
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Important finding: 18% of immigrant parents report they’re avoiding signing up for government health care and other programs This is the “chilling effect” in action which will lead to more uninsured kids 1/4 kids in U.S. have an immigrant parent; most kids are citizens www.kff.org/immigrant-he...
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KFF/New York Times 2025 Survey of Immigrants: Health and Health Care Experiences During the Second Trump Administration | KFF
This report, based on a KFF/New York Times survey from fall 2025, provides data on health and health care experiences of immigrant adults ages 18 and over in the current policy environment. Four in te...
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
Come be my colleague! Yale School of Public Health has an open-rank search for Health Policy & Management. Focus areas are empirical research in health policy, healthcare management or health services research. You still have time! apply.interfolio.com/176891
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
Sharing some encouraging news re: CDC PRAMS. The CDC has indicated they will weight and clean the 2024 PRAMS data. Also, the PRAMS data collection system (PIDS) is up and running again and some sites have begun 2025 PRAMS data collection. Hopefully restoration of the ARF portal is coming soon too.
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Noam Ross @noamross.net · 08/06/2025
NEW at grant-watch.us: Emma Mairson and Marian Jarlenski report on funding freezes at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, and Northwestern, that have received zero payments for #NIH grants since the start of April: grant-watch.us/posts/trends...
Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Brown University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $15,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $10,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 10% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Columbia University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $40,000,000 and $60,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to approximately $20,000,000 in April 2025 and to $0 in May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years fluctuate but remain generally above $25,000,000. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain mostly below 20%.Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Cornell University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays between $10,000,000 and $20,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show some variability but generally stay above $0, with some dips. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 20% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years show more variability than Harvard and Northwestern, with some spikes, as well, but returning to normal levels after.Two line graphs show NIH Outlays for Grants at Northwestern University. The left graph, "Outlay per month (USD)," shows monthly outlays from October (P01-P02) to June (P09) for fiscal years 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025. The 2025 line (black) shows outlays around $30,000,000 from October 2024 to March 2025, then drops sharply to $0 in April 2025 and remains at $0 for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain above $25,000,000 throughout the period. The right graph, "Percent of grants without an outlay," shows the percentage of grants without monthly outlays over the same period. The 2025 line (black) shows percentages below 15% until March 2025, then spikes to 100% in April 2025 and remains at 100% for May and June. Lines for previous fiscal years remain below 20%.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Only 25% of moms in US report 'excellent' mental health, marking an alarming decline abcnews.go.com/GMA/Wellness...
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Only 25% of moms in US report 'excellent' mental health, marking an alarming decline
Experts warn that worsening maternal mental health can have a ripple effect across generations.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
New study out @jamainternalmed.com examining trends in self-reported mental and physical health among female parents in the U.S. We find a large—63% increase—in moms reporting fair or poor mental health from 2016 to 2023. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Trends and Disparities in Maternal Self-Reported Mental and Physical Health
This cross-sectional study examines trends and disparities in self-reported maternal physical and mental health between 2016 and 2023 in the US.
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Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health @hsph.harvard.edu · 16/05/2025
With nearly all of Harvard Chan School’s direct federal grants terminated, we are relying on philanthropy to power our research and support our educational programs. Every gift, regardless of size, advances our vision of health, dignity, and justice for every human. Support our work: hsph.me/whygive
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Karen Benjamin Guzzo @karenguzzo.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
"What we don't talk about, we don't study – we don't treat. So if people are not aware of the whole range of experiences that people can have both during pregnancy and afterwards, then they can't get the care that they need." @kzivin.bsky.social on why PRAMS is important.
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Federal survey of new moms is on pause. What does that mean for postpartum health?
At the same time President Trump wants to encourage Americans to have more babies and reverse declining birth rates, his administration has also stopped collecting key data to better understand the he...
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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Women's Health Initiative defunded after 30 years and 5,000 publications www.whi.org/md/news/whi-...
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Adam Sacarny @asacarny.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Come work with Kosali Simon & me @nber.org! We're hiring a Research Scientist to support exciting new work on Alzheimer's disease and dementia in Medicare. If you have a quant PhD, experience with claims data, and knowledge of R, it could be a great match! More info: www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing....
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American Economic Association: JOE Listings - February 1, 2025 - July 31, 2025
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 16/04/2025
Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Ah yes. Let's stop research on perhaps the most brutal disease in existence, the one without any really good treatments.
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Malinda Lo @malindalo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Harvard redid its whole homepage to push back against the administration’s demands. I mean, this is just a website but I think it’s kind of a great PR move: www.harvard.edu
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Harvard University
Harvard University is devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally.
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CUIMC Stands Up @cuimcstandsup.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Join us on Monday as we call on Columbia and the Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, research, teaching and patients! 📍Low Library Steps ⏰ 12:30pm Monday April 14
Flyer that says: CUIMC Stands Up
Join Columbia physicians, nurses, researchers, and faculty as we call on our Board of Trustees to resist the Trump administration's assault on our students, our research, our teaching, and our patients.
Monday, April 14th
12:30pm
Low Library Steps
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Dashboard updates jeremymberg.github.io/jeremyberg.g... 1/n
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Science Magazine @science.org · 09/04/2025
Exclusive: Weeks after President Donald Trump’s administration ordered NIH to pull $250 million in biomedical research grants to Columbia University, the agency is freezing all remaining grant money owed to the university until further notice. scim.ag/4if5Rg1
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
Amid negotiations with Trump, the university could risk losing nearly $700 million
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
BREAKING: In the massive HHS RIFs today, one program that is now in limbo is PRAMS — the gold standard dataset for infant and maternal health in the US 🧪 #medsky www.statnews.com/2025/04/01/p...
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Gold-standard maternal mortality database in limbo as CDC staff placed on leave
As part of the sweeping layoffs that rocked HHS, the entire staff that oversaw an annual survey to better understand infant and maternal health was placed on administrative leave.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
"The NIH official said they had put in paperwork to leave the agency. 'I don’t want to be part of the dismantling of American science,' the official said."
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Trump promised scientific breakthroughs. Researchers say he’s breaking science.
NIH funding for biomedical research has abruptly fallen by billions of dollars, with many grant decisions on hold. Trump officials say they’re reviewing the agency.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A more comprehensive list of terminated NIH grants that doesn't rely only on those reported on HHS TAGGS but also from affected PIs and other sources. Thank you @scott-delaney.bsky.social and team! #lostscience
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
NIH terminations go beyond the list posted on taggs.hhs.gov (which is the source my recently posted google sheet is based on). Folks at Harvard @scott-delaney.bsky.social @britshmit.bsky.social are leading the charge to gather this info - please contribute if you have been affected! #lostscience
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
🚨I converted the list of terminated #NIH grants (as of 3/22) into a google sheet. I added activity codes and award jurisdictions (see tabs for grant count and $ by each). Note this HHS list likely does not include all planned/completed terminations as of this date.🚨 Please use, share and distribute!
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List of Terminated NIH Grants as of 3-22-2025 (Source: https://taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data/HHS_Grants_Terminated.pdf)
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
The list of terminated NIH grants is growing. Now 14 pages (was 6 pages last week).
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Andrea Baccarelli @deanbaccarelli.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
With support from federal funding, @hsph.harvard.edu faculty have conducted groundbreaking research that has led directly to treatments, policies, and programs that have saved lives by the millions, in the US and around the world. Here are just three examples: hsph.harvard.edu/news/federal...
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Federal funding drives groundbreaking research at Harvard Chan School | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
Harvard Chan faculty conduct groundbreaking research that has led directly to lifesaving vaccines, treatments, policies, and programs.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
It’s been a rough couple weeks here at Columbia. An inspiring talk from @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social was exactly the medicine we needed to remind us all why we do what we do and the impact that research can have on people’s lives #healthpolicy
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Aaron Schwartz @aschwartz.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
We are the world’s laboratory. It’s not even close.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
"The attack on Columbia is a radical threat to scholarly excellence and to America’s leadership in research. Universities and their leaders should speak up and litigate forcefully to protect their rights."
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John Graves @johngraves.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
With the Agency for Healthcare [sic] Research and Quality on the chopping block, I thought it might be useful to highlight a few ways in my own research on efficiency and access in the U.S. health care system has benefited from AHRQ data, collaboration and funding.
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
There are days in life that shake you. I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University & academic career... 1/🧵
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Jason Shepherd @jasonsynaptic.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
Our university’s NIH CTSA (Clinical and Translational Science Award) was just cancelled for having some keywords that just mean it will serve ALL people in Utah. This funds research that moves discovery science into clinical therapies. This is literally the mandate of the NIH! 😰 🧪
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Elizabeth N. Saunders @profsaunders.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
FWIW, the government's disproportionate attack on this kind of research and training of young scientists motivated us to write this letter, which again is NOT an official university statement, just how we 5 professors at Columbia imagine we would respond. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/guest-post...
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GUEST POST: We Are Professors at Columbia. Here is How We Would Respond.
Five Columbia University political scientists offer their unofficial response to the Trump administration's demands on their university.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
More on the cuts to health research at Columbia 👇🚨
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Trump Cuts Imperil Cancer, Diabetes and Pediatric Research at Columbia
Dozens of medical and scientific studies are ending or at risk of ending, leaving researchers scrambling to find alternative funding.
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AcademyHealth @academyhealth.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Despite the significant challenges facing AHRQ and evidence-based research, patients, providers, universities, and more all agree that funding AHRQ is critical for advancing high-value care and improving health care for vulnerable populations. Read more: academyhealth.org/blog/2025-03...
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
Interested in what NIH grants have been cancelled to date? You can see award numbers, institutions and titles here. Not sure how often this list is being updated but seems to reflect only those that have received "official" notices from NIH (some of us haven't yet) taggs.hhs.gov/Content/Data...
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
The ~$400m in federal funding cuts at Columbia are nearly all research grants at the medical campus supporting important studies to improve the health of Americans and people around the world. This is just one of over 200. Thanks @statnews.com for telling the stories of the research we will lose.
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NIH cancels funding for landmark diabetes study at a time of focus on chronic disease
The Trump administration has canceled funding for an ongoing 30-year, nationwide study tracking patients with prediabetes and diabetes, researchers said.
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Dr. Diana Li @dianateuthis.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Add R25s to that list. Our NIH funding got straight up cancelled today for the two R25s that my team runs at Columbia for post-bacs and high-school students. I fear for our young scholars, who love learning about the brain and now are losing opportunities to be tomorrow's neuroscientists. 🧪
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Lauren Kriger Groner @laurengroner.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Unfortunately, my NIH grant (Columbia P50 center grant subcontract) was one of the awards terminated. A stop work order has been issued. We’re 8 months into the project— a community engaged study to ⬆️ 🫁 ca & CVD screening in nyc. I know many others affected as well. Hoping for reversal/resolution 😕
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
The NIH "terminations" included the Maternal Health Center for Excellence at Columbia, one of 10 new collaborative research centers founded as part of a NIH initiative to accelerate research to solve the US maternal health crisis. www.obgyn.columbia.edu/news/columbi...
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.
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Hundreds of research grants at Columbia canceled following Trump edict, administrator says
The National Institutes of Health is terminating 232 grants for scientific research at Columbia University Irving Medical Center, according to an email an administrator sent to faculty.
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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The CDC pause access to data & data collection for a uniquely vital survey on maternal & infant health — they say it will be back up soon But, that has not entirely alleviated concerns from researchers 🧪🔬🩺 #medsky www.statnews.com/2025/03/03/c...
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Interrupted access to unique maternal health database rattles researchers
Researchers lose access to crucial CDC data on maternal and infant health while they're made compliant with Trump executive orders
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Jon Huang @jonhuang.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
I have confirmation from my (HI) State DOH that PRAMS is paused as of last Thurs. All new data collected after Jan 31 are rejected. Which epis in other states, esp those without large MCH research presence, are interested in standing up alternatives? Also an opportunity to educate on data! 📩 me!
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
For 38 years, PRAMS has collected critical data on maternal-child health with the goal to reduce infant morbidity and mortality. CDC has officially halted the 2024 PRAMS data collection for the participating 46 states and the future is uncertain.
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Surveillance project of CDC and health departments used to improve maternal and infant health.
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
So it bears repeating that Medicaid's most important function is protecting people from large medical cost burdens. Medicaid is very good at this. One example - the high cost of having a baby. New study underscores that Medicaid does a much better job than commercial coverage.
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Jamie Daw @jamiedaw.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
It took months, but Adam finally broke me. I'm here now!
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