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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD

@jnwadiuko.bsky.social
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Nigerian, physician, health economist, glucophile. AP Hospital Medicine @Penn. Immigration, global health, prisons

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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 5h
Some of these Digger critics are waaaaaaay too sensitive
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.
wsj.com
Exclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health Office
The cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026.
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Couldn't resist. Here's my list:
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Incredible work by @kolyncheang.bsky.social and @stjbs.bsky.social showing how ICE has left millions to unpaid US healthcare providers and delayed necessary specialty care because of dangerous rhetoric.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
For many years, ICE didn't have its own medical claims processing for detainees, running 3rd party medical bills through the VA's system. Last year, right-wing influencers convinced the Trump admin to abruptly cancel this contract. With no replacement, ICE specialized medical care has gone unpaid.
ICE has not paid any of its providers for detainees’ care since Oct. 3, 2025, according to agency regulatory filings and the ICE website. In an internal directive issued shortly after, obtained by the Chronicle and not previously reported, ICE declared “emergency operations,” sharply limiting offsite medical care and access to medication.

Hospitals and ambulance services told the Chronicle they are owed millions of dollars, while many detainees have had appointments for lifesaving medical care delayed or canceled. Medical providers say they have continued to provide care out of moral obligation, although some observers worry that fear of nonpayment could deter them from offering services to detainees.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Josh Shapiro: I fell down a well! Josh Shapiro: Help, I’m still down here Team Shapiro: We need your help to find Josh Josh Shapiro: Pennsylvania deserves an above-ground governor Shapiro HQ: Barack has promised to help get him out of there, will you?
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
How does health care utilization vary among Black people with different legal statuses? LDI expert @jnwadiuko.bsky.social found that Black immigrants—especially those who are undocumented—have higher rates of uninsurance and are less likely to use certain types of care. bit.ly/4fRuxgR
ldi.upenn.edu
Black Immigrants Face Greater Barriers to Health Care
LDI’s Joseph Nwadiuko finds that Black immigrants, especially those who are undocumented, face higher rates of uninsurance and lower health care use.
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 31/07/2026
When ICE tells you they’re targeting the worst of the worst, this is what they mean. ICE arrested Ameaka at BWI airport, and immediately moved her out of state to a GEO facility in Louisiana. www.thebanner.com/community/lo...
Screenshot of two paragraphs of article text reading: "Ameaka began studying for a master's degree in public health in 2023 as a Fulbright scholar, according to her LinkedIn page. She's affiliated with the university's environmental health and engineering department and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Equity, according to her faculty page on the university's website. She's also the founder of a peer education organization, BodyTalk, which aims to educate young women and girls about self-esteem, health and body positivity."
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
What an incredible, shocking article.
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yoooooo what
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Lilia Cervantes @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
📜Proud to share our study in @jamainternalmed.com on moral injury among physicians caring for immigrant patients ⭐️Physicians described moral injury and worsening patient health. Advocacy helped restore agency. @marlenemartinmd.bsky.social @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
jamanetwork.com
Moral Injury Among Physicians Caring for Immigrant Patients Amid Anti-Immigrant Policies
This qualitative study explores the perspectives of primary care physicians regarding their own well-being and the health and well-being of their immigrant patients after anti-immigrant policy changes...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
CABO VERDE CABO VERDE CABO VERDE
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
What a game
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States Newsroom @statesnewsroom.com · 17/07/2026
The growing number of deaths in Nevada prisons prompted scrutiny from state lawmakers, who were told by corrections officials Tuesday that 166 people have died in custody since 2024. via @nevadacurrent.com
newsfromthestates.com
NV prison system mortality report ‘sounds like a lot of unexplained deaths,’ legislator says
The growing number of deaths in Nevada prisons prompted scrutiny from state lawmakers, who were told by corrections officials Tuesday that 166 people have died in custody since 2024.There were at…
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Batalla de las Malvinas looking more and more likely
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Thor Benson @thorbenson.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Has this been done
Marco Rubio lunging for water with the words "pausa de hidratación" over the picture
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Oh now you got cards to give? Yeah that's racist
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Well if you can't beat them join them www.yahoo.com/sports/nba/b...
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The right goal post making a strong case for golden glove right now
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
DRC playing with the hunger of a team wanting a 1-0 Belgium blowout
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Why does it feel like 1922 and 1852 all at once
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Zach Everson @zacheverson.com · 30/06/2026
And that’s why you pray
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Camerado @dogsinautumn.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
First post that will be read correctly by both the sports and politics halves of this site no matter what
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CJ Fogler @cjzero.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Rebecca: "Chaps, Alexi left us" Zlatan: "Who? Rebecca: "Alexi will be back, Alexi will be back with us very soon" Thierry: "Your plan worked, Rebecca" Rebecca: "Don't you bring me into this, no chance" Zlatan: "America, you're welcome" lmaooooooooooooooooo
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Out now at Medical Care: "In the Shadows Health Utilization Outcomes Among Black Undocumented Immigrants" journals.lww.com/lww-medicalc... Led by @jnwadiuko.bsky.social , this study examines healthcare access & outcomes at the nexus of legal status among Black middle-aged & older adults
journals.lww.com
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Kevin Griffith @assumenormality.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Jay Battacharya speaking now at #ASHEcon2026 🧵 First addresses plight of early career researchers and growing age at first R01 grant award Nowadays average is 44-45 years? Need to find a way to lower than and support early career scholars
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Ko Lyn Cheang @kolyncheang.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Deaths in ICE detention have surged. @sfchronicle.com is tracking them here. The database is the foundation of a Chronicle investigation by @stjbs.bsky.social and myself about medical delays, missed and misdiagnoses and other failures that drove record deaths. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
sfchronicle.com
Deaths in ICE custody have surged. The Chronicle is tracking them
Detainee deaths in ICE custody have surged since 2025. The Chronicle is tracking them all here.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 08/06/2026
Launch day! ⚽ Introducing Relevant Football w/ @adamjst.bsky.social. We built Relevant Football to turn 2026 FIFA World Cup fandom into a chance to learn about all 48 competing nations, from GDP and demographics to energy and environment. austinkocher.substack.com/p/introducin...
austinkocher.substack.com
Introducing Relevant Football: Using the FIFA World Cup to Learn About the World
Launch day! ⚽ We built Relevant Football to turn 2026 FIFA World Cup fandom into a chance to learn about all 48 competing nations, from GDP and demographics to energy and environment.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 08/06/2026
ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze dies at Winn. Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-report...
austinkocher.substack.com
ICE Reports 19th Death of 2026: Georgian National Mamuka Artmeladze Dies at Winn Correctional
Mamuka was not a public safety threat, may not have broken a single law, couldn't be deported, and shouldn't have been arrested. ICE forced taxpayers to pay $18,000 detaining him anyway.
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
What a game. Congrats to the spurs
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Lomi Kriel @lomikriel.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Doctors say woman in El Paso ICE detention urgently requires surgery that is being denied. “It is my medical opinion that Ms. Pedro Francisco will suffer irreparable harm if this treatment is not provided promptly." OB-GYNs & an emergency physician agreed. www.texastribune.org/2026/05/20/e...
texastribune.org
Woman detained by ICE wrongfully denied surgery, doctors say
Andrea Pedro Francisco was scheduled to have surgery to remove an ovarian cyst in February but was detained by ICE, which has repeatedly denied her surgery. Nine doctors who reviewed her case said she...
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
OKC Spurs is delivering as promised
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Patrick Egan @pegan.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Really important work here, especially in light of ICE/fed gov't owning two warehouse spaces it still wants to convert to detention facilities for people living here without documentation.
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
1/ Today we @oppforhealthlab.bsky.social are releasing our report: "Stuckness in America." #Stuckness is a #feeling + material #reality that reinforce one another in a self-perpetuating #trap. 1 our of every 5 Americans are #stuck. opportunityforhealth.org/project/stuc...
opportunityforhealth.org
Stuckness in America – Opportunity for Health
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PennLDI @pennldi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
🎉Congratulations to LDI Exec Director @rachelwerner.bsky.social, and LDI Fellows @jnwadiuko.bsky.social and Eric T. Roberts! They have received top awards from the Society of General Internal Medicine (@societygim.bsky.social)! Read more about the awards & their work here: bit.ly/4nliD0M
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Three Penn LDI Senior Fellow Win 2026 SGIM Awards
Three Senior Fellows of the University of Pennsylvania Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics (LDI) — Rachel M. Werner, MD, PhD; Eric T. Roberts, PhD; and Joseph Nwadiuko, MD…
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A little joy for today. He's been through far too much on his own
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
"The incident was one of at least 780 in which staff members at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities used physical force or chemical agents to control immigrant detainees during the first year of the Trump administration." Gift link: wapo.st/4tdgBRA
wapo.st
Internal ICE records reveal widespread use of force in detention centers
The reports detail how guards have increasingly used chemical agents and physical tactics on detainees, including groups demanding adequate water, food and medical care.
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 04/05/2026
Today, the Washington Post published an investigation into the use of force in ICE detention centers, based on a trove of leaked ICE records. They also released much of the data behind their story (more outlets need to do this). 🧵
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
wth www.cbsnews.com/pittsburgh/n...
cbsnews.com
Is suboxone the answer? The $36M addiction treatment of choice in Pennsylvania prisons is raising questions.
Pennsylvania prisons now give suboxone to thousands of inmates, with thousands more on the waiting list.
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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:
A graph from Our World In Data showing a precipitous drop in child mortality starting in the late 1800s going from an average of 48% to global rate of 27% in 1950 to the 2020 infant mortality rate of 4%, with some countries having a rate as low as 0.3%
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
"Nigeria, now more than ever, needs sustained health financing that scales to address the country’s health challenges and improve health outcomes, because this time round, no one is coming to our rescue."
articles.nigeriahealthwatch.com
As Things Fall Apart with ODA, Can Nigeria Finally Fund Its Own Health System? - Nigeria Health Watch
Yasir Jamal Bakare and Vivianne Ihekweazu (Lead writers) The preliminary figures from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) report landed...
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 24/04/2026
Under Biden, 264 mothers were detained and 30% were deported. Under Trump, that's jumped to 800 mothers detained and 60% deported.
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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Happy this paper at Journal of Urban Affairs is finally out :) Planey AM, Taylor NL, Kumar AD, Cross RI, Neally S, Lewis JA, Luben TJ, Martin CL. "Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas"
tandfonline.com
Linkages between historical redlining and contemporary indicators of structural racism and discrimination across 5 North Carolina metropolitan areas
Historical manifestations of structural racism and discrimination (SRD; e.g. 1930s redlining) have been linked to current adverse health outcomes, yet less is known about linkages to present-day ne...
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.
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ACLU @aclu.org · 16/04/2026
BREAKING: The House of Representatives passed a bill that will provide a 3-year period of protection and work authorization to Haitians, after the Trump administration illegally terminated Temporary Protected Status for thousands of our loved ones and neighbors who fled Haiti.
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
If The Capture keeps at this, it might just break into my top three favorite shows ever
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Joseph Nwadiuko MD PHD @jnwadiuko.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This is the only correct bad take
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