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Lisa Force, MD, MPH

@lisaforce.bsky.social
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Pediatric oncologist & researcher | Interested in #globaloncology #cancerepi #cancerdisparities | Aspiring to be a force for good | Believe in #healthequity #culturalhumility | She/her | Views my own

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever
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@doublewhammied @doublewhammied.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Helpful hashtags for #cancer peeps! #CanSky #OncSky #MedSky #HemeSky
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WHO @who.int · 15/02/2025
It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day. Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include: 🔹Leukaemia 🔹brain tumours 🔹lymphomas 🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour) Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
Warning signs of childhood cancer
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WHO @who.int · 11/02/2025
💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering: 📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries 📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries. Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives 👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
Cure rate of children with cancer:

More than 80% in high-income countries
Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it "Distance" is a great way to understand this notion Thanks, Seye www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity who.foundation/blogs-post/h...
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How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability" Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021” #SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity academic.oup.com/epirev/artic...
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Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021
Abstract. Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic stu
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Ronnie Cohen @ronnielcohen.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
A (mostly) quiet hero.
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How Peter Buxtun Exposed the Notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Scandal
For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study – but no one would listen.
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Rachel Hall-Clifford, PhD, MPH, MSc @rahallclifford.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking
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Jessica Zimmerman, MD, MS @joz-md.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
#ASHKudos to Rachel Rau, Sumit Gupta, the whole AALL1731 study committee, all of our COG sites, and most importantly, our patients and families who made these results possible. So exciting to officially see these results on the big stage at #ASH24 (and presented by a great mentor too!)
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Krishna Komanduri @drkomanduri.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine. Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
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American Society of Hematology @ash.hematology.org · 08/12/2024
#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍 #ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 08/12/2024
Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status. Our system quite literally kills people.
Slide on financial toxicity of cancer care
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Lisa Force, MD, MPH @lisaforce.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner
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Lisa Force, MD, MPH @lisaforce.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎
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Stacey Marjerrison, MD @staceymarj.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity @c17council.bsky.social
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Association Between Socioeconomic Factors and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment‐ and Survival‐Related Outcomes in Canada
Background and Aims Studies examing the impact of socioeconomic factors on outcomes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have yielded inconsistent findings. We aimed to determine whether ...
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Lisa Force, MD, MPH @lisaforce.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂 go.bsky.app/R6cteE1
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I created a starter pack for global health organizations Let me know who else I can add! go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV
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Richard Van Noorden @richvn.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
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@doublewhammied @doublewhammied.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Ovarian Odyssey
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her family that turned out to be caused by a genetic variat...
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky
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Lucia Ruggiero @lruggiero.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Global Assessment of Palliative Care Need: Serious Health-Related Suffering Measurement Methodology www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
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Global Assessment of Palliative Care Need: Serious Health-Related Suffering Measurement Methodology
Inequities and gaps in palliative care access are a serious impediment to health systems especially in low- and middle-income countries and the accurate measurement of need across health conditions is...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks:
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public. 101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
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Fumiko Ladd Chino, MD FASCO @fumikochino.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Surveyed surviving caregivers had worse experiences including lower ratings for timely care & symptom management when their loved one died in hospices owned by private equity firms. 🏥💸⚕️More evidence that, when you run healthcare like a business, people suffer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Caregiver-Reported Quality in Hospices Owned by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies
This study compares differences in caregiver-reported hospice quality across categories of ownership, including for-profit private equity firm (PEF)/publicly traded company (PTC)–owned and non-PEF/PTC...
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Stacey Tinianov, MPH @coffeemommy.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
This whole thread/blog post by @charlesgaba.com. People often get laser focused on what affects them. So, if nothing else, we advocates need to work on educating the general public on how the ACA protections benefit THEM. #NoLifetimeCaps #WeAreAllPreexistingConditions #publichealth #cancer #oncsky
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Mike Kaspari @mikekaspari.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Welcome all. Life in academia is particularly hard right now. Toward a modest improvement, consider sending Kudos Emails. Reach out to a stranger and say you liked their paper. This small mitzvah can make a world of difference. I’ve seen it happen. michaelkaspari.org/2016/05/23/o...
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On the salutary effect of the Kudos Email
If you like someone’s work, don’t just cite them, write them!
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Rhea Liang @liangrhea.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Hello new arrivals! There's no algorithm here, no ads, and a culture of inclusion. If you interact, people with interact back. Three things you can do straightaway to bloot like a pro- 1. Reconstruct networks 2. Starter packs 3. Alt text
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a woman with a robotic eye painted on her face says fun will now commence
Alt: Seven of Nine from Star Trek says 'fun will now commence'
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Trauma Llama 🦙 @traumasoapboxes.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
We are guests in our patients lives
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Lisa Force, MD, MPH @lisaforce.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂 go.bsky.app/R6cteE1
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 15/11/2024
Much of life is lived in the overlap
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Amanda Litman @amandalitman.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
If you're newly thinking about running for office, Run for Something has a great guide to all the different local offices you could consider, including responsibilities, salaries/hours, and requirements to run. localofficeguide.net
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HOME | Local Office Guide
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Thread for those new to BlueSky. First of all, welcome. It feels like a safer space, doesn’t it? But also perhaps a bit disorienting initially? Here’s some tips for getting your bearings.
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Mitchell Epner @mitchellepner.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
For new BlueSky users, please consider flipping the toggle to require Alt Text on all photos that you post. I did it when I started here and it did not take long to get used to it. It helps to make this community more inclusive.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
To all the global health nerds joining @bsky.app, here are some welcome gifts 🎁 A compilation of over 400 amazing books on global health! communities.springernature.com/posts/if-you...
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If you had to read one book on global health...
If there is 1 book that you would like all global health students to read, it would be.....? Here is an impressive list of over 400 books generated by this question on Twitter!
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