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Paul Christine

@pauljchristine.bsky.social
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Internist, addiction doc, epi researcher at University of Colorado and Denver Health

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Larry Levitt @larrylevitt.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Early results show people losing coverage due to early implementation of a Medicaid work requirement in Nebraska, with signs that they're being caught up in administrative barriers. www.kff.org/medicaid/ear...
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Early Medicaid Work Requirement Insights From Nebraska | KFF
This brief describes the verification process for Medicaid work requirements in Nebraska and examines early data on outcomes for individuals subject to work requirements.
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Alexander Tsai, MD @drdrtsai.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"the new policy creates a catch-22: investigators must demonstrate independence to successfully compete for larger trial funding, while the K award can no longer support the career development needed to demonstrate it" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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On Becoming a Gold Standard Scientist
This Viewpoint discusses the recent National Institutes of Health announcement that its Career Development (K) awards cannot be used to conduct clinical trials, feasibility studies, or ancillary studi...
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Emily Dore @emilydore.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Our new article shows that states increased participation in WIC by offering benefits remotely. Given WIC's health benefits but low participation rates, this is one way states might improve maternal and child health. www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/... @ritahamad.bsky.social @pamherd.bsky.social
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Caitlin Patler @caitlinpatler.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Chloe East (CU Boulder Econ) & I are hiring a postdoc to work on causal research on impacts of imm policy on immigrant children & families + rapid response descriptive work. Please share & encourage qualified candidates to apply! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05505
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PostDoctoral Scholar Employee - Goldman School of Public Policy
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Paul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Check out our piece in @theconversation.com discussing our recent evaluation of a syringe distribution ban in Colorado TLDR: the syringe distribution ban decreased other important health services, including naloxone distribution theconversation.com/syringe-litt...
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Syringe litter did not increase after a needle exchange ban was overturned in Pueblo, Colorado, but health services suffered
Evidence suggests that people who receive syringes from a needle exchange are less likely to dispose of them improperly.
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Katie O'Connor @koconnorreports.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
With massive cuts to Medicaid on the horizon due to the work requirements included in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, a new study underscores the potentially life-and-death urgency of helping people with opioid use disorder retain their coverage. Read my latest: psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/...
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Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
COOL PAPER INCOMING! Just accepted by Clinical Infectious Diseases, by fearless leader @pauljchristine.bsky.social, myself, @ayeshaappamd.bsky.social, and Sim Kimmel (c'mon get on Bluesky!). Not sure if I have to wait until its actually released before I can talk about it though. 😅
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Dheepa Sundaram, PhD (she/her) @themodsisyphus.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
CBP didn’t give her or anyone any water; she asked 3 times accg to other reports. CBP killed a 7yr old. “8 hours after the girl & her father were taken into custody, she began having seizures & her body temperature was measured at 105.7 degrees by emergency medical technicians. shorturl.at/d2OTJ
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7-Year-Old Migrant Girl Dies Of Dehydration And Shock In U.S. Border Patrol Custody
The girl's death underscores the crisis precipitated by large groups of families seeking asylum where there are inadequate facilities to detain them.
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Ben Howell @howellben.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Read the full manuscript here - jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Travel Time to Methadone Treatment Via Personal Vehicle vs Public Transit
This cross-sectional study investigates the travel time via personal vehicle vs public transit to methadone treatment alongside census block demographics in Connecticut.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/01/2026
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking. Warning: video is hard to watch
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
"He would remind you that caring for others is hard work, and we must do whatever it takes to get through the long shifts."
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
The request includes a declaration from a witness who filmed today's shooting of Pretti. Read their words: "I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me.
2. On Saturday, January 24, 2026, at about 8:50 am, I was getting ready to go to work
when I heard whistles outside. I knew the whistles meant that ICE agents were in
the area, so I decided to check it out on my way to work. I've been involved in observing in my community because it is so important to document what ICE is
doing to my neighbors. Connecting to your local community and knowing who your
neighbors are is something I profoundly value.
3. I drove to Nicollet Ave. and 26 where I could hear the whistles coming from. I
turned south onto Nicollet. There were already several ICE agents there and they'd
set up a sort of vehicle convoy on Nicollet and 28. There were also about 15
observers there, recording and observing ICE.
4. I saw ICE agents surrounding cars and punching car windows. I also saw them
stopping vehicles further down Nicollet, so I backed up because I didn't feel safe continuing on.
5. I noticed a man sort of acting to help traffic move more smoothly. He helped me
find a place to park. I got out with my whistle and my camera. I went over to him
and said something like, "I'm going to film and use my whistle."
6. It seemed like most ICE activity was happening a little farther down the street from
us, near 27th. Someone was being thrown to the ground.7. I started recording. There was an agent by a car across the street. Two observers
were a few feet away from the agent, blowing their whistles. One was wearing a
backpack.
8. I and the man who was observing and helping direct traffic were standing in the
street. There was a phone in the man's hand recording a video.
9. An agent approached and asked us to back up, so I moved slowly back onto the
sidewalk.
10. The man stayed in the street, filming as the other observers I mentioned earlier were
being forced backward by another ICE agent threatening them with pepper spray.
The man went closer to support them as they got threatened, just with his camera
out. I didn't see him reach for or hold a gun.
11. Then the ICE agent shoved one of the other observers to the ground. Then he started
pepper spraying all three of them directly in the face and all over. The man with the
phone put his hands above his head and the agent sprayed him again and pushed
him.
12. Then the man tried to help up the woman the ICE agent had shoved to the ground.
The ICE agents just kept spraying. More agents came over and grabbed the man
who was still trying to help the woman get up. All three of the observers looked to
have been badly affected by the pepper spray. I could feel the pepper spray in my
eyes.13. The agents pulled the man on the ground. I didn't see him touch any of them—he
wasn't even turned toward them. It didn't look like he was trying to resist, just trying
to help the woman up. I didn't see him with a gun. They threw him to the ground.
Four or five agents had him on the ground and they just started shooting him. They
shot him so many times.
14.1 don't know why they shot him. He was only helping. I was five feet from him and
they just shot him.
15. The video I recorded of what happened accurately depicts the events leading up to
the agents shooting him and several minutes afterwards. The video is attached as
Exhibit 1.
16. I have read the statement from DHS about what happened and it is wrong. The man
did not approach the agents with a gun. He approached them with a camera. He was
just trying to help a woman get up and they took him to the ground.
17. I feel afraid. Only hours have passed since they shot a man right in front me and I
don't feel like I can go home because I heard agents were looking for me. I don't
know what the agents will do when they find me. I do know that they're not telling
the truth about what happened. I've heard that other witnesses might have been
arrested and taken to the Whipple Building.
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now
Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA
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Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."
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UM Population Studies Center @um-psc.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
@joelabriola.bsky.social has shown that the mortgage interest deduction has contributed to growth of the White-Black wealth gap in recent decades. LaBriola presents findings next week in the @umichstonecid.bsky.social speaker series! inequality.umich.edu/speaker-seri...
Stone Center for Inequality Dynamics speaker series: Joe LaBriola presents "The Tax Treatment of Housing as a Source of Racial Inequality" on Wed., 1/14/26 at ISR Thomspson 6050, from noon to 1:30
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Kinna Thakarar @kinnathakarar.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Research job opportunities in Portland, Maine, including senior director of clinical research: mhir.org/careers-2/jo...
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Scott Fabricant MD PhD @safabric.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
OPEN SPOT ALERT! There is an ID fellowship spot available at Boston Medical Center. Incredible team, sane workload (including consult caps and non-teaching service). Highly recommended if you're interested in TB/global health, HIV, SUD, or AMR/stewardship. Message me if interested! #IDsky #MedSky
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
🔥 Simultaneous publication in multiple @jama.com journals by Prof @cervantes-lily1.bsky.social of her RCT and the patient experience analysis This is mic-drop science jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Community Health Worker Support for Hispanic and Latino Individuals Receiving Hemodialysis
This randomized clinical trial evaluates if community health worker support reduces interdialytic weight gain among Hispanic and Latino individuals receiving hemodialysis.
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Caty Simon @marginalutilite.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
1/2 As a methadone patient, I spend accumulated months of my life taking PROMS-patient reported outcome measures. Honored to be a co-author w/Jarratt Pytell + others of this writeup of a review of opioid use disorder treatment PROMS. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Systematic review of patient‐reported outcome measures for opioid use disorder recovery
Background and aims Recovery-focused measurement-based care of opioid use disorder (OUD) could inform clinical care by assessing patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs). We sought to identify and .....
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CAUSALab @causalab.org · 09/10/2025
You're invited! ✉️ 20th Kolokotrones Symposium: “Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?" Details in comments. In-person limited to Harvard ID holders due to space restrictions. Online attendance free & public. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/acetaminop...
20th Kolokotrones Symposium. Acetaminophen During Pregnancy and Autism: What Does Causal Inference Take?
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Joan Alker @joanalker1.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
As states around the country are mandated by HR1 to rush to implement Medicaid work requirements by HR 1 the risk for waste of taxpayer $$ to corporate vendors is huge. Federal watchdog report on Georgia's Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs apnews.com/article/geor...
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Federal watchdog report on Georgia's Medicaid program raises concerns about administrative costs
A government watchdog has raised concerns about high administrative costs in Georgia's Medicaid program. The U.S.
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Robin Rudowitz @robinr.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Still time to sign for a @kff.org Wonkshop about #Medicaid and work requirements: www.kff.org/event/how-wi...
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How Will States Implement Medicaid Work Requirements? | KFF
Four experts, including two state Medicaid directors, will join Health Wonk Shop series moderator Larry Levitt in an hour-long discussion of how states will go about implementing the new Medicaid work...
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Michael L. Barnett @mlbarnett.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New paper w/ Brian McGarry, Ashvin Gandhi, and Drew Wilcock in @jamainternalmed.com! Hospitals are complaining across the US that patients are "stuck" waiting for rehab beds at nursing homes when they are medically stable and ready for discharge. What is going on?? jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Question Has hospital length of stay increased more for Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries than for traditional Medicare beneficiaries
since the COVID-19 pandemic?Findings In this cohort study involving more than 89 million
hospitalizations from 2017 to the third quarter of 2023, Medicare
Advantage beneficiaries experienced disproportionately greater
increases in extended hospital stays, especially among those
discharged to skilled nursing facilities.Meaning These findings suggest that the Medicare Advantage
plan design and practices may contribute to hospital discharge
delays, with implications for patient outcomes and hospital
capacity as enrollment continues to rise.
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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Ben Sommers and I have a new piece up at @jamahealthforum.com on how to think about generalizing lessons from unwinding to looming new Medicaid red tape requirements. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... We appreciate support from the @commonwealthfund.org for this work!
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karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...
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Donate to Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza, organized by Ibrahim Alwahidi
Abdallah never imagined reaching this point and asking for he… Ibrahim Alwahidi needs your support for Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza
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Paul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Overdose rates in rural Eastern Colorado are higher than in many urban areas. I talked to Rocky Mountain @pbs.org about why. Shoutout to Chris Chavez and his friends for their grassroots efforts to help. www.rmpbs.org/blogs/health... @cumedicalschool.bsky.social @cuinternalmed.bsky.social
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Grassroots recovery group brings hope to Las Animas | Rocky Mountain PBS
A Las Animas resident is now filling the gap he once fell through by starting a grassroots recovery group in a place where resources are limited.
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karim @sariahmed.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
New work laying foundations on somatic therapy for PTSD (and chronic pain?) in a primary care context. Really enjoyed conducting these interviews. Among our patients and staff, a body-first orientation to trauma resonates strongly. #MedSky #PsychSky pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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The Acceptability of Somatic Therapy for PTSD Among Patients at an Urban Safety Net Primary Care Clinic
Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) has higher prevalence in safety net settings, which also face structural barriers to the use of gold-standard, exposure-focused treatments. Somatic therapies (STs)...
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Paul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Public health efforts are rightly focused on reducing opioid overdose deaths. We know relatively little about severe morbidity among overdose survivors. Our new paper in @journalgim.bsky.social provides the first national estimates of overdose-related hypoxic-ischemic brain injury rdcu.be/ezNUN
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National Estimates of Opioid Overdose Hospitalizations Resulting in Hypoxic-ischemic Brain Injury
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Our latest study @jamahealthforum.com shows the harms of work requirements for safety net programs. Women who were subject to harsher requirements and who received less cash assistance from TANF were less likely to breastfeed. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @donmoyn.bsky.social @hsph.harvard.edu 1/
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Chloe N East (she/her) @chloeneast.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Who is Arrested by ICE under Trump 2.0? A 🧵 New from me & @elizabethacox.bsky.social! Piece: immresearch.org/publications... 1. ICE arrests spike in Jan & May 2025; when arrests increase, percent of those arrested who are convicted of a crime falls Majority arrested have no criminal conviction
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Bradley Stein @bradleydstein.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
1/ Excited to share recent paper, "Examining the Impact of Eliminating the X Waiver on Buprenorphine Dispensation in 63 Counties in Pennsylvania," in @sajamersa.bsky.social led by @beccabilden.bsky.social
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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 02/11/2024
How does immigration affect US workers? This piece in @theatlantic.bsky.social was crafted through months of consultation with some of the top researchers in the field and represents an accessible summary of where the frontier is now. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Truth About Immigration and the American Worker
In many domains, the conventional wisdom among progressives is mistaken, oversimplified, or based on wishful thinking. The economics of immigration is not one of them.
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Sarah Burgard @burgards.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Please consider applying and joining us @UM_PSC for incredible demography and decent snacks!
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Paul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 24/09/2024
🚨New Job Alert🚨 Come work us at the University of Colorado! Jarratt Pytell, Kate LeMasters and I are hiring a health research professional to work on a variety of projects at the nexus of substance use and criminal-legal involvement. Contact us with questions! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Addiction and Criminal-Legal Health Research Professional (Entry – Senior Level)
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Atheendar Venkataramani @atheendar.bsky.social · 04/09/2024
🚨🚨We (@pennmehp.bsky.social) are hiring up to two new faculty members (Assistant Professors) in #HealthPolicy! We are specifically looking for researchers interested in #populationhealth (highlighted below) -- a key growth area for us. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/152931
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · 08/07/2024
Interested in the latest quasi-experimental difference-in-differences policy evaluation methods but not sure where to start? Our new tutorial in Epidemiology is out now with detailed info for beginners! journals.lww.com/epidem/abstr... #episky #econsky @justinwhite.bsky.social @epiellie.bsky.social
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Lauren Hersch Nicholas @lhnicholas.bsky.social · 15/11/2023
So many great opportunities to work with us at the University of Colorado School of Medicine! : bioethics asst prof: cu.taleo.net/careersectio... geriatrics & economics asst prof: cu.taleo.net/careersectio... DM me w/ ?s and share w mentees please
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Paul Christine @pauljchristine.bsky.social · 20/10/2023
We have new work out today at JAMA Health Forum exploring if removal of Medicaid prior auths for buprenorphine changed buprenorphine prescriptions Hypothesis: PAs are a barrier to care and removal will result in more prescriptions Results: There was minimal change after PA removal ja.ma/45GSLSD
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Removal of Prior Authorization for Buprenorphine Treatment for Opioid Use Disorder
Explore the latest in national and global health policy, including health care pricing, delivery, access, quality, safety, equity, and reform.
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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 27/09/2023
Tons!! The Center for Public Health Law Research at Temple University are the gurus, and they have a huge amount of free resources (see link card). There's also fantastic material available from ChangeLab Solutions, Inc. www.changelabsolutio... #LegalEpi
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LEGAL EPIDEMIOLOGY TRAINING AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES | Public Health Law Research
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