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The Division of Child Health Research and Policy @cherpdpm.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

#GLP-1 #medications are changing #obesity and #diabetes #care, but important questions remain. Experts highlight the need for robust real-world evidence to guide #clinical, regulatory, and coverage decisions. #medicaldecisionmaking #healthcare @wrightcensored.bsky.social Read Here: buff.ly/ct8G8ub

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

We would like to recruit a stellar junior faculty member in the Division of Child Health Research and Policy @deptpopmed.bsky.social at Harvard. Please circulate this announcement widely! www.populationmedicine.org/divisions-ce...

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Faculty Positions | HPHCI: Department of Population Medicine

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Formerly Richard Mayhew @dmaanderson.bsky.social · 31/08/2025

I am chairing the search for two (2) Tenure Track positions at the Department of Health Services, Policy and Management at @uscarnoldschool.bsky.social We are looking to move relatively fast so please get your applications in quickly #HealthPolicy #AcademicSky uscjobs.sc.edu/postings/194...

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Assistant/Associate Professor (2 Vacancies)

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The Division of Child Health Research and Policy @cherpdpm.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

#Foodinsecurity means higher #costs for young people with #diabetes. Consistent #healthcoverage was beneficial. Access to both #food and #healthinsurance matter. #HealthEquity #pediatrics #adolescent #health #food @wrightcensored.bsky.social Read More Here: buff.ly/32VsQCG

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Faculty, do you need a new headshot? If you're thinking about working with a professional photographer or makeup artist, you may find this conversation helpful, #AcademicSky #ScienceSky youtu.be/YgPZpwiraWg?...

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Photography, Hair, and Makeup: Visual Branding for Academics with Melissa McClure and Amanda Thorne

YouTube video by The Social Academic from Jennifer van Alstyne

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Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute @deptpopmed.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

A new study led by Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute’s @wrightcensored.bsky.social in collaboration with Truveta, shows a sharp increase in prescriptions for treating pediatric obesity after new guidelines were released in 2023 from the American Academy of Pediatrics. Study: tinyurl.com/4a2dfcdf

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Jennifer van Alstyne @jenvanalstyne.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Storytelling for Scientists and the Researchers’ Writing Podcast with my friend, Dr. Anna Clemens. It's all on the new episode of The Social Academic 🎙🌱 youtu.be/iz5zvazmVBQ?...

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Storytelling for Scientists and the Researchers' Writing Podcast with Dr. Anna Clemens

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Academic rigor meets righteous defense. From running backs to RCTs, Harvard decision scientists tackle what matters the most. #CrimsonStrong #CrimsonProud #SMDM25 #HarvardHealthPolicy

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Ankur Pandya @ankurfactorial.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Omg @wrightcensored.bsky.social did it she’s wearing her old poster at #SMDM25

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Thanks to Alex Kemper @nationwidekids.bsky.social about this reminder at the FAMNet Family Well-Being & Pediatric QoL Collaborative meeting: screening is a process, not a test #SMDM25

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Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @smdm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Join us for an in-depth webinar on Understanding the ACIP: Evidence, Policy, and Practice in U.S. Vaccine Recommendations. 🗓️ 30 June 🔗 Learn more: smdm.org/meeting/unde... #ACIP #PublicHealth #SMDM

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

This novel work was led by Dr. Tran T. Ðoan, now Assistant Professor at the Colorado School of Public Health. To meaningfully address the youth mental health crisis, healthcare systems must build their capacity to detect, diagnose, and treat depression early, ensuring better adolescent outcomes.

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Jack @jackbjoyce.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Did the NHS's Enhanced Service for weight management change the hearts & minds of GP staff? Our latest paper finds that the NES solidified existing views—and created a cognitive dissonance in more sceptical staff. 📄 Read it here: doi.org/10.1111/cob....

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

We are looking for a great colleague @mcgill.ca Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Department of Global and Public Health mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...

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Society for Medical Decision Making (SMDM) @smdm.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

#SMDM25 Mentees — we’re looking for you! Heading to the SMDM Annual Meeting in Ann Arbor? Students, postdocs, and early career scientists: don’t miss your chance to be matched with a mentor! ✅ Deadline to sign up: 30 April 📩 Check your inbox for an email from SMDM to register!

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Neil Sehgal @nsehgal.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

🚨 New preprint on AI persuasion and public health 🚨 A 3-min conversation with GPT-4o nudged HPV-vax-hesitant parents (who obv knew it was AI & consented!)—BUT reading standard public-health material still outperformed chatbots in impact and longevity. Details below 👇

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

HPM @emoryrollins.bsky.social is a great group and @stephenwpatrick.bsky.social is doing a fantastic job leading it! I'm really appreciative of the timely and constructive feedback on our work.

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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science (DBIDS) is seeking outstanding candidates for faculty positions in the field of biomedical informatics uab.peopleadmin.com/postings/25027 #bioinformatics #datascience

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School of Medicine - Open Rank - Open Tenure - Department of Biomedical Informatics and Data Science

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I would highly recommend you view the ICER webinar recording if you didn't watch it live. It was a balanced, extensive and efficient review of issues re: GLP-1 converage, including policy, R&D costs, clinical workflow, treatment effectiveness, and other relevant issues from various perspectives.

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Celeste Ng @pronounced-ing.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

Your periodic reminder that one way to think about privilege is: who's allowed to make mistakes?

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

ICYMI, ICER released a new white paper last week on affordable access to GLP-1s ICER will host a public webinar at 12:00pm ET on April 22, 2025 to discuss the potential market strategies and federal policy solutions outlined in the white paper. More: icer.org/news-insight... (1/3)

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Institute for Clinical and Economic Review Releases Obesity Medications White Paper Examining Strategies to Ensure Affordable Access - ICER

Paper analyzes policy reforms and market actions to achieve affordable and equitable access for GLP-1 obesity medications; developed as part of ICER’s Policy Leadership Forum with input from diverse s...

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Kenny Lin, MD, MPH @kennylinafp.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

AHRQ in Your Community: How National Investments Improve Local Health Care academyhealth.org/blog/2025-04... via @academyhealth.bsky.social

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AHRQ in Your Community: How National Investments Improve Local Health Care | AcademyHealth

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Hisham Zerriffi @hishamzerriffi.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

U.S. citizen interested in grad studies at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver (Canada)? Grad programs are re-opening applications of US programs for one week. With expedited decisions. U.S. Applicant Week: www.grad.ubc.ca/us-applicant... #AcademicChatter #Canada #GradSchool

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US Applicant Week

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AcademyHealth @academyhealth.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Amid reports that AHRQ is facing mass staff reductions, we’re actively engaged in efforts to understand these changes and advocate diligently on behalf of AHRQ and the broader health research enterprise. Use our toolkit to support the agency:

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Stand with AHRQ Toolkit | AcademyHealth

Use this toolkit to advocate for transparency and stakeholder engagement involving any proposed reforms to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

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Adrianna McIntyre @adrianna.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Noon today!

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Utibe R. Essien, MD, MPH @uressien.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

“…11% of people said they could not afford medication and care within the past 3 months, the highest level in the four years the survey has been conducted. Over 1/3 said if they were to need medical care, they would not be able to pay for it.” #Pharmacoequity www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/h...

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More Americans Cannot Afford Medical Care: Gallup Poll

A new survey found that 11 percent of Americans said they could not pay for medication and medical treatments.

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

🚨 BREAKING: I'm suing #RFKJr @ #HHS & #JayBhattacharya @ #NIH Canceling medical research grants threatens innovations benefiting ALL Americans, no matter your politics! 🇺🇸 Thanks to my lawyers @aclu.org @aclum.bsky.social @protectdemocracy.org & @cspi.bsky.social Long 🧵 on why I'm suing 👇 1/

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Deakin Health Economics @dhe-deakin.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Pursue a PhD in Health Economics at Deakin University – Scholarship Opportunities Available! We are seeking talented and motivated domestic PhD students to join our team! For more information and to express your interest, contact dhe@deakin.edu.au

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Altmetric @altmetric.com · 03/12/2024

BLUESKY MEGA-THREAD Altmetric is thrilled and also LITERALLY RELIEVED to officially announce: We are now tracking research attention as it happens on Bluesky! We have been picking up posts on the site since late Oct. Our team is on Bluesky all day answering questions. Let's get into it!

Blueksy Mentions are now in Altmetric.

It's been 84 years meme

#AcademicSky #HigherEd #MedSky #HMSky #Altmetrics #Medlibs #Metascience

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A/Professor Bonny Parkinson @bonnyeconomist.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Thank you ChatGPT. I shouldn’t give up my day job yet. #healtheconomics #HTA

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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Reminder that this seminar on FREE data for health economics research is this afternoon!

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Rep. Jamie Raskin @raskin.house.gov · 19/03/2025

Patients benefit from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, which helps to reduce medical errors, protect patient safety, and make care more affordable. I joined @blumenthal.senate.gov and @beyer.house.gov in sending a message to Trump and DOGE last week: hands off AHRQ!

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

🚨 ALL my remaining NIH grants were just terminated Without philanthropic gifts, this is the end of 1️⃣ my career (as I know it) 2️⃣ @lgbtqhealthexce.bsky.social 3️⃣ our LGBTQ health equity work Yet, reading about LGBTQ families in my kid's class reminded me: love knows no bounds 🌈 You with us?

Mother and daughter smiling while holding a book titled "Sam is my Sister"

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Brittany Charlton @britshmit.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

We've been tracking unlawful NIH grant terminations for 3 weeks. Spread the word👇! Fellow PIs: what can you do upon termination? ✅ Email PO + document questions ✅ Submit FOIA ✅ Advocate to your OCG/OSP for appeal + litigation ✅ Consider outside litigation ✅ Donate to state AGs + legal orgs 1/🧵

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Cancelled NIH grant information submission form

Please use this form to submit information identifying specific NIH grants that have been cancelled for any reason after January 20, 2025. Data from this form will be used to update the Rescinded NIH...

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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

The AcademyHealth Health Economics Interest Group is hosting a webinar, "Novel Datasets to Support Health Economics Research." We'll describe four great datasets currently provided by AHRQ at little/no cost to researchers. See you Monday at 2pm ET! Registration: wustl-hipaa.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

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Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing

Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems. Zoom ...

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Ryan D. Edwards @ryandedwards.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

I became alarmed when the link appeared dead, but thankfully (so far) it's because of a typo in the URL. Here's the functioning URL: www.ahrq.gov/funding/gran... Thanks for highlighting this. We need more media attention given the murmurs

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AHRQ Grantee Profiles

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Davene R. Wright, PhD @wrightcensored.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

🚨 A recent congressional letter to Sec. Kennedy expresses deep concerns about potential HHS reorg plans. Before I urge you to #SaveAHRQ, what does AHRQ even do? View these profiles to learn how AHRQ researchers understand and improve healthcare delivery: www.ahrq.gov/funding/gran... (1/3)

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Jennifer Polk @fromphdtolife.com · 20/03/2025

Last week I asked my email list (and LinkedIn) to vote on a potential workshop topic, and half chose TRANSFERABLE SKILLS. So, in two weeks, I will do a workshop on that! US$47, with optional coupon codes for $15 or $10 (keep scrolling). This is happening on Thursday, 3 April, at 1pm EDT (90 min).

Promotional graphic for a workshop titled "Transferable Skills: How to Make Your Work Experience Legible to Non-Academic Employers." The background features a collage of six semi-transparent images, tinted blue, depicting different work and academic settings: a person typing on a laptop with code on the screen, a scientist using a microscope, a professional giving a presentation in front of a whiteboard, a speaker addressing an audience in a lecture hall, a historic university building, and a person searching through a card catalog. The main title, "Transferable Skills," is in large white bold letters, while the subtitle is in black text with yellow underlines highlighting key words. The bottom text provides event details: "Workshop (live and recorded), 3 April 2025, 1pm EDT | Jennifer Polk, From PhD to Life."

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

If the NIH gets messed up, there is no alternative. Not just in the US, but globally. It is by far the biggest engine of health research in the world. Which is why the idea that US scientists can just do their work elsewhere is a little fanciful. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/politicizi...

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Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

If econ memes had a Nobel Prize, @khoavuumn.bsky.social would have won it by popular acclaim. He's beloved in our community of online economists for his kindness and wit. Definite follow.

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Ezra Golberstein @egolberstein.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

One big thing that AHRQ does is run the Medical Expenditures Panel Survey. This may sound like a trivial thing if you are outside the field. But the Congressional Budget Office relies on this information when modeling health policy changes. That is a huge deal.

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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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Alex Everhart @aoeverhart.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Some bad AHRQ puns and some good reporting on the details about the potential elimination of AHRQ. Seems almost identical to the USAID playbook, just a month or so further down the timeline.

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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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