Responding to a pandemic is as much about social science as it is about virology and immunology. The emergence and spread of #COVID19 owes as much to social, economic, and political conditions as it does to the disease itself. #pophealthtacklescovid #GaleaTakeover
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Improving the Health of Populations Through Science and Innovation. #pophealth #populationhealth #science #research #sdoh #pophealth2021 #sociology
- Hello all! I’m Kerry Keyes, psychiatric epidemiologist at Columbia U. Excited to take over the IAPHS Twitter today, and hopefully have some good conversations about population mental health. Ask me anything :)
- “Population health problems are mainly caused by the actions of wealthy individuals, corporations, and the policy and legal structures they cultivate—not by the poor, the less educated, or other marginalized groups” @MilbankFund onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…
- An introduction: I'm an economist and population health scientist whose research focuses on the causes and consequences of racial/ethnic disparities in reproductive health. I'm especially interested in understanding why Black women, regardless of SES have the worst 1/
- Announcing our 2020 conference #pophealth2020 “Policies, Places, and Profits: Manufacturers of Illness and Health,“ Sept 30 – Oct 2, 2020, in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Program chairs are @smonnat and @jennkarasmontez. #pophealth #populationhealth
- IAPHS 2023 Awards! @ewrigleyfield from @UMnews was awarded the 2023 Milbank Quarterly Early Career Award, congratulations! You can read more here iaphs.org/conference/awa…
- Hello -- I'm so excited to takeover the IAPHS account today to talk about the upcoming @RacismLab Symposium on Race and Racism on 2/24 in collaboration with @ia4phs ! (This is @mhicken at @umisr @UM_SRC and tweets today are my own views).
- Let's talk about COVID and repro equity, which hasn't received enough attention, IMHO. Reminder that these opinions are mine (Tiffany) and not those of @ia4phs! We've had a lot of convos about the medium and long term effects of COVID, but repro health has been marginalized. 1/
- ATTENTION! The University of Washington is looking to hire a tenure track Assistant Professor who specializes in the sociological study of health disparities. For more details check our IAPHS Announcements page TODAY!
- Congratulations to all our 2022 IAPHS award winners! Read more about these outstanding population health scientists and programs this week on our blog. @sandrogalea @drdrtsai @merlinc2 @LeifScience @bertchantarat @ewrigleyfield ow.ly/g7kF50JmtUh
- Asian Americans are stuck between the stereotype of being the model minority or the forever foreigner, which has only perpetuated with the current xenophobia and anti-immigrant sentiments during the COVID-19 pandemic. #DoanTakeover
- My name is Dr. Alexis Dennis (@_ACDennis). I’m a population health scientist & sociologist, and am currently an Assistant Professor of Sociology at @mcgillu. [1/6]
- 1/n Before I begin today, I’d like to invite us all to mourn the #COVID19 Deaths. 233,792 Globally. 63,019 in the U.S. There are names and faces attached to these unsettling statistics and our shared humanity calls on us to grieve the loss of life. Please add a candle below.🕯
GIF - A huge thank you to our 2021 conference program chairs, Hedy Lee @hedwig_lee and Margaret Hicken @mhicken . What a terrific job! #IAPHS2021







