Impact evaluation of health-related social policies and programs around the world. Based @ihsp_mcgill https://xitter.cf/t.co/PPdF4H0DIC #epitwitter
Montreal, QC Canada
Joined January 2015
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Big news! We have updated +added to our longitudinal policy databases, all open access and free to download either from our website or the Harvard Dataverse bit.ly/2NviyXr (more details in thread) @CIHR_IRSC @ihsp_mcgill @WPolicyCenter @paid_leave @georgeinstitute
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A new analysis finds India has “substantially greater” #COVID19 deaths than official reports suggest—close to 3 million, which is more than six times higher than the government has acknowledged and the largest number of any country. scim.ag/3HxVCl4
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Worked on this paper for >3 yrs so happy it is published! We modelled & predicted BP & BMI for 10% of all women in #Accra Ghana & mapped trends at the small-area level within the city to assess #inequalities using #bayesian spatial models 🧵@raphazi1 @guenther_fink
Sierra N. Clark and colleagues analyze spatial variations of blood pressure and body mass index and associated factors in Ghanaian women: doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed… @sierraclark2 @Pathways2Equity
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Just out in @TheLancet!
Detailed analysis of @TheIndPanel's day by day chronology of the early months of the #COVID19 pandemic.
Important lessons that must drive reforms to protect global #publichealth.
Thankful to the awesome team who worked on this!
thelancet.com/journals/lance…
PROSPERED collaborator Jay Kaufman and others in @bmj_latest: in Canada, decreases in PM2.5 #pollution were associated with lower mortality + increases in PM2.5 were associated with higher mortality, mostly from cardiometabolic and respiratory conditions bit.ly/3mXIiNY
An underreported health effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: more than 140,000 U.S. children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionately among racial and ethnic minorities bit.ly/3iQWRlt
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BREAKING News. The @WHO just updated their air quality guidelines. It's huge news. 1st major update in 15 years. We need health-protective guidelines. For many pollutants the new thresholds are HALF what they used to be. Big changes for PM2.5, NO2. SHORT-TERM exposure see here:
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With dozens of researchers at Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and IPA and several other organizations, we ran a cluster randomized trial involving almost 350,000 people and 600 villages in Bangladesh to assess the impact of community masking on COVID.
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“It just felt like, Have you talked to any of us?”
Fabulous story by @edyong209. What stands out most is how much science needs to engage beyond disciplines & silos, flip traditional models of expertise to include patients & communities we aim to serve. theatlantic.com/science/arch…
PROSPERED member Jay Kaufman FAQs on school COVID safety, Delta: "Less attention needs to go to disinfecting and cleaning, because transmission through surfaces or objects is unlikely... focus has shifted to air quality and ventilation in the classroom." yhoo.it/3mUCQgM
PROSPERED PhD fellow (now graduated) Dr. Caroline King has published a guide to applying Random Forest, a machine learning method, to health administrative data bit.ly/3kNu3My @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH
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#McGill undergraduate & graduate students have until July 11 to apply to the @ihsp_mcgill Internship program! 7 to 11 awards worth $2K available for the Fall 2021 term + the chance to learn how social conditions affect health and well-being.
Details at mcgill.ca/ihsp/studentprogra…
ALT IHSP Fall 2021 Internship Program flyer: on right hand side, students attending a lecture, on the left hand side, white text on a yellow and blue background: Join our program and learn how to design policy solutions aimed at benefitting population health and welfare. Weekly seminars centered on themes related to population health policy and social welfare
PROSPERED student @follyjan is the author of a systematic review protocol on the impact of abortion law reforms on women’s health services and outcomes in Systematic Reviews. Stay tuned for the review results! @EvidenceRobot #WomensHealth @Guttmacher bit.ly/3ytdbxU
PROSPERED students @cmjoyce26 and Sherry Hou recently evaluated a new baby-friendly hospital accreditation system developed by @aliveandthrive and found it was associated with increases in early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding bit.ly/3jx2hDr
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NEW PUBLICATION: The Association between a Novel Baby-Friendly Hospital Program and Equitable Support for Breastfeeding in Vietnam. @aliveandthrive @fhi360research @mcgillu @prosperedproj @arijitknandi @Duong95462326 @MathisenRoger @IJERPH_MDPI mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/13/670…
We're looking for a graduate student with experience in quantitative methodology & fluent in French for summer RA position evaluating community programs to manage COVID-19 in #Montreal bit.ly/3aFKDb3 @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH @McGillGHP @McGillEBOH
We're very pleased that PROSPERED was awarded a @CIHR_IRSC Project Grant for a 3-year study of the impact of a publicly-funded insurance scheme in India on use of maternal and infant health services. We'll be collaborating with some great colleagues at @IIM_Bangalore. Stay tuned!
Our fellow @Josec_C finds that homicide, suicide and motor vehicle deaths fell post-lockdown in Peru, although homicide is starting to trend up bit.ly/379zHjw Homicides of women (usually IPV) also fell while calls to domestic violence hotlines increased @McGill_SPGH
Our team member Erin Strumpf asking some tough questions about COVID response in @mtlgazette bit.ly/2SFUa8U @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH