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  A must needed project: “Estimating the Reliability and Robustness of Research (ERROR), pays specialists to check highly cited published papers, starting with the social and behavioural sciences (see go.nature.com/4bmlvkj).” #Academia #epiverse https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01465-y

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  Delighted to share this @JournalGIM piece with @jes_cerdena & @marievp_hu where we call attention to the effect of using race-based clinical algorithms for racialized health inequities as it hardens false biological concepts of race and may harm especially oppressed patients. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11606-024-08919-z

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  The AJPH Special Issue "Advancing Hispanic/Latino Health Research Pa'lante" was published yesterday. Thanks to @rwjfoundation.bsky.social! Please check the collections of editorials, perspectives, practice, and research papers in the Special Issue. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/114/S6

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  Will the health status of the changing Hispanic population remain ‘paradoxical’? We must acknowledge the sociodemographic & cultural diversity, immigration changes & racial identity as we look at the future of the Hispanic paradox. https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/AJPH.2024.307697

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  Delighted to share this paper with colleagues from the U of Alcala & Basque Country calling attention to immigration as a SDoH, & identifying potential factors leading to bad/poor rating of health in the immigrant population over time in Spain. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743524002512?via%3Dihub

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  Delighted to share this paper product of my Epid III class, Spring 2024, where we found an association between e-cig use & any respiratory illness in U.S. adults, with stronger associations in older adults. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0091743524002731?via%3Dihub

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  Nearly half (47%) say they have heard of #Latinx in 2023 vs. 23% in 2019. BUT only 4% of Hispanics/Latinos use it & 75% say it should not be used vs. 3% & 65%, respectively. #Hispanic (52%) is the preferred term followed by #Latino (29%). https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2024/09/12/latinx-awareness-has-doubled-among-u-s-hispanics-since-2019-but-only-4-percent-use-it/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=61f112cf92-Weekly_9-14-24&utm_medium=ema...

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  #Academia crisis: “Impossible to be a top-line manager & administrator, mentor, researcher, and IT expert and online instructor and pedagogical innovator,…, grant bidder & editor, and look after your own wellbeing.” https://voicesofacademia.com/2024/04/05/its-not-your-fault-that-academic-life-is-getting-harder-by-glen-ohara/

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  Race and lung function equation: The use of the race-neutral equation could increase annual disability payments by 17%, or $1.1 billion, for Black veterans and drop by about 1%, or > $500 million, for White veterans. #Racism https://undark.org/2024/09/24/the-downstream-effects-of-fixing-a-racist-lung-test/?utm_source=Undark%3A+News+%26+Updates&utm_campaign=8c74b3f968-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5cee408d66-185e4e09de-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D htt...

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  As #Hispanic Heritage Month is approaching, let's get to know who are the 65.2 million #Hispanics/#Latinos in the U.S.? https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2024/09/12/who-is-hispanic/?utm_source=Pew+Research+Center&utm_campaign=ca5b709caa-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_09_13_01_09&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-ca5b709caa-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D

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  #GenderBias: Evidence from 8 studies shows that men and women were more than twice as likely to describe a male (vs. female) professional by surname in domains, such as science, literature, and politics. #OpenSexism #GenderInequity https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6048538/

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  As we start celebrating the #Hispanic Heritage Month, here is an excellent collection of articles in #AJPH addressing the health status and more of the #Hispanic/Latino population. #LatinHeritageMonth https://ajph.aphapublications.org/toc/ajph/114/S6

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  #Academia & Underepresented Minoritized (URM) faculty: There is a double standard in how scholarly productivity is rewarded: URM faculty are judged more harshly than non-URM faculty, especially URM women. #OpenSexism #Racism #RacismInAcademia #GenderInequity https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-01977-7

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  #Mediation & #DAG: “The main mediation models show that there is a partial mediation between cognitive ability, gender, & self-reported well-being, as well as between gender, cognitive ability, & well-being.” #Epiverse #CausalInference https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1396682/full

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  NSF’s canceled grants heavily affect women, Hispanic and Black PIs although they represent <34% of PIs in active grants. #DEI #Diversity #Inequity https://www.science.org/content/article/nsf-s-grant-cuts-fall-heaviest-scientists-underrepresented-groups

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  Delighted to share a paper with T Vu where we found that grade, race/ethnicity, sex, and sexual identity explained 79.6% of the variance in binge drinking inequities; the unexplained was due intersectional interaction effects. #MAIHDA #Intersectionality #SocEpi https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0306460326002613