Lisa Force, MD, MPH
@lisaforce.bsky.social
Pediatric oncologist & researcher | Interested in #globaloncology #cancerepi #cancerdisparities | Aspiring to be a force for good | Believe in #healthequity #culturalhumility | She/her | Views my own
We need mask mandates in healthcare settings more than ever
Ian Weissman, DO@drianweissman.bsky.social · last yr."Hospital staff are scrambling with damage control efforts implementing emergency masking policies and giving babies as young as 3 days old injections of immunoglobulin, an antibody that helps their fragile immune system try to fight off #measles." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
It's International #ChildhoodCancer Day. Each year, 400 000 children & adolescents develop #cancer. Common types of childhood cancer include: 🔹Leukaemia 🔹brain tumours 🔹lymphomas 🔹solid tumours (such as neuroblastoma & Wilms tumour) Learn more: bit.ly/2NeFF8B
💔 The disparity in #ChildhoodCancer cure rates is staggering: 📈 More than 80% cure rate in high-income countries 📉 Less than 30% in most low- & middle-income countries. Ensuring equal access to care is the key to saving lives 👉 bit.ly/4hPDeWN
I finally understood what it means for global health to be in the world, but not of it "Distance" is a great way to understand this notion Thanks, Seye www.editions.ird.fr/produit/728/...
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity who.foundation/blogs-post/h...
How a WHO Staff Member Turned the US Withdrawal into an Act of Solidarity
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Someone shared this with me, and I think it's beautiful. That's what I wish for everyone I love and appreciate in this New Year 2025, that your life is filled with an abundance of real luxuries. ❤️
"Access to essential medicines remains a global challenge. Medicines consistently display high prices, low affordability, and poor availability" Sobering study with data from 54 low-income and middle-income countries www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021” #SocEpi #EpiSky #Methods #HealthEquity academic.oup.com/epirev/artic...
Instruments for racial health equity: a scoping review of structural racism measurement, 2019–2021
Abstract. Progress toward racial health equity cannot be made if we cannot measure its fundamental driver: structural racism. As in other epidemiologic stu
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Working in global health, I'm so rarely shocked by inequality anymore, but this is truly shocking
Go Green @ecowarriorss.bsky.social · 2y agoThe richest 1% now has as much wealth as the rest of the world combined, according to Oxfam. They are pushing planet Earth to the abyss www.bbc.com/news/busines...
I never tire of seeing these progressively improved pediatric ALL survival curves, which represent one of the most remarkable achievements in all of medicine. Amazing to see even more improvement with bispecific antibody #immunotherapy presented in the #ASH24 Plenary session. #hematology #leukemia
#ASH24 News: ASH Newborn SCD Screening Program in Sub-Saharan Africa Found Feasible: bit.ly/4faSNXk 🩸🌍 #ConquerSCD #Sicklecell #HemeSky #Hematology
Staggering statistics at #ASH24 #TreatingFairly Patients with cancer who go bankrupt are nearly 80% more likely to die regardless of disease status. Our system quite literally kills people.
"When a child doesn't respond to treatment or relapses, you don't know what really happened. Was it the cancer itself or was the medication at fault?" - Prof Lorna Renner
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This #GivingTuesday is the last day for 2024 #HCWvsHunger donations! If you’re able, you can help fight hunger with a donation to your choice of food bank. I hope for a 🌎 where individual donations aren’t needed, but in the meantime it sure feels good to make a dent in addressing food insecurity 🍎
HCWvsHunger@hcwvshunger.bsky.social · 2y agoThe 2024 #HCWvsHunger competition is underway!! We are in our 5th year of this annual week-ish long competition. Donate to any food bank or anti-hunger org, 📸 your receipt, & log your donation by Tues 12/3/24 11:59p on behalf of a #MedSky team: hcwvshunger.org/how-to-donate/. More at HCWvsHunger.org
Just published: Our Canadian collaboration demonstrated no clear association between Socioeconomic Factors & Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Outcomes onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #childhoodcancer #pedhemeonc #healthequity @c17council.bsky.social
Association Between Socioeconomic Factors and Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia Treatment‐ and Survival‐Related Outcomes in Canada
Background and Aims Studies examing the impact of socioeconomic factors on outcomes in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have yielded inconsistent findings. We aimed to determine whether ...
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Creating a #PHODocs starter pack! Let me know who I’ve forgotten & if you’d like to be added 🙂 go.bsky.app/R6cteE1
I created a starter pack for global health organizations Let me know who else I can add! go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV
A growing problem --- fake papers polluting systematic reviews. And interesting point that the gold-standard protocols that Cochrane is developing to weed out untrustworthy studies, are too much of an effort for systematic-review authors looking at 100s of papers. www.science.org/content/arti...
‘Systematic reviews’ that aim to extract broad conclusions from many studies are in peril
Fake papers are “poisoning the well” for these gold-standard syntheses, researchers say
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"My planned 'simple' total hysterectomy morphed into an 8½ hr marathon, agony 4 my poor family in the waiting room. Yet I consider myself incredibly lucky that my malignancy was found at a relatively early stage since #ovariancancer is ... 1/2 jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Ovarian Odyssey
In this narrative medicine essay, a pediatrician thwarted a likely fatal cancer after undergoing genetic testing after noticing a pattern in her family that turned out to be caused by a genetic variat...
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It is now indisputable that pregnant women needing emergency care are being allowed to die in states that have banned & criminalized abortion Yet somehow it’s fine to ask 🤰 trainees / faculty to travel to these states for medical conferences or miss out on professional opportunities? #idsky #medsky
ProPublica@propublica.org · 2y agoNEW: Porsha Ngumezi is the fifth case we've reported on in which a woman died after not receiving a D&C or its second-trimester equivalent in time, or at all. Her case raises questions about how abortion bans are pressuring doctors to avoid standard care even in straightforward miscarriages.
Global Assessment of Palliative Care Need: Serious Health-Related Suffering Measurement Methodology www.jpsmjournal.com/article/S088...
Global Assessment of Palliative Care Need: Serious Health-Related Suffering Measurement Methodology
Inequities and gaps in palliative care access are a serious impediment to health systems especially in low- and middle-income countries and the accurate measurement of need across health conditions is...
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Saying ‘I don’t know’ in talks has become a lost art, unfortunately. Super interesting discussions require us to be open about what we don’t know and what still needs to be explored. Here’s my recipe for answering questions in talks:
When insulin was first patented in 1923, the discoverers declined to put their names on it as they felt that insulin belonged to the public. 101 years later, insulin is inaccessible to thousands of Americans because of price gouging by near-monopoly private insurance corporations and their PBMs.
More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2y agoBREAKING: CVS Health, UnitedHealth Group and Cigna are suing the Federal Trade Commission, claiming that the agency going after drug middlemen over high insulin prices is unconstitutional.
Surveyed surviving caregivers had worse experiences including lower ratings for timely care & symptom management when their loved one died in hospices owned by private equity firms. 🏥💸⚕️More evidence that, when you run healthcare like a business, people suffer. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Caregiver-Reported Quality in Hospices Owned by Private Equity Firms and Publicly Traded Companies
This study compares differences in caregiver-reported hospice quality across categories of ownership, including for-profit private equity firm (PEF)/publicly traded company (PTC)–owned and non-PEF/PTC...
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This whole thread/blog post by @charlesgaba.com. People often get laser focused on what affects them. So, if nothing else, we advocates need to work on educating the general public on how the ACA protections benefit THEM. #NoLifetimeCaps #WeAreAllPreexistingConditions #publichealth #cancer #oncsky
Charles Gaba ✡️@charlesgaba.com · 2y ago🧵 OK, I'm cross-posting this VERY long & wonky but important thread here: THE DEAD POOL: Since JD Vance wants to Concentrate folks w/pre-existing conditions into separate Camps, let's talk about it. 1/ acasignups.net/24/11/18/dea...
