Luisa N. Borrell
@lborrell.bsky.social
DP Epid/Bios @cunysph.bsky.social: Race/ethnicity, socioeconomic position and neighborhood effects as #SDoH | Posts=my opinions/views | RT!= endorsement. EiC: Preventive Medicine #EpiSky, #SocialEpi, #SDoH, #Epidemiology, #CausalInference #CUNY
Over the next couple of months, we're excited to each week spotlight through a brief Q&A a member of our executive council, including our regional councilors, president, & secretary-general. In our first spotlight, meet our Regional Councilor for Africa, Dr. Landon Myer bsky.app/profile/land...!
Cannot agree more! But that is more than PhD supervising that is mentoring!
Georgia Tomova@georgiatomova.bsky.social · 2w agoI think one of the most underrated skills of a good PhD supervisor is actively teaching you the hidden curriculum in academia.
Termination notice: Measures racial discrimination “is subjective & problematic bc different people could interpret the same experience differently” & only studying Blacks “seriously limits possible comparisons & controls & does not seem scientifically justified.” www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH is again terminating grants that the Trump administration dislikes
With cancellation of health disparities project, agency may be testing new way to legally kill politically sensitive grants
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White House offers its science blueprint: More AI, less life sciences www.statnews.com/2026/07/24/s... via @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social
White House offers its science blueprint: More AI, less life sciences
The Trump administration released its blueprint for U.S. science, calling for shifting hundreds of billions of research dollars from universities to industry.
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The University of Virginia is expanding research resources with LeapSpace™, Elsevier’s research-grade AI workspace. Read more: spkl.io/633237JrES
Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Whoops! Most arXiv papers contain information never meant to be shared
Passwords, GPS coordinates and private conversations have all been found in the metadata and source files of millions of preprint submissions.
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"The proposed rule appears to expand political control of scientific and other grants, downgrade the role of peer review and effectively limit researchers’ ability to disseminate their findings and collaborate internationally, among other effects." #HealthEquity #NIH www.nytimes.com/2026/07/09/w...
A Proposed Rule Would Politicize Medical Research. Scientists Are Not Happy.
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📣📣 "While intersectional MAIHDA is a promising new approach..., it is important to acknowledge that, in many ways, the world is far more hostile to this kind of work than when I first began developing the approach over a decade ago." @clarerevans.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A 10-year retrospective review and future directions for intersectional MAIHDA
Marking the 10th anniversary of intersectional MAIHDA (multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy), this commentary o…
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El racismo, el sexismo y el clasismo también enferman. @lborrell.bsky.social explica en #SEEPamplona26 que edad, sexo, etnia, estatus migratorio, clase social o lugar de residencia se combinan y condicionan el acceso a la atención sanitaria, la calidad de vida y la esperanza de vida.
#seepamplona26 | Sociedad Española de Epidemiología
👶 En EEUU, los bebés de mujeres negras tienen una tasa de mortalidad de más del doble que los de mujeres blancas. ⚖️ Un dato que refleja que las desigualdades en salud no pueden explicarse solo por f...
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Un lujo tener a @lborrell.bsky.social en #SEEPamplona26
Sociedad Española de Epidemiología@seepidemiologia.bsky.social · last mo.El racismo, el sexismo y el clasismo también enferman. @lborrell.bsky.social explica en #SEEPamplona26 que edad, sexo, etnia, estatus migratorio, clase social o lugar de residencia se combinan y condicionan el acceso a la atención sanitaria, la calidad de vida y la esperanza de vida.
Health equity researchers fear unseen level of scrutiny under White House proposal www.statnews.com/2026/06/22/h... via @statnews.com @aniloza.bsky.social
Health equity researchers fear unseen level of scrutiny under White House proposal
Health disparities researchers say a new White House proposal could disqualify much of their work from federal funding — perhaps the most serious threat yet to the future of their field.
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#OTD 1937 Jerzy Neyman introduces the confidence interval in a talk given at the Royal Statistical Society. Listeners are not enthusiastic: in the vote of thanks, AJ Bowley wonders aloud if confidence intervals are just a “confidence trick”, doubts their validity & if they were any possible use.
Congratulations to the #CUNYSPH Class of 2026! 🎓✨ We’re so proud of everything you’ve achieved and excited for all that lies ahead! 💙🩵 #CUNYSPH26 #CommencementDay #PublicHealthGrads #CUNY26
New data has shown that 8% of adults have had cancer genetic testing! Among untested adults, 52% knew testing could show future cancer risk and 41% were interested in testing. 93% of adults said knowing whether they were at risk would change their health care decisions.
A new U.S. survey found broad bipartisan support for warning labels, restricting ads to children, and stronger regulation of ultraprocessed foods. Read more at the link below ⬇️
This is terrible for science: "Black PIs experienced the largest relative decline among race groups, dropping from 1627 in 2024 to 1468 in 2025 (−9.8%). Hispanic PIs declined from 2839 to 2632 (−7.3%)." #DEI #PublicHealth #HealrhEquity #EpiSky #SocialEpi
Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD@elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.
Join the CUNY Immigration Assistance Project on May 28 at 6pm for a virtual webinar to learn about the options available to students while they wait for their work authorization cards. This resource is available for current students, faculty, and staff. Register: cuny.edu/ciapwebinar
You matter, and your mental health matters. This Mental Health Month, CUNY encourages students to prioritize their well-being and connect with free support at cuny.edu/mentalhealth.
#HealthEquity: This is really bad! We cannot document or monitor a #PublicHealth problem, we cannot quantify it and/or address it. These data are being targeted because they are called “woke programs”, “racial equity”, “gender ideology” and “climate extremism.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The Trump administration is deleting government data. From infant deaths to hunger, here are five ways it’s hurting Americans
This information was used to understand the problems Americans face. The consequences of its erasure, experts warn, could affect generations to come
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A recent population-based #CUNYSPH study surveying over 6,000 Asian American adults across all five boroughs examine serious psychological distress, unmet treatment needs, and patterns of help-seeking, highlighting gaps in access to care and poorer mental health outcomes. cunysph.me/4cySuq1
Study highlights mental health struggles among Asian adult New Yorkers - CUNY Graduate School of Public Health & Health Policy
A population-based study published in Social Science & Medicine examined serious psychological distress, unmet treatment needs, and help-seeking among Asian American adults in NYC. Led by Dr. Thinh Toan Vu at the NYC Department of...
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CDC leader calls for new journal to ‘elevate scientific rigor’ | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
CDC leader calls for new journal to ‘elevate scientific rigor’
Bhattacharya publicly slams vaccine study he pulled from agency’s flagship publication
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Fake authorship for sale: "An analysis of the advert data found that a first-author slot on an article sold by a paper mill costs a median value of nearly US$800, with prices ranging from $57 to more than $5,600." #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How much for a fake authorship? Ad database reveals secrets of scientific fraud
An analysis of thousands of paper-mill adverts could help journals to crack down on misconduct.
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The damage to science continues: NIH is using "computational text approval tool" to vetting and approving grants by scanning for terms including “racism,” “gender” and “vaccination refusal." #EpiSky #SocialEpi #PublicHealth www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...
Pace of N.I.H. Funding Slows Further in Trump’s Second Year
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Interested in learning about how social risks cluster in populations? The analyses revealed two key findings: -> Health is shaped by overlapping social realities. -> Machine learning-based clustering methods can detect patterns that support upstream action. @ingridgiesinger.bsky.social
📢 Mark your calendars for our next webinar! “What We Learned from Editing the 1st Handbook of Social Epidemiology” with Professor Terrence Hill 📅 Thursday April 28, 2026 🕗 09:00 New York / 14:00 London / 22:00 Tokyo 👉 Register now at tinyurl.com/ISES01 — and please share widely! #SocialEpi #SDoH
Wishing a Happy Easter to our CUNY community members celebrating today! 🌷🐣 May it be filled with joy and the spirit of spring renewal.
📢 Our next webinar is coming up at the end of this month! Stay tuned for details next week! #SocialEpi #EpiSky #PublicHealth
Did you say #PublicHealth? I am all in! @nschwalbe.bsky.social
Nina Schwalbe, MPH, PhD@nschwalbe.bsky.social · 7mo agoI’m running for Congress in my home, New York’s 12th Congressional District, because the federal government is destroying the very systems that keep people safe. Our rights and guardrails of democracy are at risk. We need people who will deliver results. That's what I'll do: ninafornyc.com
