2023 Public health stories #9

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 9 of 2023. I. Do No Unconscious Harm from Science Mag. A very interesting piece about implicit bias in health care and how to overcome it. II. III. “Although anti-vaccine activism was already increasing in the USA and internationally, the 2020 emergence […]

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2023 Public health stories #8

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 8 of 2023. I. “Assessing the impact of one million COVID-19 deaths in America: economic and life expectancy losses” from Nature Between February 2020 and May 2022, one million Americans have died of COVID-19. To determine the contribution of those deaths to […]

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2023 Public health stories #6

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 6 of 2023. I. 9 diseases that keep epidemiologists up at night II. III. ChatGPT: Five priorities for research from Nature Disclaimer: Posts and opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.

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2023 Public health stories #5

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 5 of 2023. I. II. @CSIS report offers recommendations to strengthen CDC so the agency can better protect people in the US and around the world. Access it from here. III. Editorial from @Nature is on large language #AI models, such as […]

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2023 Public health stories #3

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 3 of 2023. I. II. III. Could Ultrasound Replace the Stethoscope? from The Newyorker “Miniaturization, experimentation, and A.I. have unlocked revolutionary potential in an old technology.“ Disclaimer: Posts and opinions are my own and do not reflect the views of my employer.

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2023 Public health stories #2

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 2 of 2023. I. “To be broadly applicable, an AI model needs to be reproducible, which means the code and data should be available and error-free, …….But privacy issues, ethical concerns and regulatory hurdles have made reproducibility elusive in health-care AI” The […]

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2023 Public health stories #1

Curated public health stories for this week from my reading shelf for Week 1 of 2023. I. Best of 2022 global health stories from Think Global Health II. III. The value of local public health departments– “The de Beaumont Foundation commissioned Morning Consult to survey and track awareness of public health departments, perceptions of their […]

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2022 Public health Year IN REVIEW

Curated list of lists- Top 2022 public health stories that stood out from my reading shelf for wrapping up 2022. 1. Public health data modernization is in the works. There are several efforts and initiatives underway intended to transform the way data is moved in public health now. 2. The effects of overturning Roe v. Wade in seven simple […]

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