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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Nov 25

Good day to Blue sky🦋 🥰! Allow me 2 introduce myself:
I’m a internal medicine & pediatric academic primary care physician, scholar, scientist, activist, storyteller, poet, mom, wife, speaker, coach, host, mentor & Health equity & justice consultant & strategist.

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Sep 12

It’s like the twilight zone. Topsy turvy world.

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Sep 12

The scourge of whyte on whyte crime and the epidemic of whyte violence needs to end!!!
The National guard needs to be deployed to the shithole that is Utah IMMEDIATELY!!!

What is going on in whyte families???
Why are whyte women raising their sons to be murderers???
Where are the whyte fathers?????

patrick star and spongebob squarepants are standing next to each other in a dark room .

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 27

I’m a Black woman physician, scientist, scholar, movement builder, & mother.
I’m about to give birth.
While living with trauma, PTSD, & ancestral grief.
While the world burns.

Yet…I choose joy.

Giving birth now is revolutionary.
This is vitality.

bit.ly/MaternalVita...
#BlackMaternalVitality

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 24

Keep talking about dem FILES.
#KeepFootOnNecks
#RejectDistraction

Gewdt Mawntint!!!!

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 23

At any AND all times!!!

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 23

There are few words more violent than,
“Calm Down.”

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Jul 19

Instead of the usual deficit lens, can we reframe Black health narratives by embracing Black Joy within a Vitality Framework?

Read this brilliant essay by Drs Ijeoma Opara and Yasmine Elmi!

journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 19

🚨NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
“Reimagining Black maternal health narratives: Embracing a Vitality Framework for joy, liberation, and healing” bit.ly/MaternalVita...

Our @PLOSGlobalPublicHealth paper spotlights wisdom, joy, and healing in Black maternal experiences.

#BlackMate #Vitality

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 16

🚨 New Training Drop!
“Moving Health Literacy Together” is now live! FREE 4-part virtual series of which I led the development for CHWs & health professionals.

📅 Session 1: Thurs 7/17 | 1–2:30PM EST
🧠 Topic: Health Literacy Fundamentals

📲 Register: bit.ly/4eSb9xN

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Union of Concerned Scientists @ucs.org · Jul 10

We are facing the most brazen rollback of civil rights in generations.

On July 17th, five years since the passing of Congressman John Lewis, communities are mobilizing to ensure #GoodTroubleLivesOn and carry John Lewis’ legacy forward.

➡️Find a good trouble event: social.demcast.com/s/65nTti3j

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jul 9

🔊Presenting new research w/ @AIM-AHEAD ScHARe 🔍
in Dallas, TX.
We used machine learning+MEPS data to predict ER use.
Findings:
• Physical disability & food insecurity = 🚨 higher ER visits
• Public insurance, employment, & education = 🔐 protective

#HealthEquity #SDOH #ERuse #DataJustice #Medicaid

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jun 4

How comfortable are you with the concept of structural competency?

#StructuralCompetency #MedicalEducation #HealthEquity #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #NewPublication #AcademicResearch

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jun 4

4️⃣Collective action to drive effective change
5️⃣Community integration and accountability

📖 Read the full article here: www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/14...

Grateful to have collaborated with Drs. Iman F. Hassan (Lead author), Rebecca Leeds, Thuy D. Bui, Sharon E. Connor, Sejal Shah, and Shwetha Iyer.
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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jun 4

… & economic forces, that fundamentally influence health outcomes.
environment:
1️⃣Structural analysis of institutional policies and practices
2️⃣Academic freedom and interdisciplinary discourse
3️⃣Redefining medical education standards and metrics
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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jun 4

We have just been published in the journal Social Sciences Special Issue: Public Health and Social Change.

In this piece, we explore how current medical training environments often fall short in equipping clinicians to address the structural factors like systemic racism, institutional policies,…
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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Jun 4

🚨 New Publication Alert! 🚨

How well do you think current medical education prepared trainees to address the upstream drivers of health?

I’m excited to share that our co-authored article, “Structural Competency and the Medical Learning Environment—An Overdue Paradigm Shift in Medical Education”
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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · May 31

What an amazing day! I gave a talk for the American Kidney Fund’s Health Equity Training program at the Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church to raise awareness of Race Based Medicine in Kidney care.

Many thanks to Ms. Karen Edwards and Gamma Phi Delta sorority, Inc for their kind invitation.

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 19

The way they are bringing back Eugenics????

Chyyyle, not that it ever really left. But this administration is determined to elevate it to the halls to “science”.

Autism is not a disorder or a disease. Ableism is a disorder, and it's contagious.

#Neurodiversity
#AprilAutismAwarenessMonth

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 19

We’re *all* on some sort of spectrum.

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 18

I’m petitioning Nigeria to send troops to the United States of America to liberate us from an authoritarian fascist dictatorship and bring us freedom & democracy.

Cos it takes one to know one.

#IYKYK

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 18

Awwww!!! I’m trying! It’s hard tone up but I’m gonna be more consistent. Yes that other place is a dystopian trash bucket.

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 17

I’m so happy to have been a speaker today on the structural and social drivers of Mental Health for minoritized students and trainees at Harvard Medical School Office of Diversity Inclusion & Community Partnerships.

Cos we’re still outchea doing the work!
Unapologetic, Unbossed, & Unbothered.

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innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 17

🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

innodim.bsky.social @innodim.bsky.social · Apr 6

a bald man with a beard is wearing a shirt that says girl same

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