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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 10d

Meet our guests: 🎙️ Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Southeast-Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School 🎙️ Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social, President at @prestopolicy.bsky.social

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 10d

🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

We had the pleasure of working with an incredible group of researchers at JOOUST and are excited to see how they apply their new skills to advance research in economics, public health, and beyond. #impactevaluation #globalhealth #publichealth #economics #research

Future-Proofing Social Protection | by Florian Juergens-Grant & Luca Pellerano - Project Syndicate

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Last month, PRESTO’s Tia Palermo co-facilitated an impact evaluation training at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya, as part of American Institutes for Research’s P3-Africa training and mentoring program.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Would like this on a shirt, please. Applicable in too many situations to count.

"Respectfully, he's making up some shit"

~Jolanda Jones, Texas State Representative

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Center for Global Development @cgdev.org · Dec 11

⏰ HAPPENING NOW: Samantha Power is at CGD to deliver remarks on how USAID is evolving to meet the key development challenges of our time. A conversation between Administrator Power and Andrea Mitchell will follow.

Tune in live ⬇🔴
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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Dec 31

🎉As 2024 comes to an end, at PRESTO we are thankful for our collaborators, our clients, our energetic team, and the opportunity to do meaningful work that we are passionate about. Check out some of the highlights from the past year below. We look forward to even more impact in 2025!

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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · Mar 1

Biting Vermont diss

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Florian Juergens-Grant @floriangrant.bsky.social · Mar 11

How to equitably finance social protection in a world where labour appears to be losing ground?

In this @projectsyndicate.bsky.social piece, Luca Pellerano and I share some of our thinking on re-balancing social protection financing towards capital.

www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/h...

Florian Juergens-Grant & Luca Pellerano explain why employers’ contributions should be determined by capital intensity, not just labor stock.

www.project-syndicate.org

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 8

I had an amazing time presenting one of my dissertation papers at ASPO! Big thank you to the reviewers and programming committee for selecting this as part of the Best of ASPO for Place and Policy and giving me the opportunity to share the importance of neighborhood on breast cancer survival.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! Join PRESTO next week on June 5th as we team up with UNICEF to bust myths on gender and cash transfers in Africa.
Register here: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#cashtransfers #genderequality #socialprotection #SPorgWebinar #Africa @socialprotection.org

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Jun 4

🚨 Join us on 5 June for the #SPorgWebinar ‘Myth vs. Reality: The Impact of Cash Transfers on Gender Equality in Africa’, organised by UNICEF and PRESTO.

🕛 8:00 GMT-4 (EST),
🔗👥 Meet the participants and register: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#SocialProtection #GenderEquality

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 25

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

She presented how adverse childhood events influence program impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth productive outcomes in Tanzania, as part of a study done in collaboration with PRESTO under AIR’s P3 mentoring program.

#uniceftanzania #cashplus #TransferProject #Tanzania #ESAAfrica25

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 25

Big wins for Working Families Party in New York's 2 biggest cities last night - NYC & #Buffalo!

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 25

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

Kicking off an exciting week at the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit! Dr. Dickson Wandeda (University of Nairobi) presented long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer on insurance uptake, morbidity & health seeking.
#AES2025 #cashtransfers #TransferProject

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 14

The US administration has just demanded that UNICEF “re-focus on its core mandate of assisting children, including those impacted by environmental events such as natural disasters, without using the rigid casting of climate as a root cause”

usun.usmission.gov/press-releas...

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join us tomorrow!

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Jun 4

🚨 Join us on 5 June for the #SPorgWebinar ‘Myth vs. Reality: The Impact of Cash Transfers on Gender Equality in Africa’, organised by UNICEF and PRESTO.

🕛 8:00 GMT-4 (EST),
🔗👥 Meet the participants and register: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#SocialProtection #GenderEquality

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 2

(1/2) We’ve enjoyed a productive spring so far! ⭐

A key highlight: Last month Dickson Wandeda and @tiapalermo.bsky.social presented at NYU’s Cash Transfer Lab on the long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer program on health and insurance uptake.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 30

Join me as I busy the myths on gender and cash transfers with a fabulous co-panel.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! Join PRESTO next week on June 5th as we team up with UNICEF to bust myths on gender and cash transfers in Africa.
Register here: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#cashtransfers #genderequality #socialprotection #SPorgWebinar #Africa @socialprotection.org

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

Risks factors include higher likelihood of living near highways, factories or other industrial plants, increasing exposure of pollution, carcinogens and other health risk factors. In turn, living in redlined neighborhoods is associated with lower survival after breast cancer diagnosis.

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

This century-old housing/mortgage policy has reinforced segregation & structural disadvantage through today. Poverty affects lifestyle & environmental risk factors.

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

Spectrum News in Buffalo, NY featured work by Dr. Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social highlighting how redlining policies reduce survival among women with breast cancer.

spectrumlocalnews.com/nys/central-...

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 8

science, stats & Taylor Swift references - analysis by Dr. Dowd never disappoints. ;)

Artificial Intelligence and American Decline

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 8

"as America declines & becomes more...embroiled in authoritarian ideology,...the emerging tool of choice minimizes active and engaged participation in learning...and developing a personal sense of curiosity and critical thinking."

- @jysexton.bsky.social on AI
open.substack.com/pub/jaredyat...

Something very disturbing is happening with the proliferation of artificial intelligence

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Apr 23

In August, Sarah will be joining the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University, where she will be a Postdoctoral Researcher.

Please join me in congratulating Dr. Lima!

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Apr 23

She has also worked with me on topics related to social protection & population health. She brings curiosity, passion, and energy to her work, which you can read more about here: lnkd.in/ebqFRE7H

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