Anne Sosin
@annesosin.bsky.social
Public health pracademic at Dartmouth | Rural health equity & global health | Occasional writer | Opinions are my own. Still getting started here.
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Anne Sosin
@annesosin.bsky.social
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Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America | Health Affairs Journal
A narrative has taken hold that public health has failed the US. We argue instead that the US has chronically failed public health, and nowhere have these failures been more apparent than in rural reg...
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Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America
New Commentary with Elizabeth Carpenter-Song in the June 2024 Reimagining Public Health Issue of Health Affairs.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
New Commentary with Elizabeth Carpenter-Song in the June 2024 Reimagining Public Health Issue of Health Affairs.
www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10....
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This piece is really good- on why rural hospitals close, why there are a lot more closures coming, and what happens next (accelerating economic and population decline)
When the hospital leaves town www.fiercehealthcare.com/hospitals/wh...
When the hospital leaves town
There are two kinds of Americans: those who live 12 minutes from an emergency department and those who live 72. | In large swaths of rural America, the basic expectation that an ambulance will reach a...
www.fiercehealthcare.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:23 AM
This piece is really good- on why rural hospitals close, why there are a lot more closures coming, and what happens next (accelerating economic and population decline)
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Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
The affiliate marketing HHS
I’m bumping what I had planned to work on today, a bit of critical reflection on AI, in order to write this up instead while everyone is reacting to the...
buttondown.com
November 20, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Here's the newsletter post I wrote today about the CDC vax page and MAHA as marketing buttondown.com/abbycartus/a...
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It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:02 PM
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
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“Lots of people have had to eat without SNAP, so they’ve used their rent money and their utility money, [so] we are likely to see a wave of evictions and utility shutoffs. I think we’re going to see a lot of disruptions in people’s lives for months to come.” prospect.org/2025/11/14/s...
The Shutdown Is Over. SNAP’s Struggles Aren’t. - The American Prospect
Turning off the logistically complicated SNAP system—which relies on the federal government, states, and private companies to function in concert—and then trying to turn it back on quickly is no easy ...
prospect.org
November 15, 2025 at 11:49 AM
“Lots of people have had to eat without SNAP, so they’ve used their rent money and their utility money, [so] we are likely to see a wave of evictions and utility shutoffs. I think we’re going to see a lot of disruptions in people’s lives for months to come.” prospect.org/2025/11/14/s...
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I’m devastated by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s passing. Alice was an incredible advocate, writer, and human. I miss her so much already and am grateful for our time together but mostly for the legacy she left us all. Her memory is a huge blessing. www.facebook.com/share/14QATF...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:35 AM
I’m devastated by @sfdirewolf.bsky.social’s passing. Alice was an incredible advocate, writer, and human. I miss her so much already and am grateful for our time together but mostly for the legacy she left us all. Her memory is a huge blessing. www.facebook.com/share/14QATF...
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Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
As a Pike Co. student, I see the SNAP delays, and I see our people suffer | Opinion
OpEd: As a high school student, I see the struggles of our mountain communities, already hurt by floods, now suffering under SNAP delays.
www.kentucky.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Lottie, a 15yo in Pike County, KY, writes for @kentucky.com about the impact of SNAP delays in her community, which is still recovering from flooding. Cars line up hours before the church where she volunteers begins giving out food: "I see this line growing longer and longer month after month..."
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It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
Public Health Was a Place for Warriors Once. It Needs to Be Again.
It's time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field.
www.thenation.com
November 6, 2025 at 2:40 PM
It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...
"A family of four in Vermont making $130,000 per year — more than four times the federal poverty level — can expect to see a premium hike of nearly $33,000 annually, the report said."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/b...
A $33,000 increase for a Vermont family? Obamacare marketplace insurance prices slated to skyrocket. - The Boston Globe
Those who use the marketplace for their health insurance are about to experience sticker shock, just as open enrollment begins.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:26 AM
"A family of four in Vermont making $130,000 per year — more than four times the federal poverty level — can expect to see a premium hike of nearly $33,000 annually, the report said."
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/b...
www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/31/b...
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Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
Judge Skeptical Over Trump Administration Decision to Suspend Food Stamps
www.nytimes.com
October 31, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country.
Because it's *decided.*
Because it's *decided.*
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This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
In Utah, Trump’s Vision for Homelessness Begins to Take Shape
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 3:45 PM
This @nytimes.com piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
This NYTimes piece on the "Vision for Homelessness" in Utah should horrify all people.
1/x 🧵
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/u...
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With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
October 24, 2025 at 12:26 PM
With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.
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I will also say while I’m at it, that for every argument that you can make for the need to have new / younger / different reps, you can and should dissect how those arguments are ableist and ageist.
I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.
I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.
October 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I will also say while I’m at it, that for every argument that you can make for the need to have new / younger / different reps, you can and should dissect how those arguments are ableist and ageist.
I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.
I’d rather hear how “X” elected is disconnected than trotting out their age like they’re disposable.
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Read this: "Nothing is Holy," by Ava Razavi. I taught a course on writing about the Trumpocene. Ava said, "I don't want to think about it." But she couldn't stop thinking about it. Gorgeous, heartbreaking prose by a new writer on looking for answers. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/nothing-is...
Nothing is Holy
Ava Razavi on trading in American dreams for nightmares.
callingallsyllables.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Read this: "Nothing is Holy," by Ava Razavi. I taught a course on writing about the Trumpocene. Ava said, "I don't want to think about it." But she couldn't stop thinking about it. Gorgeous, heartbreaking prose by a new writer on looking for answers. callingallsyllables.substack.com/p/nothing-is...
Tolerating bigotry until it becomes a political liability is not principled and courageous leadership.
October 15, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Tolerating bigotry until it becomes a political liability is not principled and courageous leadership.
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EIS outbreak investigators, Africa-based staff on Ebola, editors of main journal updating health officials, gone.
Administration is doing all it can to enable viruses.
This isn’t mysterious: people this administration is actually accountable to can largely exit, stay home.
Inequality=>Pandemics
Administration is doing all it can to enable viruses.
This isn’t mysterious: people this administration is actually accountable to can largely exit, stay home.
Inequality=>Pandemics
Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)
October 11, 2025 at 11:16 PM
EIS outbreak investigators, Africa-based staff on Ebola, editors of main journal updating health officials, gone.
Administration is doing all it can to enable viruses.
This isn’t mysterious: people this administration is actually accountable to can largely exit, stay home.
Inequality=>Pandemics
Administration is doing all it can to enable viruses.
This isn’t mysterious: people this administration is actually accountable to can largely exit, stay home.
Inequality=>Pandemics
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Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.
October 11, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Community safety comes from ensuring that everyone has a safe and secure place to live. Community safety comes from ensuring that we have well-funded, high functioning schools. Community safety comes from ensuring everyone has access to the healthcare that they need.
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They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
They know they won't be in power forever. So, they're breaking as much as they can right now, in the hope that whoever follows them won't be able to put it all back together.
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I am grateful to work alongside colleagues in the health/public health space who are intentional about building our power as academics in service of advancing health equity. We are the Health and Power Organizing Project (HPOP). Read our AJPH paper here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
Why Building Power Is Key to Protecting Academic Public Health and Advancing Health Equity | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 11
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
October 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
I am grateful to work alongside colleagues in the health/public health space who are intentional about building our power as academics in service of advancing health equity. We are the Health and Power Organizing Project (HPOP). Read our AJPH paper here: ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/10.2105/...
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Part 3 in my ongoing series, "How (Not) to Write about Homelessness."
People don't "fall" into homelessness, they are pushed. Our stories about homelessness should reflect that, and refuse to allow the pushers to remain invisible.
Read more: kevinmnye.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
People don't "fall" into homelessness, they are pushed. Our stories about homelessness should reflect that, and refuse to allow the pushers to remain invisible.
Read more: kevinmnye.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
How (Not) to Write about Homelessness 3
Rule #3: Who is the *villain* of the story?
kevinmnye.substack.com
October 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Part 3 in my ongoing series, "How (Not) to Write about Homelessness."
People don't "fall" into homelessness, they are pushed. Our stories about homelessness should reflect that, and refuse to allow the pushers to remain invisible.
Read more: kevinmnye.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
People don't "fall" into homelessness, they are pushed. Our stories about homelessness should reflect that, and refuse to allow the pushers to remain invisible.
Read more: kevinmnye.substack.com/p/how-not-to...
“Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would give up its legal rights and would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.” @brendannyhan.bsky.social & Lisa Fazio
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Trump sent a 'compact' to our universities. They should reject this devil's bargain.
Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.
www.msnbc.com
October 7, 2025 at 11:08 PM
“Any institution that yields to these broad and intrusive demands would give up its legal rights and would forever be subservient to the whims of the government.” @brendannyhan.bsky.social & Lisa Fazio
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
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Sam the rural health advoCATe is worried about rural hospitals and their survival. And as a public health cat, he is also worried about a "who deserves it" tone in many comments. Public health cares for all, even those who disagree/are disagreeable. Dead folks can't change.
#PowerOfRuralCat
#PowerOfRuralCat
The administration's new immigrant visa rules are set to hit hospitals in 3 states hardest. All 3 voted for Trump. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump's new $100K visa fee could pummel red state hospitals
Rural areas that overwhelmingly voted for the president employ a high concentration of doctors on H-1B visas.
www.politico.com
October 3, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Sam the rural health advoCATe is worried about rural hospitals and their survival. And as a public health cat, he is also worried about a "who deserves it" tone in many comments. Public health cares for all, even those who disagree/are disagreeable. Dead folks can't change.
#PowerOfRuralCat
#PowerOfRuralCat
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@maxjordan.bsky.social Bending science for political gain doesn't restore trust. It grows the market for false cures. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
Pills and Illusions
Bending science for political gain doesn't restore trust. It grows the market for false cures.
open.substack.com
October 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
@maxjordan.bsky.social Bending science for political gain doesn't restore trust. It grows the market for false cures. open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
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“You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development
Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
September 30, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“You can’t see what you’ve never had to live”—Cultivating imagination and solution spaces in global health and development
Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Please read our new paper in @plosglobalpublichealth.org
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...