Erika Crable, PhD
@erikacrable.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, UCLA HPM | I study how to improve access to effective health services for people living with substance use disorders | #healthpolicy #ImpSci
Last day to comment on a proposed rule that would turn many civil servants into at will political appointees. Voice your comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... Cite the Doc ID to have your comment count: OPM-2025-0004-0001
Regulations.gov
www.regulations.gov
May 22, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Last day to comment on a proposed rule that would turn many civil servants into at will political appointees. Voice your comments here: www.regulations.gov/document/OPM... Cite the Doc ID to have your comment count: OPM-2025-0004-0001
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📢 We’re wrapping up our APCS-funded D&I speaker series with one last exciting panel! Join us for a panel on Policy Dissemination and Implementation featuring @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social, @erikacrable.bsky.social, and Dr. Jonathan Purtle 🏛️🧠 Use the QR code to register and get the Zoom link!
May 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
📢 We’re wrapping up our APCS-funded D&I speaker series with one last exciting panel! Join us for a panel on Policy Dissemination and Implementation featuring @emmabethmcginty.bsky.social, @erikacrable.bsky.social, and Dr. Jonathan Purtle 🏛️🧠 Use the QR code to register and get the Zoom link!
In case this wasn't obvious - calling something "evidence based" requires accurately presenting rigorous data from multiple reliable sources to show a consistent outcome.
a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star
ALT: a rainbow with the words " be more you know " and a star
media.tenor.com
May 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
In case this wasn't obvious - calling something "evidence based" requires accurately presenting rigorous data from multiple reliable sources to show a consistent outcome.
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Great new visual from KFF breaking down the nearly 14 million additional people who'd be uninsured if the GOP is successful.
May 13, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Great new visual from KFF breaking down the nearly 14 million additional people who'd be uninsured if the GOP is successful.
As always, KFF delivers with a useful tracker of proposed changes to Medicaid policy 👇
Want a cheat sheet to follow along as the House Energy and Commerce Committee considers Medicaid changes? We’ve got you covered.
www.kff.org/tracking-the...
www.kff.org/tracking-the...
Tracking the Medicaid Provisions in the 2025 Reconciliation Bill | KFF
KFF is tracking the Medicaid provisions in the 2025 federal budget bill, including new Medicaid work and verification requirements and a reduction in the expansion match rate for states that use their...
www.kff.org
May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
As always, KFF delivers with a useful tracker of proposed changes to Medicaid policy 👇
Join us 5/22/25 for a #NIDA HEAL Workshop about health economics tools to address practice challenges in preventing & treating mental illness & SUDs. Conversation & presentations by me & other NIDA-funded investigators bit.ly/HEALHealthEc...
@ucsd-disc.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
@ucsd-disc.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
HEAL Workshop: Health Economics Research to Address the Needs of Those With Serious Mental Illness, Substance Use Disorder, and Comorbid Conditions
A forum for partners to engage with health economic researchers to identify priorities for people with mental illness and SUD.
bit.ly
April 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Join us 5/22/25 for a #NIDA HEAL Workshop about health economics tools to address practice challenges in preventing & treating mental illness & SUDs. Conversation & presentations by me & other NIDA-funded investigators bit.ly/HEALHealthEc...
@ucsd-disc.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
@ucsd-disc.bsky.social @ucsdhealthsci.bsky.social
Early career researchers, scientific advancements & return on tax payer $ for funded grants are in jeopardy. A clear explainer of what is at stake & how to help early career folks.
#ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation
#ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation
Uncertainty in Science and Among Early Career Investigators
This JAMA Forum discusses the current climate of uncertainty in scientific research and suggests mechanisms to support early career scientists.
jamanetwork.com
April 25, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Early career researchers, scientific advancements & return on tax payer $ for funded grants are in jeopardy. A clear explainer of what is at stake & how to help early career folks.
#ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation
#ImpSci #KnowledgeTranslation
📣 It's simple: politicizing science = less safe, effective cancer care, SUD treatment, vaccines = poor quality of life, unnecessary deaths. Helpful visualization by @kff.org. At least 780 grants terminated (universities alone, more across other institutes). Tell your neighbors why this matters! 🧪
Beyond Ivy League, RFK Jr.’s NIH Slashed Science Funding Across States That Backed Trump - KFF Health News
A KFF Health News analysis underscores how the terminations have spared no part of the country, politically or geographically. Of the organizations that had grants cut in the first month, about 40% ar...
kffhealthnews.org
April 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM
📣 It's simple: politicizing science = less safe, effective cancer care, SUD treatment, vaccines = poor quality of life, unnecessary deaths. Helpful visualization by @kff.org. At least 780 grants terminated (universities alone, more across other institutes). Tell your neighbors why this matters! 🧪
The proposal cuts the #NIH budget 40% to $27 billion, consolidates the NIH’s into 8 institutes, eliminating many. This would be devastating for keeping Americans healthy & scientifically advanced. Call Congress now!
Internal budget document reveals extent of Trump’s proposed health cuts
HHS would be asked to absorb a $40 billion cut, about one-third of its discretionary budget.
www.washingtonpost.com
April 16, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The proposal cuts the #NIH budget 40% to $27 billion, consolidates the NIH’s into 8 institutes, eliminating many. This would be devastating for keeping Americans healthy & scientifically advanced. Call Congress now!
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Do you know about health-related programs that have been cancelled due to federal funding cuts or delays?
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email [email protected] 🌈
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email [email protected] 🌈
April 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Do you know about health-related programs that have been cancelled due to federal funding cuts or delays?
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email [email protected] 🌈
@kffhealthnews.org we're looking to cover stories about programs that provided *direct* services to people.
Send me a DM or email [email protected] 🌈
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From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
March 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
From 2010 to 2016 (latest data I have ), NIH research contributed to EVERY drug approved by the FDA
🙏 Shameless ask: It’s my birthday. Scientists, please call your Congress peeps & tell them why AHRQ & NIH are critical to curing cancer, treating & preventing substance use, ensuring healthcare access in rural America, the list goes on. Without real #AHRQ & #NIH funding we will be a sicker country.
🚨 AHRQ is feared to be the next target for mass layoffs by the Trump administration. The agency conducts essential research on rural health, nutrition, health care quality and costs, and lawmakers are taking the threat to its staffing seriously. Read more in STAT News:
HHS agency responsible for health care quality research threatened with mass layoffs
AHRQ, a small government agency responsible for health care quality research, is feared to be the latest target for mass layoffs by the Trump administration.
buff.ly
March 21, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.
Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪
Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪
White House withdraws Trump's pick Dave Weldon as CDC director pick
The White House is withdrawing President Donald Trump's nomination of Republican former congressman and vaccine critic Dave Weldon to serve as director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a source briefed on the matter said on Thursday.
www.reuters.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Trump just withdrew the bad CDC nominee after public blowback about the measles vaccine.
Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪
Scientists, we can achieve the same with the bad NIH nominee. Public pressure can force out Bhattacharya.
Your voices are needed now. Please take action. 🧪
Sage words from Dr. Volkow about how the NIH and NIDA that have "no parallel in the world in terms of its contribution to knowledge, to science, to solutions, to health care, and to economics." #SavetheNIH
Top addiction researcher Nora Volkow on NIH cuts, optimism, and the limits of RFK Jr.’s 12-step experience
In a Q&A, NIH addiction chief Nora Volkow speaks about RFK Jr.'s policy shake-ups, 12-step recovery limits, and why overdose deaths are falling.
www.statnews.com
March 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Sage words from Dr. Volkow about how the NIH and NIDA that have "no parallel in the world in terms of its contribution to knowledge, to science, to solutions, to health care, and to economics." #SavetheNIH
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
February 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Another loss for #science & the next generation of researchers. The 28-year running NIDA summer internship program is cancelled for this year.
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
@altnih4science.bsky.social #SavetheNIH
📢 Make it a goal to talk to 3 family members, friends, or strangers each week about how freezes on scientific progress & higher education will negatively impact people’s lives in a personal way (cancer tx, their kids college, etc). The general public needs to know why this matters.
Trump halts medical research funding in apparent violation of judge’s order
Health department orders NIH to hold Federal Register submissions – critical step in process for funding studies
www.theguardian.com
February 23, 2025 at 6:26 PM
📢 Make it a goal to talk to 3 family members, friends, or strangers each week about how freezes on scientific progress & higher education will negatively impact people’s lives in a personal way (cancer tx, their kids college, etc). The general public needs to know why this matters.
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“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...
allea.org
February 23, 2025 at 5:49 PM
“The European Federation of Academies of Sciences and Humanities expresses grave concern over the escalating threats to academic freedom, both in the United States and beyond” 🧪
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...
European academies have isssued a joint statement on what is going on in US here: allea.org/wp-content/u...
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Even if the administration allows meetings to resume, there is already a huge backlog of applications and far fewer federal officials to process the backlog.
2025 will go down as a dark year for American science. We need to keep speaking out about this.
#NIHMatters #ScienceMatters
2025 will go down as a dark year for American science. We need to keep speaking out about this.
#NIHMatters #ScienceMatters
February 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Even if the administration allows meetings to resume, there is already a huge backlog of applications and far fewer federal officials to process the backlog.
2025 will go down as a dark year for American science. We need to keep speaking out about this.
#NIHMatters #ScienceMatters
2025 will go down as a dark year for American science. We need to keep speaking out about this.
#NIHMatters #ScienceMatters
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Some brief thoughts from someone who studies public opinion. The federal firing spree can be made unpopular because it is being done in a haphazard way, there will be huge economic effects not just in DC but also across country & it's also likely illegal in many cases. But how to make that argument?
February 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Some brief thoughts from someone who studies public opinion. The federal firing spree can be made unpopular because it is being done in a haphazard way, there will be huge economic effects not just in DC but also across country & it's also likely illegal in many cases. But how to make that argument?
Reposted by Erika Crable, PhD
Firing the heads of Institutes at the NIH (NIAID, NIDA, NCI, etc) will mean:
-More cancer deaths
-More overdose deaths
-More AIDS deaths
-More asthma deaths
-More cardiovascular deaths
-More lupus deaths
-More measles deaths
-More sepsis deaths
-More liver & kidney-related deaths
-More infant deaths
-More cancer deaths
-More overdose deaths
-More AIDS deaths
-More asthma deaths
-More cardiovascular deaths
-More lupus deaths
-More measles deaths
-More sepsis deaths
-More liver & kidney-related deaths
-More infant deaths
February 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Firing the heads of Institutes at the NIH (NIAID, NIDA, NCI, etc) will mean:
-More cancer deaths
-More overdose deaths
-More AIDS deaths
-More asthma deaths
-More cardiovascular deaths
-More lupus deaths
-More measles deaths
-More sepsis deaths
-More liver & kidney-related deaths
-More infant deaths
-More cancer deaths
-More overdose deaths
-More AIDS deaths
-More asthma deaths
-More cardiovascular deaths
-More lupus deaths
-More measles deaths
-More sepsis deaths
-More liver & kidney-related deaths
-More infant deaths
#HealthPolicyValentines - the bright spot we need today!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Of evidence-based SUD treatment policies,
There simply are too few,
Next time you think,
'Hey, why not just get treatment?'
Remember, SUD stigma and misinformation are all too frequent 💜
@kffhealthnews.org
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Of evidence-based SUD treatment policies,
There simply are too few,
Next time you think,
'Hey, why not just get treatment?'
Remember, SUD stigma and misinformation are all too frequent 💜
@kffhealthnews.org
February 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
#HealthPolicyValentines - the bright spot we need today!
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Of evidence-based SUD treatment policies,
There simply are too few,
Next time you think,
'Hey, why not just get treatment?'
Remember, SUD stigma and misinformation are all too frequent 💜
@kffhealthnews.org
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Of evidence-based SUD treatment policies,
There simply are too few,
Next time you think,
'Hey, why not just get treatment?'
Remember, SUD stigma and misinformation are all too frequent 💜
@kffhealthnews.org
Reposted by Erika Crable, PhD
Please someone cover this!
@jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
CDC is being gutted by 5pm today.
@jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
CDC is being gutted by 5pm today.
February 14, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Please someone cover this!
@jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
CDC is being gutted by 5pm today.
@jaketapper.bsky.social @kaitlancollins.bsky.social @mcuban.bsky.social
CDC is being gutted by 5pm today.
Reposted by Erika Crable, PhD
- There is a “Stand up for Science” event happening on March 7, 2025 in DC (standupforscience.org).
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.
February 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
- There is a “Stand up for Science” event happening on March 7, 2025 in DC (standupforscience.org).
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.
- Federal workers: Watch for changes in your work processes and not any changes you’re asked to make. Document everything.
Hey 🧪 NIH Loan Repayment Program awardees: Anyone notice their quarterly payments have stopped? The January payment never happened. Curious if others are seeing this (I expect this is not uncommon).
February 11, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Hey 🧪 NIH Loan Repayment Program awardees: Anyone notice their quarterly payments have stopped? The January payment never happened. Curious if others are seeing this (I expect this is not uncommon).
Reposted by Erika Crable, PhD
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
February 8, 2025 at 1:24 AM
The Senate HELP Committee has jurisdiction over NIH.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.
GOP members of the committee represent AK, AL, IN, FL, KS, KY, LA, ME, MO, OH, and SC.
Research universities and hospitals in those states need to be extra loud.