karim
@sariahmed.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, primary care physician/researcher (PTSD, pain, political economy). 🇩🇿 Put People First! PA taught me to organize. opinions are my own.
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@sariahmed.bsky.social
· Oct 21
New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
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Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/
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In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain.
Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...
Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...
November 18, 2025 at 3:55 PM
In a new analysis from the OPTIMUM trial, researchers studied the prevalence and co-occurrence of chronic overlapping #pain conditions among patients with chronic #LowBackPain.
Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...
Learn more ➡️ duke.is/pctnews20251...
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NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 13, 2025 at 2:47 PM
NEW: Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, and tell local cops whether to contact ICE about the person, while also removing apps designed to warn communities about ICE officials.
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
“Google wanted to ‘not be evil’ back in the day. Well, they're evil now."
This is indeed so deliciously written.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is indeed so deliciously written.
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Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!
New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 22, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Great thread, summarizing our work on J&J's Advac and the perils of what we term 'platform thinking'!
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This is a neat paper ⬇️.
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October 23, 2025 at 5:25 AM
This is a neat paper ⬇️.
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New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 7:52 PM
New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/
New paper!
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Karim Sariahmed, Janice E. Graham, Matthew Herder & Christopher J. Morten, Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of “Platform Thinking”: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Viral Vector Vaccines, 387 Social Science & Medicine 118687 (2025).
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/
Public sector innovation and the constraints of ‘platform thinking’: An account of Johnson & Johnson's adenoviral vector vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson's (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Read our work in Social Science & Medicine on vectors, "platforms," and the political economy of vaccine development as it relates to J&J's adenoviral vector. Health research systems can be built to understand and solve public health problems, but that's not what we observed here unfortunately. 1/
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Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Public Sector Innovation and the Constraints of ‘Platform Thinking’: An Account of Johnson & Johnson’s Adenoviral Vector Vaccines
Scholarship on political economy of vaccines in the COVID-19 era has focused on mRNA. Yet Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) vaccine based on recombinant adeno…
www.sciencedirect.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Just published in Social Science & Medicine! Led by @sariahmed.bsky.social + @cmorten.bsky.social we interrogate how 'platform thinking' constrains not only pharma companies like J&J but also science more broadly.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...
When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed
www.croakey.org
October 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
When journalists, healthcare workers and children are targets, their stories must be recorded and witnessed www.croakey.org/when-journal...
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This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
October 5, 2025 at 5:24 PM
This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
Community action works.
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...
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Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel.
October 6, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Kieran Andrieu, a British Palestinian member of the Global Sumud Flotilla, now back in London, shares what happened when he and fellow activists were captured and imprisoned by Israel.
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This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon
September 25, 2025 at 5:08 PM
This is a very important empirical (!) study accounting for the mental health impact of genocide on health care workers in Gaza. Much respect to the researchers who conducted a survey under the hardest conditions, especially those in Gaza. These urgent testimonies warrant to be read and acted upon
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2nd Annual Doctors Against Genocide Conference, this weekend, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency
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Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency
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September 18, 2025 at 10:44 PM
2nd Annual Doctors Against Genocide Conference, this weekend, at University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency
www.instagram.com/p/DNlYz4dxrOL/
Theme: Genocide and Mass Atrocities as a Global Public Health Emergency
www.instagram.com/p/DNlYz4dxrOL/
Relevant data from an overlapping and larger sample collected with @msf.ca and the Palestinian MOH, which we didn't find during the latest revision. Reporting very high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in mid to late 2024, nearly a year later. sciencepg.com/article/10.1...
September 13, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Relevant data from an overlapping and larger sample collected with @msf.ca and the Palestinian MOH, which we didn't find during the latest revision. Reporting very high levels of stress, anxiety, and depression in mid to late 2024, nearly a year later. sciencepg.com/article/10.1...
Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow).
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
Displacement, personal loss, and psychological strain among physicians and nurses working in Gaza, 2023–2024
On January 26th 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) recognized plausible grounds for genocide being committed in Gaza by Israel. A hallmark of the violence has been unprecedented attacks on...
journals.plos.org
September 11, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Our work on the mental health of health workers in Gaza is now out in @plosglobalpublichealth.org. The findings are not surprising - health workers were being terrorized from the beginning of the genocide (data from December 2023- Jan 2024 peer review is slow).
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents.
September 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Palestinian children in Gaza are seen collecting the remnants of dough prepared by their mother after an Israeli attack destroyed their tents.
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Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has condemned the Israeli strike on Doha as “state terrorism”, warning that Qatar will not tolerate violations of its sovereignty.
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Qatari PM Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has condemned the Israeli strike on Doha as “state terrorism”, warning that Qatar will not tolerate violations of its sovereignty.
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Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal.
In the past 24 hours, Israel has bombed:
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
•Tunisia (aid flotilla)
and now
• Qatar (Doha)
• Palestine (Gaza)
• Syria (Homs, Latakia, Palmyra)
• Lebanon (Hermel, Bekaa)
•Tunisia (aid flotilla)
and now
• Qatar (Doha)
September 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Nothing is more dangerous to Netanyahu than a ceasefire. He had 2 years to bomb Hamas in Doha and he chose to do so while they were meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal.
The #Crozer8 were arrested during a sit-in demanding the re-opening of closed Crozer-Chester Hospital in Chester, PA. Hundreds of hospitals are threatened w/ the same. Part of the #NonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA National Day of Action for Medicaid. In the @inquirer.com web.archive.org/web/20250908...
Eight protesters arrested after sit-in at shuttered Crozer-Chester Medical Center
Put People First PA!, an organization that advocates for Medicaid and hospital access, organized a rally at Crozer’s Upland campus to raise awareness about the need for hospital services in Delco.
web.archive.org
September 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
The #Crozer8 were arrested during a sit-in demanding the re-opening of closed Crozer-Chester Hospital in Chester, PA. Hundreds of hospitals are threatened w/ the same. Part of the #NonviolentMedicaidArmy #NVMA National Day of Action for Medicaid. In the @inquirer.com web.archive.org/web/20250908...
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It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.
When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.
September 6, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.
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one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
Someone really needs to point out to Bret Stephens types that burning down the entire university to get to the ethnic studies department is unlikely to work, because lots of people who would otherwise throw them to the wolves now see themselves as de facto on the same side as them.
March 15, 2025 at 7:56 PM
one of the most baffling parts of this. I spent the last decade or so prepping to make the "first they came for ethnic studies" version of the Niemoller point to libs. while they did (see the CRT offensive and book bans) I absolutely did not think children's cancer researchers would be next in line
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Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.
We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.
August 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Please read our new @lancetgh.bsky.social paper "Dignity-based practice in global health research: a framework of expectations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.
We analysed complaints on knowledge practices in global health to identify expectations that affirm the dignity of marginalised knowers.
Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...
Donate to Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza, organized by Ibrahim Alwahidi
Abdallah never imagined reaching this point and asking for he… Ibrahim Alwahidi needs your support for Helping a Family That Lost Their Daughter in the War on Gaza
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August 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Please give generously to this relative of my research collaborator. #MedSky #PsychSky www.gofundme.com/f/help-abdul...
Cool paper - not sure how well the MCQ-based design and the output metrics approximate clinical reasoning, but the fact is that we have plenty of researchers asking 'how can we put AI everywhere' and too few asking 'why are we putting AI everywhere?' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Fidelity of Medical Reasoning in Large Language Models
This cross-sectional study evaluates whether the performance of large language models on medical benchmarks reflects logical reasoning or pattern recognition.
jamanetwork.com
August 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Cool paper - not sure how well the MCQ-based design and the output metrics approximate clinical reasoning, but the fact is that we have plenty of researchers asking 'how can we put AI everywhere' and too few asking 'why are we putting AI everywhere?' #MedSky jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Our organizing theory and practice as it relates to #Medicaid is grounded in the tradition of poverty abolition. You can read about it in the journal of the University of the Poor. Artwork by one of our members. universityofthepoor.org/the-nonviole...
The Nonviolent Medicaid Army: A Healthcare Revolution from Below - University of the Poor
The Nonviolent Medicaid Army: A Healthcare Revolution from Below By Nijmie Zakkiyyah Dzurinko, Karim Sariahmed, John Wessel-McCoy and Harrison Farina What We’re After: The Unity of the Poor The Univ...
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August 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Our organizing theory and practice as it relates to #Medicaid is grounded in the tradition of poverty abolition. You can read about it in the journal of the University of the Poor. Artwork by one of our members. universityofthepoor.org/the-nonviole...