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Nrupen Bhavsar
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Epidemiologist @Duke. Researching methodological issues associated with using EHR data, and how contextual factors impact health (i.e., social informatics). @JohnsHopkins, @TulaneSPHTM, & @JohnsHopkinsEPI alum. Runner, biker, occasional surfer .. more

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Elinne Becket, PhD @bielleogy.bsky.social · Mar 3
Friendly reminder: if you are waiting on something from a US-based scientist/reviewer/editor, please realize that we're barely making it through each day putting out non-stop fires and trying not to collapse into tears. We're trying our best, but things will take longer right now. Give grace.
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Mar 3
For folks attending AHA Epi this week, there is a Stand Up For Science Rally in Duncan Park at 4pm CST.

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Gulf States Stand Up for Science 2025
Join us on March 7, 2025, at 4 PM for Gulf States Stand Up for Science
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · Feb 22
He nails it.
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · Feb 7
New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply.
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Kate Grabowski @kategrabowski.bsky.social · Feb 7
I don’t see how #PEPFAR can survive without #USAID. We’re on the verge of 22 million people, including 6 million CHILDREN, losing access to life-saving HIV medications. This is an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe in the making.
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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · Feb 1
The entire archive of CDC datasets can be found here.

HUGE shoutout to data archivists- this work is important 👏🙌🏻

archive.org/details/2025...
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Feb 1
If you need to download the SVI and other SDOH, we have it at

sdoh.duhs.duke.edu
S.E.E.D. Health Atlas
North Carolina SDOH datasets in a searchable graphic interface
sdoh.duhs.duke.edu
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Jan 31
CDC has taken down multiple websites including the social vulnerability index.

www.atsdr.cdc.gov/place-health...
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · Jan 28
One of the biggest public health / #HIV successes of the past several decades being willfully unraveled before our very eyes. The callousness & shortsightedness are astounding.

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/27/h...
Trump Administration Halts H.I.V. Drug Distribution in Poor Countries
PEPFAR’s computer systems also are being taken offline, a sign that the program may not return, as Republican critics had hoped.
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Peter Rebeiro, PhD, MHS @prebeiro.bsky.social · Jan 23
It’s already begun; institutional leaders should be taking this seriously. Even though it was expected for anyone who read about Project 2025, it’s no less alarming. Pay attention, folks. It’s a *long* way until Nov. 2028.

www.science.org/content/arti...
Trump hits NIH with ‘devastating’ freezes on meetings, travel, communications, and hiring
Researchers facing
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Nov 29
May want to try ARIC or CARDIA
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · Nov 26
Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1k/month. A year later, nearly half had housing.

They also had fewer ER visits, nights spent in a hospital, and jail stays.

The report estimates that this reduction in public service use SAVED the city $589k.
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Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants said they had housing.
Participants in Denver's basic-income program reported having more-secure housing, though results were similar in the trial and control groups.
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Nov 21
I’m a chronic disease epidemiologist with two main lines of research:
1) how do we address methodological issues when using EHR data for epi studies.
2) linking social, environmental, and climate data to EHR data to understand how these factors impact health.
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Helen Bowes-Catton (she/her) @hbowescatton.bsky.social · Nov 17
Heartbreaking Nature article showing up to 72% rise in suicide attempts of US trans kids as result of anti-trans laws.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
State-level anti-transgender laws increase past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people in the USA - Nature Human Behaviour
From 2018 to 2022, 48 anti-transgender laws were enacted in the USA across 19 states. This study shows that these anti-transgender laws increased past-year suicide attempts among transgender and non-b...
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Elizabeth Stuart @lizstuart.bsky.social · Nov 11
My collaborator Laura Samuel is looking for a post-doc -- great fit for someone interested in social policy and quant methods (the great team also includes Bonnie Swenor, Sarah Szanton and me):
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Nrupen Bhavsar @nrupen.bsky.social · Nov 20
Congrats friend!
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Justin Lessler @justinlessler.bsky.social · Sep 19
Super excited that our ACCIDDA center at UNC was selected to be a Center of Innovation and the Coordination Center for the CDCs Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. With JHU, UF, APL and Pitt. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/unc...
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Justin Lessler @justinlessler.bsky.social · Sep 19
Super excited that our ACCIDDA center at UNC was selected to be a Center of Innovation and the Coordination Center for the CDCs Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics. With JHU, UF, APL and Pitt. sph.unc.edu/sph-news/unc...
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Justin Lessler @justinlessler.bsky.social · Aug 2
The COVID-19 Scenario Modeling Hub in the New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/02/health/covid-rise.html?smid=nytcore-android-share.

Find out more about how things might unfold this fall at https://covid19scenariomodelinghub.org/
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