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Anne Sosin

@annesosin.bsky.social

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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 · Jun 3

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....

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...

www.healthaffairs.org

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 10h

“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...

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

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 4d

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

Alice Miranda Ollstein @alicemiranda.bsky.social · 4d

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

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 6d

@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

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 7d

“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...

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 8d

Enthusiastically shared by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural is full of innovation, if people actually look.
#PowerOfRuralCats

Aallyah Wright @aallyahpatrice.bsky.social · 8d

From opening grocery stores to launching online delivery services, I traveled to rural Mississippi to highlight the work of two Black women who are reimagining how their communities eat and thrive.

This is part of the RNN's "Sowing Resilience" series.

capitalbnews.org/black-women-...

The Black Women Driving a Food Revolution in Rural Mississippi

From grocery stores to food distribution services, Black women are leading efforts to feed their communities.

capitalbnews.org

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Gbenga Ajilore @gbenga-ajilore.bsky.social · 8d

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. stated that the $50B Rural Health Transformation Fund is the biggest infusion of federal dollars into rural health.

That is untrue - Medicaid has been, to the tune of roughly $180B per year. Read why the RHTF won't help (with @aorris.bsky.social): www.cbpp.org/blog/rural-h...

Rural Health Fund Will Do Little to Offset Harm to Rural Providers in Republican Megabill | Center on Budget and Policy Priorities

Medicaid provides health care for millions of people in rural areas and is vital to keeping rural hospitals financially stable. The recently enacted Republican megabill, which will cut $1.1 trillion.....

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Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.social · 21d

Equity in science is still a beautiful lie. After 27 years in Colombia — shaping me as a person and scientist — I begin a new chapter as Distinguished Researcher @csic.es in Spain. Yet I learnt that geography, networks & prestige still outweigh merit, favoring privileged colleagues, conscious or not

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 10d

Exactly. Manufacturing doubt—often with the invisible intent of undermining scientific experts and institutions and creating markets for “alternatives”—is often the goal.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 11d

excellent and concise analysis of yet another massive threat to rural health care. from @maxjordan.bsky.social, who is always worth reading

Killing Rural Hospitals by Executive Order

The government claims it cares about rural healthcare. Its actions say otherwise.

adversereaction.substack.com

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 13d

The “beautiful “ bill is a death knell for rural health infrastructure, hisses Sam the rural health advoCATe. Health care is requirement for a healthy community, not a gift for those deemed worthy.
#PowerOfRuralCats

apparitionandme.bsky.social @apparitionandme.bsky.social · 13d

www.rawstory.com/not-an-accid...

'Not an accident': Trump's GOP gets blame as rural hospitals start to close

Hospitals and healthcare clinics across the US have been announcing layoffs, service cuts, and closures in the weeks since Republicans passed a budget law that’s estimated to slash spending on Medicai...

www.rawstory.com

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 14d

This broken record would like to remind everyone that we can hold bad actors to account and critique harmful policies and practices without resorting to stigma, ableism, and disparaging stereotypes.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 15d

jokes like this reinforce and spread addiction stigma, and that stigma is a huge reason why they successfully gutted public health work addressing addiction and overdoses. and it’s why they’re targeting adhd medications next. this isn’t funny. it’s harmful

Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 15d

Look, it’s Heroin and Adderall ganging up on Tylenol.

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Beth Howard @jbethiejean.bsky.social · 15d

Song For a Hard-Hit People: A Memoir of Antiracist Solidarity From a Coal Miner’s Daughter will be released on April 21st 2026 from @haymarketbooks.org. In the midst of hateful divisive rhetoric, violent repression, and grifters writing elegies, let this one be a song. ❤️‍🔥 Pre-orders are open!

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Eric Michael Garcia @ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 15d

For no particular reason whatsoever, I wrote a whole book about why society should stop trying to cure #ActuallyAutistic people and instead focus more on creating a better world and society for them. You can buy it here.
www.harpercollins.com/products/wer...

We're Not Broken

“This book is a message from autistic people to their parents, friends, teachers, coworkers and doctors showing what life is like on the spectrum. It’s also...

www.harpercollins.com

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 15d

Congratulations! I pre-ordered it and can't wait to read it, but I wish it were available now to share with students.

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 22d

You're the best.

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@janprobst.bsky.social @janprobst.bsky.social · 23d

Endorsed by Sam the rural health advoCATe. Rural America is many places and many kinds of people. The @brookings.edu report linked below contains a good review of the racial/ethnic makeup of rural.
#PowerOfRuralCats
www.brookings.edu/articles/map...

A map of the US. Counties with large minoritized populations are shown Black populations are largely in the South, Latino in the West, AI/AN in Alaska and the upper Midwest, and Asian in Hawaii.

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 23d

Please stop making rural hospitals political pawns. Treating rural hospitals as political currency sends a message that rural communities do not matter, hardens already large divides, and punishes populations that are far more diverse than most on social media would like to acknowledge.

Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 25d

Why are *Democrats* considering asking for rural hospital funding? That's a problem Republicans created for their own base.

Democrats should oppose rural funding as leverage to get things for their own voters, the same way Republicans attack urban areas because rural voters demand it.

Democratic Support by Population Density Rank from https://catalist.us/whathappened2024/

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Clayton Page Aldern @compatibilism.bsky.social · 24d

One reason Gregg Colburn and I wrote HOMELESSNESS IS A HOUSING PROBLEM was to push back against the dehumanization of people without housing. Kilmeade’s rhetoric is a direct consequence of a society that defines disposable underclasses

Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 24d

Some conservatives are saying that Kilmeade’s “Just kill them” comment is less horrifying when you see it in context.

So here’s a longer clip, where you hear almost 4 minutes of Fox couch banter before he says it.

And, uh, it’s not much better. At all.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSPa...

Kilmeade talking about Decarlos Brown

YouTube video by Chuck Ross

www.youtube.com

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 24d

Grateful for your leadership (as always).

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Margot Kushel MD @mkushel.bsky.social · 24d

Let’s fight for a society that actually values people and provides them with the safety and security they need. And let’s call out those who use dehumanizing rhetoric. Even those whose rhetoric and actions fall short of these truly horrific examples.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24d

To build a broader progressive coalition, I'd argue that we need to do a better job of helping people to see how policies that disproportionately help the most vulnerable among us will leave us all in a better place long term.

Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 24d

Making healthcare low-/no-cost and universally accessible would also help to reduce childcare shortages. Because one reason that childcare centers struggle to find enough workers is that they can't afford to offer health benefits. And they don't have to, because the ACA exempts small firms.

Hakeem Jeffries @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social · 24d

Healthcare is a right that should be affordable and available for all Americans.

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 25d

Read @jeffsharlet.bsky.social (always).

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Anne Sosin @annesosin.bsky.social · 25d

We can reject violence without legitimizing agendas built on bigotry. We can affirm the sense of institutional abandonment and discontent leading many to MAHA without forming unholy alliances with actors who prey on them. Soft bigotry & zero-sum thinking will not save us. Our moral imagination will.

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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 27d

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

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