Joseph Dov Bruch
@josephdovbruch.bsky.social
Researching the financialization of health.
Assistant professor at @UChicago
https://voices.uchicago.edu/josephdovbruch/
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Assistant professor at @UChicago
https://voices.uchicago.edu/josephdovbruch/
🏳️🌈
New paper with @chloethurston.bsky.social
Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQKm-CmV9...
Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQKm-CmV9...
authors.elsevier.com
January 12, 2026 at 6:55 PM
New paper with @chloethurston.bsky.social
Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQKm-CmV9...
Financial epidemiology: Linking financialization to population health
authors.elsevier.com/a/1mQKm-CmV9...
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Despite legal resident status and having been charged with no crime, our Georgetown colleague Badar Khan Suri has been designated a 'high risk' prisoner and for that reason gets only two hours of outdoor time PER WEEK. His traumatized son "cries all the time" and has ceased speaking.
Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown. Now He's Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail
Badar Khan Suri Is a Peace Scholar at Georgetown. Now He’s Being Held as a High-Risk Threat in ICE Jail
As the cases of international students and activists facing deportation begin to play out in the courts, Georgetown professor Nader Hashemi visited an ICE jail in Texas to speak with his colleague Badar...
www.democracynow.org
May 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Despite legal resident status and having been charged with no crime, our Georgetown colleague Badar Khan Suri has been designated a 'high risk' prisoner and for that reason gets only two hours of outdoor time PER WEEK. His traumatized son "cries all the time" and has ceased speaking.
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April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
April 30, 2025 at 7:08 PM
April 28, 2025: Migrants are making SOS signs out of their bodies so drones can see them at our country's concentration camps.
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US based scientists are not ok.
April 25, 2025 at 1:24 AM
US based scientists are not ok.
This has been one of the most exciting research collaborations I've been part of! Our forthcoming article in Signs examines an emerging form of "feminism" that pursues gender equity through financial investment.
🌟Scholars and activists interested in women’s health, femtech, and capitalism.🌟 Our new piece, forthcoming in Signs, introduces the concept of “investment feminism” as a useful way to understand how financialization shapes the conversation around femtech and gender health equity.
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
tinyurl.com/ffcs67h
Investment Feminism and Women's Health
This essay introduces the term investment feminism to characterize the phenomenon in which financial actors position investment as a powerful lever for advancing gender equity. We offer investment fem...
dash.harvard.edu
April 2, 2025 at 4:53 PM
This has been one of the most exciting research collaborations I've been part of! Our forthcoming article in Signs examines an emerging form of "feminism" that pursues gender equity through financial investment.
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CNN reporting that everyone who administers LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) has been terminated. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
‘It’s a bloodbath’: Massive wave of job cuts underway at US health agencies | CNN
A massive wave of job cuts got underway at US health agencies Tuesday, with some employees receiving early-morning emails saying their jobs were eliminated and some unable to access the building when ...
www.cnn.com
April 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
CNN reporting that everyone who administers LIHEAP (Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program) has been terminated. The program provides about $4 billion to help millions of Americans with their heating and cooling bills.
www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
www.cnn.com/2025/04/01/h...
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Read this article comparing universities that cave to Trump, like Columbia, to universities that don't, like Wesleyan under the leadership of Michael Roth. Roth gets it.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
(The article is a week old, but I just saw it.)
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
(The article is a week old, but I just saw it.)
Columbia’s Capitulation, and Wesleyan’s Pushback
Today on TAP: Appeasing dictators only invites more of the same. More university presidents should know that.
prospect.org
March 31, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Read this article comparing universities that cave to Trump, like Columbia, to universities that don't, like Wesleyan under the leadership of Michael Roth. Roth gets it.
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
(The article is a week old, but I just saw it.)
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
(The article is a week old, but I just saw it.)
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Macedo and Lee's book "In COVID's Wake" has gotten the red-carpet treatment, mostly because it tells people what they want to hear: the pandemic wasn't so bad, we didn't need to respond in the way we did and the blame lies with the "experts." But in fact, this is agit-prop, not scholarship.
One of the best rejoinders to the claims in the book by Macedo and Lee was written by @dwallacewells.bsky.social for the @nytimes.com. I urge people to read it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2024/11/27/o...
Opinion | The False Premise Shaping Trump’s Public Health Picks
Nobody got Covid totally right. But the contrarians got it mostly wrong.
www.nytimes.com
March 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Macedo and Lee's book "In COVID's Wake" has gotten the red-carpet treatment, mostly because it tells people what they want to hear: the pandemic wasn't so bad, we didn't need to respond in the way we did and the blame lies with the "experts." But in fact, this is agit-prop, not scholarship.
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cannot stress how much the DOGE experience has proven this wildly true. coding and quant skills in a vacuum can be useful, but if you combine that with domain expertise you can really get stuff done.
without domain expertise you'll probably just fuck it up.
without domain expertise you'll probably just fuck it up.
my actual unironic advice to undergrads is to major in something you're actually passionate about/interested in, and then try and *minor* in either CS or stats. you would be surprised how how much being the person who knows a substantive thing and can do some basic computer/stats stuff can pay off
March 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
cannot stress how much the DOGE experience has proven this wildly true. coding and quant skills in a vacuum can be useful, but if you combine that with domain expertise you can really get stuff done.
without domain expertise you'll probably just fuck it up.
without domain expertise you'll probably just fuck it up.
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If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 1:50 AM
If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire.
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Federal cuts to #Medicaid could have implications for hospitals - check out new brief: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Hospitals | KFF
We explain the role of Medicaid for hospitals, including how much spending on hospital care comes from Medicaid, the share of births covered by the program, and how Medicaid expansion has impacted hos...
www.kff.org
March 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Federal cuts to #Medicaid could have implications for hospitals - check out new brief: www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
March 4, 2025 at 3:16 PM
SCOTUS holds that the EPA *cannot* order cities to maintain acceptable water quality standards by limiting the discharge—usually sewage—that they dump into nearby bodies of water (like oceans and bays). The four women justices, dissenting, say that's ridiculous. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
www.nytimes.com
February 28, 2025 at 3:06 AM
“People will die,” said Dr. @ckyobutungi.bsky.social, ED of @aphrc.bsky.social, “but we will never know, because even the programs to count the dead are cut.”
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
@stephanienolen.bsky.social covers the many cruel & dangerous cuts to lifesaving USAID projects.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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"In all, around 1,270 are being let go from the agency out of 2,800 probationary workers. The cuts amount to around 1 in 10 of the CDC's staff." www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...
CDC's "disease detectives" halved as part of DOGE cuts at health agencies
More than 1 in 10 of the health agency's workers are being let go, including an entire new class of CDC Epidemic Intelligence Service officers.
www.cbsnews.com
February 18, 2025 at 4:14 AM
"In all, around 1,270 are being let go from the agency out of 2,800 probationary workers. The cuts amount to around 1 in 10 of the CDC's staff." www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-dis...
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The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Kennedy’s Lawyer Has Asked the F.D.A. to Revoke Approval of the Polio Vaccine
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2024 at 11:18 AM
The lawyer helping Robert F. Kennedy Jr. pick federal health officials for the incoming Trump administration has petitioned the government to revoke its approval of the polio vaccine, which for decades has protected millions of people from a virus that can cause paralysis or death.
Students are ❤️ing and ‼️ing my Outlook emails. Is this the new normal?
December 1, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Students are ❤️ing and ‼️ing my Outlook emails. Is this the new normal?
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Jared Polis, my former student, challenges Democrats to support RFK Jr. on some policies (like drug prices), while opposing RFK Jr on vaccinations. Jared, here’s the problem: Under Trump, challenges to corporations are likely to die. Under RFK’s vaccination policies, people are going to die
"I try to look at the glass as half full" -- Jared Polis on his support for RFK Jr
November 25, 2024 at 3:25 PM
Jared Polis, my former student, challenges Democrats to support RFK Jr. on some policies (like drug prices), while opposing RFK Jr on vaccinations. Jared, here’s the problem: Under Trump, challenges to corporations are likely to die. Under RFK’s vaccination policies, people are going to die
Just hit my out of pocket maximum with a month to spare. About to commit a hideous amount of moral hazard.
November 22, 2024 at 4:18 PM
Just hit my out of pocket maximum with a month to spare. About to commit a hideous amount of moral hazard.
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Today is transgender day of remembrance. GLAAD defines this as "an annual observance on 11/20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence." Our transgender colleagues, friends, students, family members need us to stand up for them.
November 21, 2024 at 5:10 AM
Today is transgender day of remembrance. GLAAD defines this as "an annual observance on 11/20 that honors the memory of the transgender people whose lives were lost in acts of anti-transgender violence." Our transgender colleagues, friends, students, family members need us to stand up for them.