Louisa Holaday, MD, MHS
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Louisa Holaday, MD, MHS
@louisaholaday.bsky.social
Primary care doc & health services researcher. I study how structural factors, neighborhood, & community influence health, including spillover effects of mass incarceration. Policy-oriented research. Trained by NYC. Now at Sinai; prior Yale, Monte, UMich
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I'm so jazzed to finally have this paper out with
@tagerai.bsky.social in @pnas.org! It's probably my favorite paper I've worked on so far. What happens when punishment is incentivized? 🧵
t.co/y5DUUGTdT9
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2508479122
t.co
August 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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Spoiler alert: Making life livable reduces crime. popular.info/p/the-secret...
The secret to Baltimore's extraordinary year
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides.
popular.info
July 24, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Medicaid saves a lot of lives.

And it's a cost-effective investment too.

www.nber.org/papers/w33719
May 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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“By 2030, Paris will have removed 60,000 parking spaces and replaced them with trees. That’s one of the goals outlined in the French capital’s new 2024-2030 Climate Plan… #Paris promises to establish 300ha of new green space by 2030, with 10% in place by 2026.”

Leadership.

#ClimateCrisis
Paris to Replace Parking Spaces With Trees
The city’s new climate plan promises to drop speed limits, repurpose traffic lanes, remove 60,000 parking spots and create urban “oases” to combat extreme heat.
www.bloomberg.com
December 11, 2024 at 5:27 PM
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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.
www.businessinsider.com/denver-basic...
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.
www.businessinsider.com
November 26, 2024 at 12:47 AM