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Nandita Perumal, PhD
@nanditaperumal.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor, Dept of Epi/Bios, University of South Carolina. Perinatal & Pediatric Epidemiology | Global Nutrition | Maternal & Child Health. 🇨🇦 in 🇺🇸. Views are my own.
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Nandita Perumal, PhD @nanditaperumal.bsky.social · Dec 8
Fascinating.
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The Atlantic @theatlantic.com · Dec 7
Food deserts “didn’t materialize around the country for no reason,” Stacy Mitchell writes. “Something happened. That something was a specific federal policy change in the 1980s.” theatln.tc/1x4S9FZr
The Great Grocery Squeeze
How a federal policy change in the 1980s created the modern food desert
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Nandita Perumal, PhD @nanditaperumal.bsky.social · Dec 8
What an incredible offer! I've loved using Epidemiology by Design in my teaching. :)
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Daniel Westreich @epidbydesign.bsky.social · Jul 28
If you teach epidemiology and might be interested in using my textbook (EPIDEMIOLOGY BY DESIGN) --

I will send you ALL MY TEACHING MATERIALS (lecture slides; practice problems; exercises; exams + keys; sample syllabi...).

Just ask! And also www.epidemiologybydesign.com
Epidemiology By Design
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Nandita Perumal, PhD @nanditaperumal.bsky.social · Nov 26
It was such a pleasure! Wonderful to meet faculty and give a talk at McGill. Thank you Marilyn Ahun for the invite and to EBOH/CORE at RI-MUHC for hosting me!
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Nov 25
Pleased to meet @nanditaperumal.bsky.social in person! She is a proud @mcgillu.bsky.social alumna, and an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at USC
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Dec 18
We are excited to announce on 2024 @mcgillu @McGillGHP @McGill_SPGH Summer Institutes in Global Health, May 21 - June 14, 2024

15 courses on a vareity of topics

Low fees for LMICs and fee waivers

Please apply!

www.mcgill.ca/summerinstit...
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · Oct 20
Glocal is global: reimagining the training of global health students in high-income countries

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Glocal is global: reimagining the training of global health students in high-income countries
Traditionally, training students in global health from high-income countries (HICs) has focused mostly on health problems of the Global South, and on trainees travelling to low-income and middle-incom...
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Linda Kachuri @lindakachuri.bsky.social · Oct 16
Trying to be better with sharing work on here 😅
Check out our paper that identifies novel immune-mediated risk factors for glioma. We also found interesting genetic associations with survival and features of the tumor immune microenvironment 🧬 🧠
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medRxivpreprint @medrxivpreprint.bsky.social · Oct 16
Genetic predisposition to altered blood cell homeostasis is associated with glioma risk and survival https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.15.23296448v1
Genetic predisposition to altered blood cell homeostasis is associated with glioma risk and survival https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.10.15.23296448v1
Glioma is a highly fatal brain tumor comprised of molecular subtypes with distinct clinical trajecto
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Nandita Perumal, PhD @nanditaperumal.bsky.social · Oct 9
Our recent study published in the @BMJ using individual participant data from over 100,000 pregnancies in low- and middle-income countries shows that suboptimal gestational weight gain is associated with a wide range of adverse neonatal outcomes. Dive into the paper here: www.bmj.com/content/382/...
Suboptimal gestational weight gain and neonatal outcomes in low and middle income countries: individ...
Objective To estimate the associations between gestational weight gain (GWG) during pregnancy and neonatal outcomes in low and middle income countries. Design Individual participant data meta-analysi...
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