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Sarah Lima

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Epidemiology postdoc researching neighborhoods and cancer at Georgetown | PhD at U Buffalo, MPH at Columbia, OSU grad go bucks https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=WixguHIAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Jul 14

I had a lovely time speaking with breast cancer advocates at the National Breast Cancer Coalition about the impact of redlining on breast cancer today

The National Breast Cancer Coalition @nbccstopbc.bsky.social · Jul 14

Event Spotlight: At a recent NBCC webinar, Dr. @smlima-mph.bsky.social made a compelling case that breast cancer outcomes cannot be fully understood—or addressed—without grappling with the legacy of structural racism and disinvestment. Read our recap: www.stopbreastcancer.org/event-spotli...

Event Spotlight: How the Discriminatory Housing Policies of the Past Shape Today’s Breast Cancer Outcomes - National Breast Cancer Coalition

During an NBCC webinar, Dr. Sarah Lima explains how historical housing policies continue to have a measurable impact on breast cancer outcomes nearly a century later.

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · May 28

It was a pleasure to share our findings on the influence of redlining on breast cancer today with Spectrum News 1. Article and interview below
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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 24

Big thank you my committee and collaborators for all their help! @tiapalermo.bsky.social, Furrina Lee, Tabassum Insaf, @helenmeier.bsky.social, Lili Tian, Henry Louis Taylor Jr, Deborah Erwin, and Heather Ochs-Balcom

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 24

You can read the paper in Cancer Epi Biomarkers and Prevention here:
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Historical Redlining and All-Cause Survival after Breast Cancer Diagnosis

AbstractBackground:. Historical redlining was a 1930s residential segregation policy, in which neighborhoods were graded according to race, class, and land use. As contemporary neighborhood profiles d...

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 24

And the good news continues — paper 1 from my dissertation is officially out!

We found living in a redlined neighborhood is associated with lower breast cancer survival, regardless of treatments or health insurance. More evidence that neighborhoods matter for health and breast cancer.

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Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 24

Thrilled to say I successfully defended my dissertation on historical redlining and #breastcancer survival yesterday! Still getting used to the “Dr. Lima.”

Thanks so much to my amazing committee, Heather Ochs-Balcom, @tiapalermo.bsky.social, Lili Tian,
Henry Louis Taylor Jr!
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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Apr 23

Congratulations to Dr. Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social for her successful dissertation defense today! Sarah’s dissertation in #Epi at the University at Buffalo used data from the New York State Cancer Registry to examine how historical redlining influences mortality among breast cancer cases.

Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social · Apr 8

I had an amazing time presenting one of my dissertation papers at ASPO! Big thank you to the reviewers and programming committee for selecting this as part of the Best of ASPO for Place and Policy and giving me the opportunity to share the importance of neighborhood on breast cancer survival.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Mar 11

Policies and programs that address poverty can have positive spillover effects – in a recent study we showed that US programs like TANF, EITC, SNAP, and Medicaid expansion reduced child abuse & neglect. Read a short overview in Public Health Post below.

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