Soham 🏳️🌈
@soham17.bsky.social
PhD Candidate at UChicago Dept. of Public Health Sciences
Health economist, health services and health policy researcher, medicaid, opioid-use policy.
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Health economist, health services and health policy researcher, medicaid, opioid-use policy.
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Drug-related deaths among older adults have quadrupled in the last 20 years, yet most never receive treatment. Stigma, lack of tailored care and other barriers are costing lives. Appreciated the opportunity to write about this with @haroldpollack.bsky.social and Mari.
Great to write this piece with Soham Sinha and Mari Mackiewicz || Invisible and Overlooked (Again): Older Adults, Ageism, and Substance Misuse www.milbank.org/quarterly/op...
Invisible and Overlooked (Again): Older Adults, Ageism, and Substance Misuse | Milbank Memorial Fund
Given common physiological and social changes associated with aging, older adults face greater risks of substance-related harms than do younger adults who experience the same patterns of substance use...
www.milbank.org
May 5, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Drug-related deaths among older adults have quadrupled in the last 20 years, yet most never receive treatment. Stigma, lack of tailored care and other barriers are costing lives. Appreciated the opportunity to write about this with @haroldpollack.bsky.social and Mari.
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On the Cliff at Pourville, Clear Weather, 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1135337
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1135337
March 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
On the Cliff at Pourville, Clear Weather, 1882
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1135337
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/1135337
Another day, another expedition into flagging states with questionable data in the TAF files
March 18, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Another day, another expedition into flagging states with questionable data in the TAF files
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Ok, I've seen enough. Can we just fast forward to this part, please?
March 13, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Ok, I've seen enough. Can we just fast forward to this part, please?
Starting the oscars with a prayer:
🕯️ Fernanda Torres 🕯️
🕯️ Anora 🕯️
🕯️ Adrien Brody 🕯️
🕯️ Sean Baker 🕯️
🕯️ Fernanda Torres 🕯️
🕯️ Anora 🕯️
🕯️ Adrien Brody 🕯️
🕯️ Sean Baker 🕯️
March 3, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Starting the oscars with a prayer:
🕯️ Fernanda Torres 🕯️
🕯️ Anora 🕯️
🕯️ Adrien Brody 🕯️
🕯️ Sean Baker 🕯️
🕯️ Fernanda Torres 🕯️
🕯️ Anora 🕯️
🕯️ Adrien Brody 🕯️
🕯️ Sean Baker 🕯️
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The United States has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world. Full stop.
Compared with other countries, our approach to reducing overdose deaths is fragmented and inadequate.
It’s time to consider pursuing national harm-reduction policies, as 109 other countries have done.
Compared with other countries, our approach to reducing overdose deaths is fragmented and inadequate.
It’s time to consider pursuing national harm-reduction policies, as 109 other countries have done.
U.S. Overdose Deaths Remain Higher Than in Other Countries — Trend-Tracking and Harm-Reduction Policies Could Help
Compared with other countries, the U.S. approach to reducing overdose deaths is fragmented and inadequate.
www.commonwealthfund.org
January 9, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The United States has the highest rate of overdose deaths in the world. Full stop.
Compared with other countries, our approach to reducing overdose deaths is fragmented and inadequate.
It’s time to consider pursuing national harm-reduction policies, as 109 other countries have done.
Compared with other countries, our approach to reducing overdose deaths is fragmented and inadequate.
It’s time to consider pursuing national harm-reduction policies, as 109 other countries have done.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
December 27, 2024 at 4:54 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. saw an 18.1% increase in homelessness this year, with more than 770,000 people counted as homeless.
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What do #workers think of #unions? @awhf.bsky.social, William Kimball & Thomas Kochan @mitiwer.bsky.social show that workers are willing to join and financially support organizations currently unavailable under US law and practice beyond traditional unions.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
December 19, 2024 at 11:16 AM
What do #workers think of #unions? @awhf.bsky.social, William Kimball & Thomas Kochan @mitiwer.bsky.social show that workers are willing to join and financially support organizations currently unavailable under US law and practice beyond traditional unions.
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
doi.org/10.1177/0019...
After a year of dating the Medicaid claims data, we're taking things to the next level... we're imputing managed care spending 📊💸
#healthpolicysky
#healthpolicysky
December 3, 2024 at 1:43 PM
After a year of dating the Medicaid claims data, we're taking things to the next level... we're imputing managed care spending 📊💸
#healthpolicysky
#healthpolicysky
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Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
November 26, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Remember when "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" tried to teach us about tariffs and no one was paying attention
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every social science project repo README should have to begin with "abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
November 20, 2024 at 7:28 AM
every social science project repo README should have to begin with "abandon all hope, ye who enter here"
Running a 5k in Delhi — while the AQI was 439 — has to be one of my dumber decisions this year. Here are some pictures that show just how bad it really was 😷
November 17, 2024 at 4:48 AM
Running a 5k in Delhi — while the AQI was 439 — has to be one of my dumber decisions this year. Here are some pictures that show just how bad it really was 😷
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Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Interest on the National Debt $660,000,000,000
Utility $150
Wow OMG look at all the waste I, 170IQ supergenius Elon Musk, have discovered within the US government
Data $150
Rent $800
Interest on the National Debt $660,000,000,000
Utility $150
Wow OMG look at all the waste I, 170IQ supergenius Elon Musk, have discovered within the US government
there's literally like 3 fucking items here that actually impact the final tally here, the rest is just pennies of pennies of pennies on the dollar
how are they going to do fucking anything when they can't even do basic accounting math competently
how are they going to do fucking anything when they can't even do basic accounting math competently
November 15, 2024 at 4:13 AM
Food $200
Data $150
Rent $800
Interest on the National Debt $660,000,000,000
Utility $150
Wow OMG look at all the waste I, 170IQ supergenius Elon Musk, have discovered within the US government
Data $150
Rent $800
Interest on the National Debt $660,000,000,000
Utility $150
Wow OMG look at all the waste I, 170IQ supergenius Elon Musk, have discovered within the US government
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the article i helped author is now live in annals of family medicine!!
we evaluated a quality improvement learning collaborative around perinatal and primary care in 6 FQHCs in chicago and found it can help with care delivery!
we evaluated a quality improvement learning collaborative around perinatal and primary care in 6 FQHCs in chicago and found it can help with care delivery!
A Mixed Methods Evaluation of a Quality Improvement Model to Optimize Perinatal and Primary Care in ...
PURPOSE Many maternal deaths occur beyond the acute birth encounter. There are opportunities for improving maternal health outcomes through facilitated quality improvement efforts in community setting...
www.annfammed.org
January 23, 2024 at 7:01 PM
the article i helped author is now live in annals of family medicine!!
we evaluated a quality improvement learning collaborative around perinatal and primary care in 6 FQHCs in chicago and found it can help with care delivery!
we evaluated a quality improvement learning collaborative around perinatal and primary care in 6 FQHCs in chicago and found it can help with care delivery!
Presented my dissertation ideas to the at the department worskshop today. They didn’t hate it, I didn’t have breakdown and it wasn’t a ‘complete’ (little maybe) disaster.
Please clap 🙃👏🏻
Please clap 🙃👏🏻
January 10, 2024 at 11:48 PM
Presented my dissertation ideas to the at the department worskshop today. They didn’t hate it, I didn’t have breakdown and it wasn’t a ‘complete’ (little maybe) disaster.
Please clap 🙃👏🏻
Please clap 🙃👏🏻
At this point I am basically in a toxic relationship with Medicaid claims data
December 1, 2023 at 11:34 PM
At this point I am basically in a toxic relationship with Medicaid claims data
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“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
November 4, 2023 at 12:30 AM
“If you’re angry about THIS, but not about THAT—“
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Bro I’m gonna have to stop you there, I am angry about so many things all of the time, I have never in my life been angry about just one thing at a time, my capacity for “things to be angry about” is as wide and as deep as the sea
Okay I’m doing it, wish me luck 🧿
October 25, 2023 at 1:03 PM
Okay I’m doing it, wish me luck 🧿
#HealthPolicy overlords and nerds, My twitter was suspended two months ago. So giving this a try, to stay connected with this awesome community, and reading all your very important and amazing work :)
October 24, 2023 at 3:45 AM
#HealthPolicy overlords and nerds, My twitter was suspended two months ago. So giving this a try, to stay connected with this awesome community, and reading all your very important and amazing work :)