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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · 5d

Check out the new @socialprotection.org podcast episode featuring PRESTO’s @tiapalermo.bsky.social!

🎧 Listen here: socialprotection.org/learn/podcas...

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 8d

🎙️ 🎧 New #SPpodcast Episode – Listen now to “Social Protection Myths and Misperceptions Part 1”: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54 ▶️🎧+

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socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · 8d

Meet our guests: 🎙️ Rema Hanna, Jeffrey Cheah Professor of Southeast-Asia Studies, Harvard Kennedy School 🎙️ Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social, President at @prestopolicy.bsky.social

▶️ Tune in: tinyurl.com/SPpodcast54

📩 Subscribe to stay updated: bit.ly/SPpodcastList

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

We had the pleasure of working with an incredible group of researchers at JOOUST and are excited to see how they apply their new skills to advance research in economics, public health, and beyond. #impactevaluation #globalhealth #publichealth #economics #research

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Aug 7

Last month, PRESTO’s Tia Palermo co-facilitated an impact evaluation training at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga University of Science and Technology (JOOUST) in Kenya, as part of American Institutes for Research’s P3-Africa training and mentoring program.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Aug 5

Would like this on a shirt, please. Applicable in too many situations to count.

"Respectfully, he's making up some shit"

~Jolanda Jones, Texas State Representative

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

She presented how adverse childhood events influence program impacts of a cash plus intervention on youth productive outcomes in Tanzania, as part of a study done in collaboration with PRESTO under AIR’s P3 mentoring program.

#uniceftanzania #cashplus #TransferProject #Tanzania #ESAAfrica25

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today Dr. Monica Kauky, University of Dar es Salaam, presented at the 2025 Economic Science Association Africa regional conference in Nairobi.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 25

Big wins for Working Families Party in New York's 2 biggest cities last night - NYC & #Buffalo!

Working Families Party 🐺 @workingfamilies.org · Jun 25

People are tired of a status quo that isn’t working for them.

Zohran Mamdani’s campaign has sent shockwaves across the country and shown what’s possible when candidates have the courage to stay true to their values and speak authentically to working people.

Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · Jun 25

Mamdani: Tonight, we made history. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it almost seems impossible until it is done. My friends, we have done it. I will be your Democratic nominee for the mayor of New York City.

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

This research was conducted jointly with PRESTO researcher @tiapalermo.bsky.social & co-authors at @unicef.org Innocenti, under @airinforms.bsky.social P3 Mentoring program.

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 23

Kicking off an exciting week at the 2025 Africa Evidence Summit! Dr. Dickson Wandeda (University of Nairobi) presented long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer on insurance uptake, morbidity & health seeking.
#AES2025 #cashtransfers #TransferProject

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 14

The US administration has just demanded that UNICEF “re-focus on its core mandate of assisting children, including those impacted by environmental events such as natural disasters, without using the rigid casting of climate as a root cause”

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · Jun 4

Join us tomorrow!

socialprotection.org @socialprotection.org · Jun 4

🚨 Join us on 5 June for the #SPorgWebinar ‘Myth vs. Reality: The Impact of Cash Transfers on Gender Equality in Africa’, organised by UNICEF and PRESTO.

🕛 8:00 GMT-4 (EST),
🔗👥 Meet the participants and register: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#SocialProtection #GenderEquality

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Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · Jun 2

(1/2) We’ve enjoyed a productive spring so far! ⭐

A key highlight: Last month Dickson Wandeda and @tiapalermo.bsky.social presented at NYU’s Cash Transfer Lab on the long-term impacts of Ghana’s LEAP 1000 cash transfer program on health and insurance uptake.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 30

Join me as I busy the myths on gender and cash transfers with a fabulous co-panel.

Policy Research Solutions (PRESTO) @prestopolicy.bsky.social · May 30

Mark your calendars! Join PRESTO next week on June 5th as we team up with UNICEF to bust myths on gender and cash transfers in Africa.
Register here: tinyurl.com/2hay2nmh

#cashtransfers #genderequality #socialprotection #SPorgWebinar #Africa @socialprotection.org

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

Risks factors include higher likelihood of living near highways, factories or other industrial plants, increasing exposure of pollution, carcinogens and other health risk factors. In turn, living in redlined neighborhoods is associated with lower survival after breast cancer diagnosis.

Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

This century-old housing/mortgage policy has reinforced segregation & structural disadvantage through today. Poverty affects lifestyle & environmental risk factors.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 28

Spectrum News in Buffalo, NY featured work by Dr. Sarah Lima @smlima-mph.bsky.social highlighting how redlining policies reduce survival among women with breast cancer.

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 8

science, stats & Taylor Swift references - analysis by Dr. Dowd never disappoints. ;)

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Tia Palermo @tiapalermo.bsky.social · May 8

"as America declines & becomes more...embroiled in authoritarian ideology,...the emerging tool of choice minimizes active and engaged participation in learning...and developing a personal sense of curiosity and critical thinking."

- @jysexton.bsky.social on AI
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