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Data Scientist, U.S. Dept of Labor | PhD & | health policy, ethics, & public health. | gov data nerd. big fan of #rstats
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See our Forefront article out today! The *insurer-contributed* price transparency data is new and complicated. We take a first look and summarize findings, limitations, and uses.
Great team with: Yang Wang, Frank Xu, Yuchen Wang, Gerard Anderson, and
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This Sunday marks 3️⃣ 0️⃣ years of the Family and Medical Leave Act - landmark legislation that has helped millions of America's working families.
Help us celebrate!
▶️ Read worker stories: dol.gov/fmla30
▶️ Follow for facts:
▶️ Join the conversation: #FMLA30
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Spoiler alert: #Childcare expenses are too high for many American families – accounting for ~8-19% of median family income *per child*
📄 More findings from our new report on childcare prices: dol.gov/sites/dolgov/f
#CostOfCare
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NEW on the blog: Two new interactive maps show that in nearly every county, #childcare prices were high relative to family income, pricing families out of paid child care. blog.dol.gov/2023/01/24/new
#CostOfCare
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this is a wild read
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If you're looking for good examples of "what not to do" for your data science classes, this lawsuit from JP Morgan Chase is a solid case study (details on p. 4). documentcloud.org/documents/2357
Long over due, but excited to write up the project with the amazing ! In preprint, we also released An Educator’s Guide to the OCS!
#DataScience #Statistics #Education
📖 arxiv.org/abs/2301.05298
🔗opencasestudies.org
👩🏫 opencasestudies.org/OCS_Guide
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This is a cool summer fellowship opportunity at the Department of Labor Chief Evaluation Office for recent & current PhD students! Application deadline is January 20 -
This "Measuring Job Quality" report from is a very handy summary that describes and compares different data sources with variables on job benefits, leave, safety, etc. - urban.org/sites/default/
As we end 2022:
1) US nursing homes are broken
2) A roadmap exists to fix them (recent report)
3) Many of us are working on solutions (Moving Forward Coalition)
4) Key barrier is political will
Great read by on why change is coming
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happy to finally be able to share our paper on strategies for integrating SNAP outreach and enrollment with other public benefit programs, drawing from qualitative interviews with state-level leaders -
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wrote this simple-ish piano arrangement of an old xmas carol as a holiday gift for a family member 🤟🎵🎶
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Ahead of #WorldAIDSDay, a new @GlobalHealthBMJ commentary by IAS leaders reviews what #HIV response can learn from #COVID19 including:
Accelerated product development
Innovative clinical trial design
Diagnostic innovations
Use of real-time data
bit.ly/3AWkvGb
Accelerated product development
Innovative clinical trial design
Diagnostic innovations
Use of real-time data
bit.ly/3AWkvGb
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🚨We're hiring analysts 🚨 (thread below)! Come work on exciting, policy-relevant projects at the intersection of health economics, health services, and behavioral health research!
(Please consider RT-ing/amplifying!!)
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In their new Forefront article, Conner Esworthy, , , + from , + discuss how HUD and could work together to identify an approved set of nursing home innovations.
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Here are some free local covid test to treat options - no copays, no $60 CVS fee:
DC: dchealth.dc.gov/release/dc-hea
MD: covidlink.maryland.gov/content/testin
MA: mass.gov/info-details/f
CA: cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/D
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So much going on with this election but two of biggest things that happened yesterday are about #Medicaid. #1: South Dakota voted to expand! Another red state that can no longer deny the will/ preferences of its residents, who overwhelmingly want expanded access to healthcare.
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Tonight starting at 5pm I will be working with the web scraping team at the Associated Press to pull live election results from county-level board of elections web pages - you can read more about the larger AP vote counting process here:
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🎉🎉 The 2021 1-year American Community Survey microdata are out today! 🎉🎉
Use them *right now* in #rstats tidycensus with the `get_pums()` function and the arguments `survey = "acs1"` and `year = 2021`
I'll have full 2021 PUMS support (e.g. variable recoding) up on CRAN soon
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Non-academic research job alert!
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Excited to join and tomorrow October 20 at 1:00 pm ET for the launch & demo of the #DigitalBenefitsHub—a dynamic, open-source library of resources, case studies, & implementation tools for #publicbenefits professionals.
RSVP here:
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Are you a PhD who is curious about #altac jobs but doesn't want to go into big tech?
Here are 5 places to find diverse jobs in mission-oriented organizations 👇🏼
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Major data gaps, the result of underinvestment in public health, have undercut the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus and monkeypox.
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this article is so unnerving. it is simply wild that a company with as much data on people as Facebook has is making such brazenly stupid business decisions. good grief nytimes.com/2022/10/09/tec
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great piece from unpacking the challenges of figuring out optimal dose timing for flu vaccination -
🧵I want to share some thoughts about reporting on long COVID and other complex chronic illnesses. (e.g. below)
This is a thread about the ethos behind these pieces, and how I’ve approached interviewing, writing, and the rest of it. 1/
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I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood.
Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/
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Inadequate data on MPX infections (or any other infectious illness) is a problem. Makes it harder to appropriately allocate countermeasures, & opens room for misinformation/scaremongering about who the “missing“ cases are. Good data should be a top priority.
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In the latest @CDCgov Technical Report on MPX, an important and concerning point regarding what we can know about risk: the proportion of cases (reported by jurisdictions) missing gender & sexual history data has increased over time. 70% are missing data! cdc.gov/poxvirus/monke
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Still very grateful for spending two years after college as a postbac fellow --- an incredibly supportive place to start or continue a research career ✨ Highly recommend their postbac or postdoc fellowship!!
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Call for applicants!
We welcome interested and qualified candidates for fully funded two-year postbaccalaureate and postdoctoral #bioethics research fellowships.
Deadlines:
Postdoc: 12:01 AM January 1 EST
Postbac: 12:01 AM January 16 EST
Apply here: bioethicsapps.cc.nih.gov/bioethicsApp/
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I’m attending a webinar on writing a resume for a U.S. federal job application (USAJobs) and want to share what I’ve learned. Here are some tips for clearing the HR hurdle and writing a successful resume. 🧵#PostdocAppreciationWeek #postdocjobs
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We've been having late paycheck issues all. summer. long. And we don't anticipate them ending anytime soon.
So, we're hosting an event on the 13th to help you figure out what to do in the event this happens to you, either for the first time or again
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great piece from and on how to sustain and apply vaccine access developments from Covid-19 rollout to improve broader adult vaccine access healthaffairs.org/content/forefr
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Heads up! Find out about 2 ways to provide your input for revising race-ethnicity standards for federal statistics, per Chief Statistician of the U.S. Karin Orvis
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🚨🚨New in today🚨🚨
During COVID-19, US nursing homes endured 21 months with no visitors, group activities, and health system disruptions. Did this harm the well-being of residents even if they didn't get COVID?
... probably yes
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New paper w/ ! Algorithms may alter how govts decide who needs help, but contrast often isn't algorithm vs. human decision-makers; instead, it's algorithms versus blunt rules and categories (eg income < $125,000). Paper here and more below! dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114
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In a new study, McCourt data scientist @beckyj1 analyzes what happens when governments use predictive modeling to allocate critical resources. Read more: mccourt.georgetown.edu/news/how-do-po
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New: Our monkeypox data dashboard now includes vaccine data. More than 63,000 doses of monkeypox vaccine have been administered in NYC, far more than any other city in the country. The data, however, also reveal inequities in vaccine access: on.nyc.gov/3A56OU4
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The #InflationReductionAct eliminated cost-sharing for vaccines in Medicare - this will improve #healthequity (see chart in ppr) but more can be done! Read our Forefront to learn more (Great working w/Dr. Sumit Agarwal & of )
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In their new Forefront article, Sumit Agarwal, Nikhil Shankar + @MarcellaAlsan from @BrighamWomens + @harvardmed discuss how in the #InflationReductionAct of 2022 is a provision worthy of praise: the elimination of cost-sharing in #Medicare for vaccines. bit.ly/3JYCCP7
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Infectious disease transmission models are increasingly used for public health. However, using them wisely requires a basic understanding of how they work and the common pitfalls to avoid.
Our new course can help! It's *free* and covers the basics without the use of equations.
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Today, @JohnsHopkinsSPH launched a free course on infectious disease transmission for public health practitioners. This course, taught by @EmilyGurley3 and @apwez, focuses on transmission models and decision-making. publichealth.jhu.edu/2022/johns-hop
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