An Arm and a Leg @armandalegshow.bsky.social A podcast about why health care costs so freaking much, and what we can (maybe) do about it, in partnership with @kffhealthnews.org and @kuow.org
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Angela B. Ryan @angela-b-ryan.bsky.social Lawyer. Legal Educator. Mother.
Writing about medicine, motherhood, law
& what it takes to survive the system.
Author of Dispatches from the Middle
Contributing Author to the ABA Journal & Law.com
Laura Cuesta @lauracuesta.bsky.social Associate Professor at Rutgers University School of Social Work. I study family change, international approaches to child and family policy, poverty & inequality. Proud Colombian. Immigrant https://go.rutgers.edu/lauracuesta
Nolan M. Kavanagh @nolankavanagh.bsky.social I study health, policy, and politics • Emergency medicine resident at Beth Israel / Harvard Medical School • MD, PhD, MPH • 🏳️🌈 • he/him/his
nolankavanagh.com
Vero Jimeno @verojimeno.bsky.social Professor of Victimology at University of Castilla-La Mancha /
Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence (G-PIVIA)
Member of the Criminology Research Center (UCLM)
Elise V. Bailey @evbailey.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at University of Utah. Mental health, health disparities, health geography.
https://eliseabril.github.io/portfolio/
Jen L, PhD @drjkyl.bsky.social Executive Editor/Team Lead Open Access Science & Medicine Journals Sage Publishing
Opinions = mine
http://linkedin.com/in/jlovick-editor
#oncology #cancerresearch #medicine #biology #cardiology #neurology #microbiology #publichealth #healthcare
New Jersey State Policy Lab @policylab.rutgers.edu New Jersey Policy Lab conducts rigorous evidence-based research to raise the quality of data used by state policymakers to address the needs of NJ communities.
https://policylab.rutgers.edu/
Pamela Metz @pamelametz.bsky.social Founding Associate Director, Harvard Inequality & Social Policy (1998-2021). Director of Chapter Development @scholars.org (2022-2025).
UConn Collaboratory on School & Child Health @uconncsch.bsky.social Facilitating innovative and impactful connections across research, policy, and practice arenas to advance school and child health. csch.uconn.edu #WholeChild #EduSky
Matt Berkley @mattberkley.bsky.social Sentientism, food policy for desired/anticipated consumption patterns, plant-based food for climate, consumption behaviour, history and reporting of global goals, framing.
Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law @jhppl.bsky.social Journal of Health Politics, Policy, and Law (JHPPL). Publishing work on health policy initiation, formulation, and implementation, and relationships between government and health—past, present, and future.
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Research Institute @chopresearch.bsky.social At CHOP Research, we advance children's health by turning scientific discovery into medical innovation 🏥🩺
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia @childrensphila.bsky.social Children's Hospital of Philadelphia is one of the leading pediatric hospitals & research facilities in the world.
PolicyLab at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia @policylabchop.bsky.social Center of emphasis within CHOP’s Research Institute informing children’s health policy & practice with quality research
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Jacob Ware @jacobware.bsky.social Studying terrorism and extremism. Opinions are my own and RT ≠ endorsement.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/god-guns-and-sedition-far-right-terrorism-in-america/20097522?ean=9780231211222&next=t
Dan Martin @danmartin7.bsky.social Writing, Rhetoric, Multimodality. History of composition & standardizing writing; feedback & assessment; and multimodal pedagogies. Digital rhetoric & disinformation.
Reviews Coeditor @kairostp.bsky.social
JJ Cutuli @jjcutuli.bsky.social I'm a scientist studying resilience w/ children & families who experience adversity, like homelessness & loss.
RG: www.researchgate.net/profile/J-J-Cutuli/publications
Substack: https://joewillard.substack.com/
Children's Health Fund @chfund.bsky.social CHF leads a national network of partners bringing comprehensive #healthcare to children in under-resourced communities.
Dolores Fernández Pérez @doloresfernandez.bsky.social Psychologist | Assistant Professor (PhD) in Criminology at UCLM (Spain)| Criminology Research Center 🎓🔍 | Research Group on Victimology and Psychopathology of Childhood and Adolescence | Passionate about human behavior, plot twists & dark minds 🎬🕵️♀️
Marta Bornstein (she/her) @martajb.bsky.social Human | Assistant Professor | Mixed-methods public health researcher and social scientist
Opinions=mine
Kerry MacQuarrie @kerrymacqua.bsky.social Demographer. Sociologist. Health and rights advocate. Opinionated woman. she/her/Dr.
JWSey @jwsey.bsky.social Epidemiologist | abortion access measurement | Research Scientist @WiscCORE | Formerly @IbisRH @BUSPH_epiPhD | Vermonter | she/her | Posts are my own
@maria-steenland.bsky.social @maria-steenland.bsky.social
JAMA Health Forum @jamahealthforum.com JAMA Health Forum is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.
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Teri Nava-Anderson @thephddoula.bsky.social Perinatal health advocate, community doula trainer, educator, historian, adoptee, chronically sleep deprived
Eden Bernstein @edenbernstein.bsky.social Hospitalist and alcohol use disorder researcher @cudivhospmed.bsky.social
JAMA Internal Medicine @jamainternalmed.com JAMA Internal Medicine is a member of the JAMA Network, a consortium of peer-reviewed, general medical and specialty publications.
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Eric Widera, MD @ewidera.bsky.social Professor of #Medicine @UCSF focused on #Geriatrics, #Hospice, #Palliative care, and #meded. Co-creator of https://eprognosis.ucsf.edu. Podcasts at http://geripal.org 🇺🇦
Publications: https://profiles.ucsf.edu/eric.widera
Charlie Roscoe, Ph.D. @charlieroscoe.bsky.social Environmental Epidemiologist 🍃Assistant Prof at OHSU-PSU School of Public Health & OHSU Knight Cancer Institute💚 Trained at Harvard Chan SPH, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & Imperial College London🇬🇧 I’m into environmental health equity 🌳❤️ Nature is healing🍃
Isabel García Valdivia, Ph.D. @igarciavaldivia.bsky.social asst. prof. | Ph.D. @UCBerkeley | Immigration. Life course/Aging. Race/Ethnicity. Family. Educator. Pup-mom. Retweets ≠ endorsement. My takes are my own.
Sarah Damaske @sarahdamaske.bsky.social Sociology Professor. Studying gender, work, family, and inequality. Currently: precarity, job quality, and the stalled gender revolution. Author of #TollsofUncertainty, #FortheFamily #Science&Art of Interviewing. ✍️ @time @cnnopinion @harvardbiz
Patrick @ramseymfm65.bsky.social Patrick S. Ramsey, MD, MSPH is Professor and Vice Chair Inpatient Obstetrics at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA).
Penn State Population Research Institute @pop.psu.edu The Population Research Institute is a multidisciplinary center that supports innovative population research. PRI promotes a dynamic, talented, and collaborative research community with over 100 faculty researchers.
Ann Montgomery @ifbywhiskey.ca Repro health and justice fan
Midwife-turned-writer
PhD Epidemiology UofT 🇨🇦
Lives on a boat
She/Her
Views & photos my own
Nicole Vergalla @nvphotos.bsky.social Photographer. Editor. Motion graphics designer. Fire dancer in another life. BK home base. Gowanus Dredgers Officer & 📷
Can be found staring at birds or tromping around nature in dresses in equal likelihood.
🌐 www.nvergalla.photo
@jgolight.bsky.social @jgolight.bsky.social
@cjbees.bsky.social @cjbees.bsky.social
Voice of Gowanus @voice-of-gowanus.bsky.social We are a grassroots volunteer-run organization that advocates for cleanup of the historic pollution in Gowanus to be fully protective of human health and the environment. We demand transparency and accountability from NY State and Federal agencies
The Cochrane Collaboration @cochrane.org Cochrane is a global, independent, non-profit network that produces and promotes trusted, high-quality health information to improve health and healthcare worldwide.
Trusted evidence. Informed decisions. Better health.
Karen A. Scott, MD, MPH, FACOG (she/her) @rjepiobwarrior.bsky.social BCR Founding CEO, Owner & Chief Black Feminist Physician Scientist. Southern Black Woman. Medical Humanities Scholar. Paradigm Architect, Systems Disruptor, Narrative Alchemist, Author, Activist. Trekkie, Foodie, Yoda Follower, Traveler.
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Sarah Gollust @sarahgollust.bsky.social Prof @umnsph.bsky.social; studies media & politics & health policy & public opinion; teaches ethics & health policy. Member of COMM HSP research team @commhsp.bsky.social. Wesleyan & UMich alum. Editor of @jhppl.bsky.social
Angelica Meinhofer @angelicameinhofer.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine 🇵🇷
@sarahhallgordon.bsky.social @sarahhallgordon.bsky.social
Joseph Benitez, PhD @jbenitezphd.bsky.social Health Economist at UK Martin School of Public Policy and Administration. Health, healthcare policy, and the Medicaid program.
Emma Golub @emmagolub.bsky.social Maternal-child health policy analyst in Philly. Protected bike lane lover, Tolkien fanatic, another Jew for a free Palestine. Opinions are mine only. She/Her
Nicolas R. Ziebarth @nicolasziebarth.bsky.social Head of "Labor & Social Insurance" at Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW Mannheim) |
Professor of Economics at University of Mannheim |
Health & Labor | Work incapacity & paid leave
https://www.zew.de/en/team/nrz
Nicole Davisson @nic-davisson.bsky.social Meezer mom 🐈⬛(siamese cats),PhD student at the U of U, small business owner w/ my kiddo refabulizing furniture with delovely art🎨, democratic socialist, feminist, late bloomer🪷🏳️🌈yacht rock lover⛵️🌊teatime keeper🫖 www.lavienouveaudecorshoppe.com
Syreeta (Sy) Nolan @synolan.bsky.social I dream of a world without the stigma of #MentalHealth & an #Academia where #disabilities are seen as a hidden strength. Let's change everything! #PublicSpeaker
#BrownSPH MPH Student
The Medical Post Magazine @themedicalpost.bsky.social Canada's leading independent magazine for physicians since 1965.
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Sueshep @eachdayanotherpage.bsky.social Minor bureaucrat, MIT cruft, cat dad, fibercrafter. Avid reader but I re-read for comfort in stressful times; currently on Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells.
Daniel Nelson @dbnelson.bsky.social Assistant Prof at OHSU, PCP, Idahoan, and dad. Interested in health policy.
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.
📚🧑🏻🍳🧣🏃🏻
Adam Gamoran @agamoran.bsky.social President of the William T. Grant Foundation and emeritus professor at UW-Madison
Michael Goldstein @goldsteinm52.medsky.social physician, educator, mentor, empathy advocate, grandpasoarous. MINTie. Former President, Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM). Fellow: SBM; Academy of Communication in Healthcare. Adjunct Professor, Alpert Medical School, Brown U. Views are my own.
Christina Bergey @bergeycm.bsky.social Assistant professor at Rutgers Genetics studying genomic evolution of humans, mosquitoes, monkeys...
Michael Okun @michaelokun.bsky.social Author of the Parkinson’s Plan, Medical Advisor Parkinson Foundation, Author 15 books http://pdplan.org Distinguished Professor and Director of the Fixel, Associate Editor JAMA Neurology, co-founder @DBSThinkTank
Katherine Schaff @katherineschaff.bsky.social Public health worker. Passionate about racial and health equity, collective liberation, and cat videos.
Eric Schrimshaw @ericschrimshaw.bsky.social Psychologist, dept Chair Population health sciences at UCF MED; research focused on LGBTQ+ health, mental health, and HIV prevention. 🏳️🌈
Rutgers University Press @rutgersupress.bsky.social Rutgers University Press is dedicated to the advancement and dissemination of knowledge to scholars, students, and the general reading public. The Press reflects and extends the University’s core mission of research, instruction, and service.
Kristen D. Krause, PhD, MPH @kristen-krause-phd.bsky.social HIV/AIDS & 🏳️🌈 Activist/Researcher. she/her/hers. Views are mine. #RutgersWolverine 〽️
Stephanie Shiau @stephshiau.bsky.social Epidemiologist. Mom. Runner and Running Coach
@gowanuscag.bsky.social @gowanuscag.bsky.social
Jan Marc Morawe @janmarcmorawe.bsky.social Gender Scholar
Interests: (a)sexualities, health communication, masculinities, contraception/safer sex, repro health, climate crisis, IR, peace/conflict studies, utopias/dystopias, mental health, media, history, ...
https://orcid.org/0009-0009-7802-2721
Elizabeth Fitelson @efitelson.bsky.social Reproductive/perinatal psychiatrist, CUIMC
Views of my employer do not represent my own
Mieke Eeckhaut @miekeeeckhaut.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology @ University of Delaware
Robert Hood, PhD MPH @rbhoody.bsky.social Assistant Professor, Division of Epidemiology, The Ohio State University College of Public Health. Environmental & reproductive health epidemiologist. Girl dad and cat lover! Posts are my own opinion.
Meghan Bellerose @meghanbellerose.bsky.social PhD student @brownpublichealth.bsky.social researching disability and reproductive / maternal health policy
Roger Figueroa, Ph.D., M.P.H., M.Sc. @rogerfigphd.bsky.social Assistant professor of Social and Behavioral Science in Nutrition at Cornell University.
Steven Pressman @stevenpressman.bsky.social Economics Professor, New School for Social Research; Emeritus Professor of Economics & Finance, Monmouth University; contributor to Washington Spectator; former editor, Review of Political Economy; author/editor of many books, including 50 Major Economists
Michelle Bover-Manderski @mtboverski.bsky.social epidemiologist focused on measurement, patterns, and health effects of tobacco and nicotine product use; married mom of 2 kiddos & a rescue boxer/pitt; opinions are my own
Nikolina Klatt @klatt.bsky.social PhD Researcher at SCRIPTS Freie Universität Berlin & Visiting Research Fellow at WZB @wzbdemocracy.bsky.social
Reproductive Rights and Political Regime Transformations
http://nikolinaklatt.github.io
Liz Hoffman @lizhoffmanoa.bsky.social Senior Publisher at BMC/SpringerNature working on health services research, health policy, public and global health open access journals. All views here are my own.
Torre Lavelle @torrelavelle.bsky.social PhDing sph.yale.edu & viralemergence.org. Climate change, emerging infectious diseases, biodiversity loss. Probably thinking about dogs
Cynthia Cox @cynthiaccox.bsky.social Senior Vice President @KFF.org #HealthPolicy. Focus on the #AffordableCareAct health care costs, outcomes & access to care. Lead a partnership with the Peterson Center on Healthcare tracking U.S. health system performance www.healthsystemtracker.org
Amy Feldman @amyfeldman7.bsky.social Forbes senior editor covering healthcare. Email afeldman@forbes.com, signal amyfeldman.33
Hillary Melchiors @hillarymelchiors.bsky.social Doula, writer, medical anthropologist, The Birth Geeks podcaster, small business owner, fierce Midwestern mama 🐻
Politics and Health 🗳️ 🩺 @politicshealth.bsky.social #HBCU professor of journalism and PR, ex-health care PR #Medicaid #Medicare, Emmy nom as journalist, lover of cats, Dem from birth.
Lived in CA, OH, MD, MA, AL, GA and now NC.
#DoNotObey She/her.
https://open.substack.com/pub/laurahmarshall
Meg Winchester @mswinche.bsky.social senior editor @Health Affairs | medical anthropologist | health policy, climate, global health, social determinants, accountable care | views expressed are my own
Matt Barry @mattbb1966.bsky.social Proud husband, dad, son, brother, friend. Public health policy expert. Section Head at Congressional Research Service. Views mine. Facts are stubborn things. Pragmatic idealist. Nerds are cool. Navy and Aggie Dad.
Heini Väisänen @heinivaisanen.bsky.social Social demography, sexual & reproductive health (#abortion, #miscarriage) at INED, France.
PI of ERC Starting Grant "Social Inequalities in the Risk and Aftermath of Miscarriage (@soc-misc.bsky.social)".
@FemQuant.bsky.social co-ordinator.
She/elle
Margherita Moretti @morettimarg.bsky.social Postdoc @dondenacentre.bsky.social
Affiliated @pophel.bsky.social & @MaxHel
PhD from @demosapienza.bsky.social | EDSD 19/20
Demography, health, ageing, family and intergen. relationship, inequalities
Music enthusiast, plant lover, wannabe kickboxer
Michelle Jackson @mivich.bsky.social Associate Professor of Sociology, Stanford
https://www.mivich.com/
Alessandro Di Nallo @aledinal.bsky.social Demography and sociology.
Lecturer at Universitat Pompeu Fabra @upf.edu.
Affiliated to @mpidr.bsky.social and dondenacentre.bsky.social
Ariane Ophir @arianeophir.bsky.social Sociologist & Demographer | Family & Singlehood | Gender & Life course | US & EU | PI of SINGLE (ERC StG 2025-2030)
@ercsingle.bsky.social
https://arianeophir.wixsite.com/arianeophir
Mark Petticrew @markpetticrew.bsky.social Public Health, Commercial Determinants of Health, Professor at London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM)
Anastasia Lam @anastasialam.bsky.social Postdoc @ Einstein Center Population Diversity & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin | Population aging, health expectancies, wealth & health inequalities, cross-national comparisons
Gaia Ghirardi @gaiaghirardi.bsky.social Sociologist for children and social equality.
Postdoctoral researcher, WZB Berlin Social Science Center
https://gaiaghirardi.github.io
Ruth Lewis @drruthlewis.bsky.social Sociologist & Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow | Population health, sexual health & wellbeing, public involvement, qual & participatory methods, evaluation, systems thinking | she/her
https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/healthwellbeing/staff/ruthlewis/
Evan Roberts @evanrobertsnz.bsky.social Social, demographic, & economic history @UMNews HMED & Population Studies. Coffee, photos, Dylan, urban & transit fan, road & trail runner. Constructive, loving critic of where I live (Minneapolis) and where I'm from (Wellington) @evanrobertsnz most places
George Ploubidis @georgeploubidis.bsky.social Prof of Population Health & Statistics at UCL @sriucl.bsky.social | Director of 1958NCDS & 1970BCS @clscohorts.bsky.social
Generational health drift | Lifecourse origins of adult health and mortality | Population mental health
José H C Monteiro da Silva @josehcms.bsky.social Demographer
PhD Candidate at the University of Pennsylvania
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Population Studies Group, LSHTM @psglshtm.bsky.social Population Studies Group at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine - psg.lshtm.ac.uk
Chandra Dhakal @cdhakal.bsky.social Health Economist @CDCFoundation| PhD in Applied Economics @universityofga l@TexasTech Alum | Global Health Researcher | Decision Analysis | Demand Analysis I Food & Health Economics
No Meat May @nomeatmay.bsky.social We bring people together to discover incredible food from all around the world. Our mission is to inspire and support people to shift to more plant-rich eating, to help build a healthier, kinder, and more sustainable world.
Meg Haney, PhD @meghaney.bsky.social Professor of Neurobiology at Columbia Psychiatry. Director of the Cannabis Research Laboratory. Placebo-controlled studies are my favorite.