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
Sarah Gollust
NEW: A serious staffing shortage — of the Trump admin's own making — is delaying the agency's ability to send billions to universities around the country, leaving labs reeling in the meantime.
“I thought we were at rock bottom”, a senior NIH official said. “We are below rock bottom now.”
NIH has allocated just 33% of its normal budget this year, putting critical medical breakthroughs at risk. Johns Hopkins President Ron Daniels and University of Kansas Chancellor Dr. Douglas Girod are calling on the government to release it before the damage becomes permanent. https://bit.ly/4f3GuzR
Some units at the US funding giant are so understaffed, they are focusing on mandated grant renewals rather than new awards.
Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.
New publication from our team on local TV news coverage of COVID-19-related racial disparities. This work highlights which communities and media environments were more — and less — likely to encounter reporting on racial health disparities during COVID-19. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
We published today the latest figures on cause of death in children. In every year since COVID, the number one killer of children in the US is guns.
Liana Woskie and Kimberly Turner's excellent new @theconversation.com piece draws on "From Relf v. Weinberger to Drive-Through Delivery: Unpacking Democratic Responsiveness & Administrative Levers in US Sterilization Policy."
read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
theconversation.com/reduced-heal...
Max Kozlov
@mirandayaver.bsky.social & @mshepruralpolitics.bsky.social interviewed @mattmotta.bsky.social @thcallaghan.bsky.social & @klunztrujillo.bsky.social on their article "Public Risk Perceptions & Policy Attitudes Toward Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza." Check it out! on.soundcloud.com/JysieKBuo450...
JHU president, University of Kansas chancellor urge federal agencies to release congressionally appropriated funds to fuel America's research engine
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Looking ahead to potential reductions in Medicare Advantage insurer participation and benefits, JHPPL analysis of Medicare Advantage politics and policy provides important broader context. To start, Erin Fuse Brown & coauthors assess MA's problematic features. read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
If you've followed courts' recent policy moves related to mifepristone and are looking for a good analysis of the politics surrounding medication abortion, Carrie Baker's JHPPL article examines medication in historical perspective with insights for post-Roe period read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/articl...
US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.
Abstract. The Medicare Advantage program was created to expand beneficiary choice and to reduce spending through capitated payment to private insurers. However, many stakeholders now argue that Medica...
Collaborative on Media & Messaging for Health and Social Policy
Due Friday! @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds and I are looking forward to reviewing your submissions!
Molly Jeffery, PhD MPP
We examined market-level social and demographic characteristics and station-level factors as predictors of local television news coverage of COVID-19-related racial disparities using the theoretica...
An analysis of current causes of deaths among U.S. children and adolescents underscores
the need for sustained investment in prevention, research on injury and overdose treatments,
and readiness in .....
⏰ CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS UPCOMING DEADLINE ⏰. Submissions for the JHPPL, "Community Organizing, Power, and Politics, special issue edited by @povertyscholar.bsky.social, Megan Reynolds, and @sarahgollust.bsky.social are due May 15!! Submission link here: read.dukeupress.edu/jhppl/pages/...
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CALL FOR PAPER PROPOSALS: Community Organizing, Power, and Politics. Co...
Abstract. This article examines the decades-long campaign to increase access to abortion pills in the United States, including advocates' work to win US Food and Drug Administration approval of mifepr...
In Minnesota, GOP leadership has been hiding a gun violence prevention bill in a desk drawer to prevent it from coming to a vote.
In response, DFL legislators just announced that they will begin a sit-in to hold the House floor overnight unless Speaker Demuth allows for a fair vote within 24 hours.
