Sociologist & demographer at Brown University. I study the political & structural drivers of population health.
Courtney Boen
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He said repeatedly that NIH-funded grants should seek to influence clinical decisions by providers or patients, and nothing else.
An incredible stance from a health economist who spent time in the population health world, and an absolute repudiation of the hopes that he is reachable on that basis.
Today I'm publicly releasing a paper that answers that question (download link in the comments) using data on 5.4 million local businesses across the US:
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
During the first year of the current administration, ICE raids caused serious economic damage in seven ways:
What a pill to swallow after presenting in the “Public Policy & Population Health” session yesterday at #paa2026.
One of the biggest challenges of doing work in this area has always been that institutions rarely provide researchers with evidence of their harms.
Now they won’t fund it, either.
…For those who weren’t there, something I didn’t post about (because we pivoted from policy to pop centers and I wanted to listen closely) was Bhattacharya’s absolutely astonishing claim that research evaluating the health effects of public policy is out of scope for NIH-funded research.
