Neuro-Oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Health Disparities Researcher
Joshua Budhu
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Excited to share our new @aanmember.bsky.social Position Statement: A Roadmap to Neurologic Health Equity, outlining actionable steps to move from recognizing disparities to implementing solutions across care, research, and policy.
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Excited to share our new review in Cancers on sociodemographic disparities and health-related quality of life in adults with gliomas.
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#NeuroOncology #HealthEquity #BrainTumors
Excited to share our new review on financial toxicity in cancer.
We discuss how financial burden arises across multiple levels patients, providers, health systems, and policy and why solutions must extend beyond the individual.
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@fumikochino.bsky.social @bthomphd.bsky.social
For me, this hits close to home. We’ve seen what happened with lomustine and the impact on brain tumor patients when a life-saving therapy becomes inaccessible. These aren’t abstract policy issues — they have real consequences for people.
@eddiecliff.bsky.social @mskcancercenter.bsky.social
Proud of this new @healthaffairs.bsky.social piece: Essential Drugs Must Be Affordable and Accessible.
So proud of @cuny.edu Medicine student Merna Shohdy — she did an incredible job breaking down why essential meds remain out of reach for too many patients.
www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
As neurology enters the era of high-cost therapies, financial toxicity is becoming a key determinant of access, adherence, and equity.
Proud to work with superstar resident Dr. Gotlieb on this viewpoint in @greenjournal.bsky.social
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@mskcancercenter.bsky.social
đź“Ś CHPC leadership Dr. Beth McGinty, Dr. Will Schpero, & Weill Cornell Medical student Michael Liu have a piece out in Health Affairs Scholar: "Regional changes in inpatient psychiatric bed capacity and availability of alternative psychiatric services, 2012-2022"
👉 Read here:
There are steps we can take to improve access to lifesaving drugs for patients, including the ones listed in this Health Affairs post. #pharmacoequity
Essential Drugs Must Be Affordable And Accessible www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore... by @jbudhu.bsky.social @eddiecliff.bsky.social
đź’¸ #Financialtoxicity interventions from patient to provider to policy.
Ultimately, sustainable solutions must occur at the societal level, where structural reforms in financing, transparency, & consumer protection can promote greater equity & safeguard pt financial well being.
March 4th.
The only date that is also a command.
It's been 19 years since my husband died of cancer & my life irreversibly changed. It took me years to feel like I wasn't drowning every minute of every day.
Grief & financial toxicity gave me a mission.
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Neurologic disorders affect more than 200 million people in the United States, yet
inequities in neurologic health persist particularly among marginalized populations.
These disparities are rooted not...
