20 years ago, #Enbrel was a relatively new medication on the #rheumatoid disease front. My #insurance company would only cover half the cost of home injectables aside from insulin. I could not afford a $500/month #copay so I kept trying medications that wouldn't work.

Around that time a friend of mine with rheumatoid disease said that they were rolling out Enbrel very slowly in Canada and it was hard to get, and it was better for people who lived in the US where it wasn't rationed.

Oh, it was rationed.
#hc4a #healthJustice
https://mastodon.energy/@AndrewHenry/110956412737762963

Racism at heart of US failure to tackle deadly heatwaves, expert warns

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/aug/06/jef-goodell-heatwaves-racism-the-heat-will-kill-you-first-book

#climatechange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice #HealthJustice #EnvironmentalRacism

From birth to death, the legacy of racism lays the foundation for Black Americans' health disparities.

> [Black Americans compared to white Americans] have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher incidence of asthma during childhood, more difficulty treating mental health as teens, and greater rates of high blood pressure, Alzheimer's disease and other illnesses.

https://projects.apnews.com/features/2023/from-birth-to-death/index.html

#HealthJustice #HealthDisparities #HealthEquity

The Future of Global Health Has Rarely Looked Grimmer

By Gregg Gonsalves

"It seems safe to assume that most people, even those working in public health, don’t remember the 1978 Alma Ata Declaration. That’s where World Health Organization member states endorsed a goal of “health care for all by the year 2000,” and tied that aim to a set of objectives that, at least back then, seemed feasible to accomplish.

We all know how things turned out. As David Walton, who is now US global malaria coordinator for the President’s Malaria Initiative, and a group of his then-colleagues at Partners in Health recalled in a barbed commentary in 2004: “As the year 2000 approached, the Alma Ata slogan became the butt of ridicule in international health circles. The slogan contained a typographical error, went the joke: the rallying cry was in fact ‘health care for all by the year 3000.’”

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/global-health-future/

#publichealth #healthcare #universalhealthcare #WHO #healthjustice

@statstas

Here's the recording from the Data + Donuts event on the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3Gmef_Ip1w

@rstats #HealthJustice #GIS #HealthEquity #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #rstats

I'm super excited that later today at 10:30 Eastern Time I'll be speaking at the Data+Donuts series at Harvard Kennedy School about the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0.

Among other things, I'll talk a little bit about the role the #tidycensus package and GIS software in R like #sf can serve in analyzing data to advance health justice.

Find the online registration here:

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/data-donuts-public-health-disparities-geocoding-project-20-christian-testa

@rstats #HealthJustice #GIS #HealthEquity #Epidemiology #PublicHealth #rstats

I'm super excited that later today at 10:30 Eastern Time I'll be speaking at the Data+Donuts series at Harvard Kennedy School about the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0.

Among other things, I'll talk a little bit about the role the #tidycensus package and GIS software in R like #sf can serve in analyzing data to advance health justice.

Find the online registration here:

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/data-donuts-public-health-disparities-geocoding-project-20-christian-testa

@rstats #HealthJustice #GIS #HealthEquity #Epidemiology #PublicHealth

RT @_HassanF
"It is time to DEFY unjust IP TRIPS rules (governments in GS)... it is NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE..."

- Prof Joseph Stiglitz at #RIO2023

🔥
#healthjustice
#climatejustice

I wanted to advertise that I'll be speaking this Friday at the Harvard Kennedy School Library Data+Donuts series on the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0

I'd love to see you there! The event is at 10:30am and hybrid format, so you can come in person or join via Zoom.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/data-donuts-public-health-disparities-geocoding-project-20-christian-testa

#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #HealthDisparities #HealthJustice #Academia

I wanted to advertise that I'll be speaking this Friday at the Harvard Kennedy School Library Data+Donuts series on the Public Health Disparities Geocoding Project 2.0

I'd love to see you there! The event is at 10:30 and hybrid format, so you can come in person or join via Zoom.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/events/data-donuts-public-health-disparities-geocoding-project-20-christian-testa

#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #HealthDisparities #HealthJustice #Academia

RT @oni_blackstock
On this 1st day of #BlackHistoryMonth, #HealthJustice celebrates the start of our 3rd year of supporting #publichealth, #healthcare, and other health-affiliated organizations in advancing along their racial equity journeys!

Visit https://healthjustice.co to learn more!

Our latest magazine sets a foundation for how we should be looking at #health, exploring what it looks like to thrive from a multilevel, systemic perspective: https://bit.ly/3KiCEDC #healthequity #healthjustice

This interview with @EricReinhart (author above) is EXCELLENT:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_CxGhEuXcG8

#Medicine #unions #1u #M4A #pandemic #STS #HealthJustice

Juror selection room is now standing room only - no air filter devices, windows closed. Masks offered, but announced as optional. Thankfully, only intermittent coughing.... It's so weird that the #pandemic is suddenly over on Feb 6, 2023! 🎉 Yay! #healthjustice 😷

Must Read: 📓

HJI submission on the Comments on the Criminal Law (Sexual Offences And Related Matters)
https://lnkd.in/eNMYc2W7

Collective Voices against Health Xenophobia strongly condemns Operation Dudula’s attack on patients at the Jeppe Clinic
https://lnkd.in/eqen5cq4

Opinion: Changing the law on sex work will save lives, we must see it through
https://lnkd.in/emkTUUn3

#healthjustice #decrimsexwork
#healthxenophobia #SouthAfrica

RT @Girlboxingnow@twitter.com

The inhumanity of this "ban" is extraordinary ... What a shameful act. OUR CHILDREN DESERVE BETTER THAN THE STATE OF UTAH! #transrights #healthjustice #LGBTQ @angryafroradio@twitter.com @CMargaronis@twitter.com @nhbnews@twitter.com @LindaLeePeacock@twitter.com @Deoliver47@twitter.com @nmj9999@twitter.com @DesiaDesigns@twitter.com @DrChronology@twitter.com @RBlooms2021@twitter.com https://twitter.com/Jezebel/status/1620188380012363777

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Girlboxingnow/status/1620406724862832640

I wrote a Continuing Education article for American Academy of HIV Medicine's HIV Specialist Magazine! I wrote about creating affirming care for #Transgender and gender-diverse people with HIV; thank you once again to #AAHIVM for giving me this opportunity to advocate and educate. #Pharmacy #LGBTQ #Transgender #trans #HealthJustice #HIV

https://aahivm.ygsclicbook.com/pubs/hiv-specialist/2022/winter-2022/live/index.html#p=1

We are back in office !!!

#healthjustice

Why Health Justice Matters:

Save The Date:
23 - 26 April 2023

Rio, Brazil

#healthjustice
#climatejustice
#access2medicines
#peoplesvaccine
#openthecontracts
#TRIPS

Our work at Boston Healthcare for the Homeless is based on the vision of Dr. Jim O’Connell - and inspired by his passion!
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/05/magazine/boston-homeless-dr-jim-oconnell.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare #healthjustice #housing #homelessness #hiv #harmreduction