Buehler Center for Health Policy & Economics

The Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics within the Institute for Public Health and Medicine (IPHAM), Northwestern Feinberg School of Medicine

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Congratulations to Buehler Center Director Dr. Lori Ann Post on being the top-cited @NorthwesternU faculty member last week!

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Congratulations to Dr. Soyang Kwon and her team on their recent publication! Read it here: https://t.co/9tUF3I8yDG

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Buehler Center member Dr. Norrina Bai Allen contributed to research highlighting the importance of maintaining a low-stable blood pressure trajectory throughout young adulthood to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease after age 40. Read it here: https://t.co/xmds9DzsX7

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Congratulations to Buehler Center member Dr. Maryann Mason and her team on their paper, "Door-to-door overdose harm reduction: an Illinois case study," which was recently published in the Harm Reduction Journal.

Read it here: https://t.co/6fXE1uidsl

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Buehler Center member Dr. Lindsay Allen featured in "The New York Times Presents" documentary series on the "Weight of the World" episode, which explored how GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic rose in popularity for weight loss.

Learn more here: https://t.co/Wkxn9mbgGq

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You are welcome to join the @nu_ipham seminar series held in partnership with the Buehler Center for Health Policy and Economics. This talk will describe the growing cybersecurity threat in health care.

RSVP here: https://t.co/lDrcPgm55e

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Buehler Center Director Dr. Lori Post moderated a panel at the @APHAAnnualMtg titled "Catalyzing Change: Transforming Injury and Violence Prevention Surveillance with Data Science Innovation." Buehler Center member Dr. Maryann Mason and research partner Dr. Qing Zeng presented.

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Dr. Lori Post, faculty associate at @IPRatNU, featured in a Northwestern Now article highlighting her research on how the Federal Assault Weapons Ban could have prevented 38 mass shootings between 2005 and 2022, had it stayed in place.

Read further here: https://t.co/kKNaLWWcKE

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Dr. Maryann Mason, associate professor at @NUFeinbergMed, joined Emergent’s podcast, Countermeasures, to speak about breaking down stereotypes surrounding older adults to help improve outcomes during the opioid crisis.

Listen here: https://t.co/UNrNgytZQU

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In 2018, Murad Alam led a study on the effects of facial exercises for women.

Check out this article featuring his work: https://t.co/r1RIVY1mlY

#dermatology #healthcare #fitness

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Medicare serves about 20% of the US population.

Cynthia Barnard worked with other Northwestern researchers on an article explaining the program in depth, with the goal of stimulating discussion on improvements to the policy.

https://t.co/AwKVBv17Cd

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Danielle McCarthy (@dmcmoster), James Adams and Alex Lundberg worked on a Northwestern Medicine study to assess the relationship between economic conditions and emergency department visits related to cardiovascular disease.

Read the full study: https://t.co/SrVj93VL5H

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Check out this Northwestern Now article about Linda Teplin's (@LindaTeplin) research on mental health services for youth after detention!

https://t.co/tZA7FYm1iw

#mentalhealth #justicesystem

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In early 2020, the United Network for Organ Sharing created a new liver allocation policy.

Last week, Daniela Ladner (@DanielaLadnerMD) published a commentary related to the policy in @JAMASurgery.

https://t.co/li9auA9Ujs

#healthcare #policy #medicine

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In 2020, the CDC estimated that almost 6 million US adults had #dementia.

Megan McHugh conducted a qualitative study of ED care for people with dementia by interviewing patients and caregivers.

Read their findings in the full study: https://t.co/1Hp12lPlzi

#healthcare

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This weekend marked six months since Global Health Day, celebrated with the Robert J. Havey, MD Institute for Global Health. Check out the event's posters: https://t.co/lTIOu4GtRl

#globalhealth #research #poster

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More than 25% of the world's population is affected by skin diseases, including many children and teens.

Amy Paller (@paller_lab) and a team of researchers studied the effects of stigma on youth with chronic skin diseases.

https://t.co/1xVFEcS10q

#dermatology #mentalhealth

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This month, we released a new SUDORS fact sheet on adolescent drug overdose deaths.

SUDORS is part of the Overdose Data to Action initiative in partnership with the Illinois Department of Public Health designed to use data to combat overdose.

https://t.co/tfkehSwxf2

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Check out this @CNBCMakeIt article featuring Hannes Schwandt's research on the post-pandemic job market and difficulties recent grads face.

#economy #jobhunting #covid19
https://t.co/DKlOqieuJ2

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Buehler Center member Michelle Macy (@MichLMacy) co-authored an article that found that 54% of survey respondents who were pregnant or planning to become pregnant were "very likely" to get vaccinated for RSV.

#healthcare #vaccines #medicine
https://t.co/rOZNPBgCDv