Jessi Tobin, PhD

Health services research fellow with the VA Greater LA. Healthcare access, disparities, social determinants of health. Researcher, mama, lifelong learner.

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@brookemariebell @SamCwalina Yayyyyy congrats @SamCwalina !!

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@AnujaMajmundar @JAMAInternalMed @ACS_Research Amazing work!!

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@RichardMWatana1 My grandparents were in the camps but understandably, never talked much about it. It’s great to learn about other firsthand experiences during that time and their resistance to incarceration!

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@ChristineNaya @GenevieveDunton @darbysaxbe @BelcherBritni Yaaay congrats!! 🥳

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“Anyone else who recklessly squandered lives and money in this way would be suffering legal consequences. Our leaders have largely claimed immunity for their actions. But this election gives us the power to render judgment... truth is neither liberal nor conservative.” 🙌🏼

[NEJM @NEJM]

Why has the United States handled this pandemic so badly? The Editors note that although we came into this crisis with enormous advantages, our current political leaders have demonstrated that they are dangerously incompetent.

[𝗗𝗿. 𝗟𝗶𝗮𝗼, 𝗬𝘂𝗲, 𝗖𝗣𝗛 👩🏻‍💻 廖玥 @yueliao]

Microsoft today announced a slew of Teams features including virtual commutes, meditation breaks, and work habits. Other new additions span Together Mode, Dynamic View, Breakout Rooms, recaps, presentation, calling, and new devices.
https://t.co/I4p8BmvWvs

[Andy Slavitt @ASlavitt]

COVID Update September 21: As the world approaches 1 million deaths, and the U.S. 200,000, where we go from here is the most important thing.

And there is a simple trick to slow and stop these deaths. 1/

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@KimMillerPhD Loving that last hashtag 😄

[Jessi Tobin, PhD @JessicaLTobin]

This week I was sworn in to start the Advanced Fellowship in Health Services Research with the VA’s Center for the Study of Healthcare Innovation, Implementation, and Policy. Tbh it feels a bit weird to be employed by this federal government, but regardless, I’m looking forward..

[World Health Organization (WHO) @WHO]

"Today is a day of celebration, and a day of hope.
Today we come together to rejoice over an historic public health success - the certification of wild poliovirus eradication in the African Region."-@DrTedros #AFRORC70

#EndPolio #AfricaKicksOutWildPolio

[Jessi Tobin, PhD @JessicaLTobin]

..having an interaction in a regression model without the main effect. The interaction may show the slope of the dose in the right direction, but the lack of main effects causes the intercepts to be incorrect, so you don’t know where to vertically position the line.”

[Jessi Tobin, PhD @JessicaLTobin]

I so appreciate the Datamethods forum, I learn so much being a fly on the wall of expert stats/methods/causal inf discussions. Re: the Mayo paper, all the critiques are important, this analogy in particular is great: “A dose-response study w/o a ctrl group is analogous to..1/2

[Frank Harrell @f2harrell]

1/2 My @VUMChealth colleague Jill Pulley points out that the Mayo Clinic convalescent plasma study result is consistent with low titer transfusions harming patients instead of high dose benefiting patients. See her interesting take here: https://t.co/MSstPvJD1Z @vandy_biostat

[Robyn Hyden @robynhyden]

I spoke with 3 people this week who simply could not comprehend the absolute economic destitution that people have to demonstrate in order to qualify for Medicaid health coverage as an adult in AL. Spoke with a journalist, an academic and a politician. Nobody could believe it.

[Dr. Rachel Shelton @DrRachelShelton]

Amazing thread & article with recommendations for policies, practices & norms needed to support #earlycareer scientists who are #caregivers amidst #COVID19, especially parents with children & #WomenInSTEM 1/

[Everyone In LA @EveryoneIn_LA]

"People living in poverty already experience high levels of toxic stress. The impact this has on a mom and her children is significant—they face long-term increased risks & challenges to their health & safety, learning abilities, relationships, and economic stability.”

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[Whitney R. Robinson @WhitneyEpi]

1/ Not that @jbouie needs me to pump up his work, but I will anyway. This essay is excellent for scholars who do work in U.S. Black populations but are not explicitly trained in the theory and history of racial stratification...

https://t.co/MM6zThYSW9