Towards Health Equity

Drs. Olivia Lanier and Nicholas Peppas from the University of Texas at Austin sharing articles and news to help researchers in STEM improve health equity

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

We are here to share news and articles that can help engineers and scientists improve health equity through opening their mind to ideas they may have not considered before. Contact us with questions or news to share at [email protected]

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

"Initiating a paradigm shift in American healthcare: Empowering women with implantable contraceptives". Two PhD students of @UTBiomedical published an article that is worth your attention! Arian Veyssi and Haidyn Ogg have written a very special treatise https://t.co/8HPCoAlZyD

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

I am told this was an incredible talk at #BMES2023 by @BmeOlivia Lanier today. Congratulations Olivia!

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

A very "current" article on "Macroencapsulation Devices for Cell Therapy" co-authored by Profs Wei Liu, @guzhenlab & their associates, with @BmeOlivia Lanier and @NPeppas to @UTBiomedical & @TexasChE and Marissa @WechslerLab of @UTSA BME in "Engineering" https://t.co/ydLnMI7am8

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

@bme_olivia and other colleagues in a Drug Delivery SIG Webinar if @SFBiomaterials here https://t.co/Zp0paK3aNx

[Dr. Ijeoma Opara @IjeomaOparaPHD]

Twitter fam, thank you for helping me to find the family of the 9 year old girl from NJ who had the police called on her by her neighbor for collecting lantern flies. I connected with them & invited them to @yale for a Black girl led Science Tour! Yesterday—HISTORY was MADE (1/)

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

Incredible paper

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

A very special paper in @acsnano by @AviSchroeder and coll. "Nanoparticles Accumulate in the Female Reproductive System during Ovulation Affecting Cancer Treatment and Fertility". Truly exceptional. Must be read. https://t.co/TVSVzza6ej

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

@ToHealthEquity

[Dr. Simone A. Douglas-Green @DrBlackBoots]

Sad to see the Ford Fellowship is winding down. This was awarded to trainees (not institutions)- that matters! Someone seeing potential in you is a game changer for minoritized graduate & postdoc trainees! Trust me, one "yes" can make a huge difference to these trainees...

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

@ToHealthEquity Kelly Stevens @kellystevenslab
of UW, a leading biomedical scientist and a fresh and bold voice promoting major changes in academia will be speaking at the #IFoRE in Alexandria, VA on November 3-6, 2022. Be there!

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

Great article on implications of systemic racism theory and data for public policies regarding medical care and public health.
https://t.co/JVRn4Gnfl3

[Gilda Barabino @GildaBarabino]

It was wonderful working with @HarrietNembhard on this important topic. I believe strongly that it will take a systems approach to develop solutions to current health disparities that stem from racism.

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

Check out an article on our work that will improve accessibility of treatments by developing oral delivery systems for medications currently delivered by infusions or injections!

[Nicholas A. Peppas @NPeppas]

Published today in the @AmSciMag (American Scientist) by Olivia Lanier @bme_olivia and @NPeppas "Replacing Injections with Oral Medications"
https://t.co/FmLLKFGii1

[uché blackstock, md @uche_blackstock]

This is heartbreaking and preventable!

Inaccurate oxygen readings delayed /prevented potentially life-saving COVID therapies in Black and Hispanic patients. It’s know that pulse oximeter readings overestimate oxygen levels in people with darker skin.

https://t.co/VngsrDlazp

[Erika Moore @DrErikaMoore]

May is #Lupus Awareness Month!
Lupus is a health disparity that disproportionately affects #WOMEN and #WomenOfColor-
Check out Laurence Morel, Tracyio Roach, and my interview on #Lupus https://t.co/XrrfDfBLQB @UFCTSI @UFMSE @UFHealth @LupusResearch

[Erika Moore @DrErikaMoore]

Thank you so much @SFBiomaterials for highlighting Health Disparities in bioengineering!

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

Neglected tropical diseases are understudied and underfunded, despite the fact that they afflict 1/6 of the world’s population. Here are interesting perspectives on how nanomedicines can be used to treat them
https://t.co/KsWMi1ZBJt

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

“ The 5% underrepresentation for a Latino population of more than 60 million could translate into at least $3 billion in lost funding for some towns and cities." This could have a huge impact on health disparities...
https://t.co/CTvRgBWPi3

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

In this Review, the authors present nanoparticle drug delivery technologies specifically designed to exploit the placenta as a biological barrier to treat maternal, placental, or fetal diseases exclusively, while minimizing off-target toxicities.
https://t.co/yM7Dy03tmh

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

This is one of the hypothesized reasons for increased autoimmune disease prevalence in females

[Towards Health Equity @ToHealthEquity]

X-inactivation is a process that only occurs in people with XX chromosomes. In each cell, one copy of the X chromosome is randomly silenced, leading to a mosaic pattern not observed in people with XY chromosomes
https://t.co/cUIJ7LWwSQ