Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP

Assistant Prof @UofUMedicine @UofUPHS @UUtah | Health policy, suicide, & firearm safety research | My views are my own. 🇺🇸

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Today, we remember and honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country. 🇺🇸 🙏

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Our large language model approach outperformed a conventional NLP/supervised machine learning approach by a wide margin. 👀This suggests that large language models can be used to unlock textual analysis in public health research. @lauracprater

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

👇 we leveraged a large language model (ChatGPT-like) approach to identify infrequent circumstances preceding female firearm suicide deaths in unstructured coroner/medical examiner and law enforcement incident narrative data (e.g., sleep problems, dementia, sexual violence).

[JMIR Publications @jmirpub]

JMIR Mental Health: Identifying Rare Circumstances Preceding Female Firearm Suicides: Validating A Large Language Model #Approach https://t.co/KHJbfXey7v

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

We're on the lookout for collaborative colleagues with expertise in behavioral econ, decision science, or related fields, e.g., social psychology, judgment & decision-making, experimental and neuroeconomics, to join us in beautiful Utah! Info 👇! #EconTwitter #BehavioralScience

[UofU HSIR @UofUHSIR]

📢 Join Our Team! Passionate about #BehavioralEconomics and #DecisionSciences? We're on the lookout for collaborative colleagues driving innovative research in these fields. Work with amazing faculty at @UofUPHS @UofUHealth. Apply at https://t.co/Zeg07edsMQ

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

@mevanneman @UUtah @UofUHealth @UofUInternalMed Woohoo! Congratulations! 🎉 Such an awesome scholar, scientist, leader, and human!

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

@NasserSharareh @AcademyHealth Looking forward to it! 🙌🙌🙌

[Megan Vanneman @mevanneman]

Join us on 5/23 @theNASEM Workshop on Identifying & Managing Veteran Suicide Risk in Non-VA Healthcare Settings. I'll be there presenting on VA-purchased community care & learning from colleagues w/ diverse areas of expertise. https://t.co/sqg4QPhMUl @RSayko_Adams @LisaABrenner

[Andrew Morral @AndrewMorral]

I mentioned that our firearm homicide rate is more than 100x higher than that of England + Wales. But high firearm homicides drive up our overall homicide rate, making the US a stark outlier among developed nations.

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

A sobering thread 👇 (although not surprising). We have much work to do across multiple determinants of health.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: I’m not sure people fully appreciate how dire the US life expectancy / mortality situation has got.

My column: https://t.co/dBIhT9eZLv

And some utterly damning charts.

1) at *every* point on the income distribution, Americans live shorter lives than the English.

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

@betterhealthcle 🙏

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

@ForbesTech 😮

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Certain machine learning algorithms performed better than others. But our experience demonstrated the need to balance resource-intensive NLP dev w/ other approaches for public health practice. We thank @GunResearch for supporting this research.

More findings forthcoming!

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

In this in-press @AmJPrevMed paper, we (@lauracprater, myself, and awesome team) developed a straightforward/conventional NLP pipeline to classify circumstances preceding female firearm suicide deaths using incident narratives from NVDRS.

https://t.co/J4x7wP7PiZ

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

In this @Health_Affairs Forefront article, we discuss the potential policy implications of public detachment and desensitization to firearm violence, as well as evidence and recommendations for policy researchers, media, and clinicians. 👇

[Health Affairs @Health_Affairs]

In their new Forefront article, @evangoldstein + @lauracprater of @UUtah + @UW discuss how firearm violence in the US + the endless stream of media coverage about firearm violence may be fatiguing the US public to remain politically activated. #GunControl https://t.co/LsYHTj2Za5

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

👏🙌 @JoshJPharmD — our PhD students are such awesome researchers and people!

[Population Health Sciences PhD, U of U @UofUPopHealthEd]

Josh Jacobs, PHS PhD student, will spend the summer working at the NIH side-by-side with some of the world's leading scientists, in an environment devoted exclusively to biomedical research - Congrats, Josh!
@UofUPHS @NIH
#research #academia #phd #pophealth #biomedical

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Be sure to check out the latest (awesome) issue of AJPM Focus, including our paper, "Hispanic Immigrants and Suicide: Overcoming Data Challenges in an Anti-immigrant Climate" 👇

[AJPM Focus @AJPMFocus]

Our second full issue is now out! Read #OpenAccess research on topics ranging from #intersectional disparities in cervical cancer screening to #disparities predicting postpartum weight retention to a healthy eating intervention in Navajo schools:

https://t.co/ge64djZGlQ

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Go Utes! 🙌🌹🏆

[Pac-12 Conference @pac12]

REPEAT‼️

@Utah_Football is your 2022 Pac-12 Champion! 🏆

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

Same. Feeling inspired! Much more good, hard work ahead.

[Dr. Laura Prater @lauracprater]

Agree with this - good vibes and good times with some of my favorite peeps at the first annual #2022FirearmResearchConf in DC - looking forward to Chi in 2023!

[Carrie Farmer, PhD @carriefarmer]

This guesstimate that 40% of U.S. adults are military veterans is WILD.

[Evan Goldstein, PhD, MPP @evangoldstein]

With better data and creatively using existing data, the scientific community can play a crucial role in understanding the burden of suicide/identifying critical suicide risk factors among Hispanic immigrants amid the rise in anti-immigrant attitudes.

Read more 👇 @AJPMFocus

[AJPM Focus @AJPMFocus]

Out now: "Hispanic #Immigrants and #Suicide: Overcoming Data Challenges in an Anti-immigrant Climate"

Read free (#OpenAccess): https://t.co/l0OBGmLM1U

@evangoldstein