Natalie Flath, PhD MPH

🇺🇦🪆abolitionist she/her

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

So happy this paper is finally out! Exploring Black civil society perspectives of drug decriminalization reforms in the Baltimore context: a participatory action qualitative study https://t.co/sjgO86YPSp @Ne0Nubian

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

Baltimore fam! Come join me with esteemed colleges to talk about drug policy this Monday at the library to learn about my story and the research I’ve been a part of! Hosted by the wonderful @ncdl_legalize and @ssdpofficial

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

@jfernandezochoa @ISSDrugPolicy Fortunately not promoting drug crim- but a researcher presentation about what police think about decrim in Vancouver, Canada

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

@jfernandezochoa @ISSDrugPolicy thankfully not supporting drug crim but just highlighting police perspectives in the decrim efforts and of course they say this

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

Presented my work on survival economics among women who use drugs in Baltimore today in Montreal at @ISSDrugPolicy

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

@MudiaUzzi presenting powerful research on how to capture structural racism and overdose deaths.

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

At #issdp in Montreal and in Vancouver, police think over policing isn’t a problem 😞

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

“Who you are shapes the questions you ask,” Dr. Wall-Scheffler said. “It shapes the expectations of what you see.”

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

I'm so in love with this research done by one of my esteemed undergraduate professors and mentors. This research so powerfully speaks to the biases of scientific knowledge and resonates so deeply.
"Move Over, Men: Women Were Hunters, Too"
https://t.co/UPVeRCEUIT

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

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[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

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[Technical.ly Baltimore @TechnicallyBMR]

Could AI be harnessed to support reparations in Baltimore? We asked, based on a recent @OpenSociety-funded report by Hopkins researchers @flathanator and @Ne0Nubian that highlights the need for reparations in drug decriminalization https://t.co/eJjO8Dchfn

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

Today is #SupportDontPunish and we are talking about the future of drug policy at today's online discussion: https://t.co/N0UcelDHTE

[LBS Baltimore @LBSBaltimore]

Join us at the @LewisMuseum to discuss our new report: "The Communal Impacts of Drug Criminalization in Maryland"

🗓️4.3.2023
🕕6pm - 7:30pm
🎟️FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Register now: https://t.co/oU71qPd0N2

[Lawrence Grandpre @Ne0Nubian]

Just finished the report I've been working on for a few years. It's about the impacts of drug criminalization on the balck community and making the case to reframe opiod decriminalization around reparations for the War on Drugs. I'll be giving a talk on the findings 4/3/23.

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

I’m a PHD student at @JohnsHopkinsSPH in the dept. of mental health getting paid a poverty stipend. I wish I could help him. The irony of it all is gut wrenching.

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

@HopkinsMedicine diagnosed my brother with PTSD from a police encounter while experiencing a disabling psychotic episode, then turned around to criminally charge him with destruction of a computer during a PTSD attack in the hospital that was emergency petitioned by the police.

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

Now he has an anxiety producing looming fine over him - he’s on probation until he can pay it off- he can’t find work given his disability

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

-using the same raw materials – white supremacy, a history of oppression and a tool kit whose main contents: confinement, isolation, surveillance and punishment .” - Prison by Any Other Name

[Natalie Flath, PhD MPH @flathanator]

“Innovation in itself is no guarantee of progress, reform is not the building of something of new, it is the reforming of the system in its own image"