Jacob Bor

Population health science, health economics, epidemiology, HIV/AIDS, US health disparities

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021".

https://t.co/eoVdBanoTE

[Francois Venter @FrancoisVenter3]

Why aren't we doing this, South Africa? Poverty alleviation interventions work.

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

Kudos and appreciation for my co-authors @DrMaryTBassett @JuliaRaifman @astokespop @atheendar @himmelhandler @swoolhandler @BUSPH

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

Gratitude to @dwallacewells @nytimes for his coverage of our recent paper, "Missing Americans: Early Death in the U.S., 1933-2021".

https://t.co/eoVdBanoTE

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

The "Missing Americans" offers another way to look at the U.S. mortality disadvantage, which often focuses on differences in life expectancy, e.g.: @shwoolf https://t.co/N2gpWtUKlQ

[Jon Levy @jonlevyBU]

1. Thank you to @BostonGlobe for continuing to shine a light on COVID and its impacts on mortality and morbidity. Since the shift in racial/ethnic patterns of deaths is perhaps a bit surprising, I want to walk through our findings and some hypotheses. 🧵

https://t.co/MiuMmF4BK1

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

But that’s just more future business for the weapons manufacturers… v happy for their shareholders today. Ugh.

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

It is also terrible national security policy. Anyone here feel safer knowing we are doing next to nothing to protect livelihoods and mitigate the climate refugee crisis?

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

This is terrible policy on ethical grounds.

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

Let me get this straight: Congress is planning $858B for military and $1B for climate aid to poor countries. A giant FU to the worlds poor who are already impacted by climate change of our making.

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

That wastewater trend is not good at all. No idea what the peak will be but there seems to have been a significant increase in transmission in the last week or so. Any good explanations?

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

1000s in Franklin Park today for free vaccine event. Major props to ⁦@BPHC⁩ ⁦@OjikutuBisola⁩ ⁦@MayorWu⁩ for this effort!

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

**New Faculty Opening** in our department. (See links below.) BU School of Public Health is a great place to work; DM me if you want to chat about it. (NB: I am not on the search committee.)

[Sandro Galea @sandrogalea]

We are currently running searches for faculty roles in our Environmental and Global Health departments. We look forward to welcoming new community members. @BUSPH https://t.co/vACoqre0cz (Environmental Health) https://t.co/EASGiVawGQ (Global Health)

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

Despite the eastern MA drought, the tomatoes have been resilient!

[Jacob Bor @JacobBor]

#UequalsU in the house @AIDS2022