Lalage Katunga

Scientist 👩🏾‍🔬 🇿🇼🇺🇸 #biotech #medicalaffairs. Improving #healthcare #outcomes. All views are my own.

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

Data Driven decisions.

A key question is what is the level of confidence in the data I need in order to make a decision.

Too little leaves room for doubt, while too much paralyzes action & eliminates competitive advantage.

#decisionmakingframeworks

[Tara Bannow @TaraBannow]

Let this sink in: 9 out of 10 #healthcare companies @MoodysInvSvc considers financial stressed are owned by private equity firms.

“Clearly the private equity industry is realizing this in a very painful way, that you can’t do this.”

https://t.co/ADfClLePHq via @statnews

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

The Lindy Principle:
“People who try to predict the future assume that more is going to change than actually does.
Counterintuitive, but according to the Lindy Principle, the longer something (non perishable) has been around, the longer it's likely to persist into the future.”

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

False Dichotomies - often an unintentional bi- product of making sense of a complex problem.
In an effort to understand - we over simplify.
Before you proceed ask “can both of these be true at the same time”
Sure it’s messier, but at least you are solving the true problem.

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

Plants/ succulents at the entrance to the grocery store are the millennial equivalent of candy in check out aisle for kids

[Jerome Adams @JeromeAdamsMD]

My own wife had a delayed melanoma diagnosis during/ due to the pandemic. Know your ABCDE’s, and if you have any suspicious lesions, get screened! And remember the sunscreen!

Patients present with later stage melanoma during COVID-19 pandemic https://t.co/bwBH04gaiS

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Excited to be part of the conversation!

[VanguardSTEM @VanguardSTEM]

MENTOR SPOTLIGHT

Dr. Lalage Katunga is a Medical Science Liaison at @Roche's @genentech. We featured @lalagekatunga as our #WCWinSTEM back in 2018. Learn about her past work and join us Wed. Jan. 26 @ 6:30pm ET to be mentored by Dr. Katunga! DM us to join!

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

@MatiH_ID @vitendo4africa Congratulations!

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This is exciting news, environment is a critical determinant of #AsthmaOutcomes

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

CA will offer low-income asthma patients new services like mold removal, nontoxic cleaning products and air purifiers. It's part of a large $6B initiative to prevent costly health care, but benefits will be limited, at least initially.

📝: @ahartreports
https://t.co/zqLzXcFNID

[KFF Health News @KFFHealthNews]

CA will offer low-income asthma patients new services like mold removal, nontoxic cleaning products and air purifiers. It's part of a large $6B initiative to prevent costly health care, but benefits will be limited, at least initially.

📝: @ahartreports
https://t.co/zqLzXcFNID

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

Numerous tornado sirens in the STL area today…

[St. Louis Post-Dispatch @stltoday]

Amazon building collapses outside Edwardsville as storms pummel region https://t.co/xvcLzjAmLN

[Richard Kiplagat @rkiplagat]

Africa’s perception war

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

It’s the small things, who thought just asking what women wanted would be so enlightening #womenshealth - @stuboo

[LX News @NBCLX]

Which of these ideas from @stuboo's tweet is your favorite? https://t.co/2WDSVqLIo7

[LX News @NBCLX]

Which of these ideas from @stuboo's tweet is your favorite? https://t.co/2WDSVqLIo7

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

#HarlemOnPrime addressing so many black women’s health/ #reproductivehealth issues with Tye’s story. #fibroids #ovariancysts #underdiagnosis #pain #patientautonomy and unnecessary #hysterectomy

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

In Hawaii…? As if this week hasn’t been crazy enough.

The lower 48 states are lacking in snow but Hawaii has a blizzard warning with 100 mph winds - CNN https://t.co/aTJUWIdPcZ

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

@CareyBaraka The impact on the environment is staggering - I watched a documentary on clothes discarded in the ocean form long ‘tentacles’ strong enough to trap a boat🤯 or are filling up landfills in cities that already have massive difficulties with waste management

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

@thekonyjen Why are we incapable of seeing value in a thing until it is assigned for us?

[Lalage Katunga @LalageKatunga]

@thekonyjen A few other Zim facts for free - the traditional iPhone ring tone is a marimba a Zim instrument; the default flower the on an iPhone screen is a flame lilly - the rare Zim national flower