PROSPERED

Impact evaluation of health-related social policies and programs around the world. Based @ihsp_mcgill
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[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

Big news! We have updated +added to our longitudinal policy databases, all open access and free to download either from our website or the Harvard Dataverse https://t.co/8Pv1uDBVgS (more details in thread) @CIHR_IRSC @ihsp_mcgill @WPolicyCenter @paid_leave @georgeinstitute

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

A new analysis finds India has “substantially greater” #COVID19 deaths than official reports suggest—close to 3 million, which is more than six times higher than the government has acknowledged and the largest number of any country. https://t.co/GB94TMcEIG

[Sierra Clark @sierraclark2]

Worked on this paper for >3 yrs so happy it is published! We modelled & predicted BP & BMI for 10% of all women in #Accra Ghana & mapped trends at the small-area level within the city to assess #inequalities using #bayesian spatial models 🧵@raphazi1 @guenther_fink

[Sudhvir Singh @sudhvir]

Just out in @TheLancet!

Detailed analysis of @TheIndPanel's day by day chronology of the early months of the #COVID19 pandemic.

Important lessons that must drive reforms to protect global #publichealth.

Thankful to the awesome team who worked on this!

https://t.co/wxBvRRL3rc

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

PROSPERED collaborator Jay Kaufman and others in @bmj_latest: in Canada, decreases in PM2.5 #pollution were associated with lower mortality + increases in PM2.5 were associated with higher mortality, mostly from cardiometabolic and respiratory conditions https://t.co/OXyu5OVWz2

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

An underreported health effect of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States: more than 140,000 U.S. children lost a primary or secondary caregiver due to the COVID-19 pandemic, disproportionately among racial and ethnic minorities https://t.co/SDVQcOURrG

[Brady Seals @bradytoday]

BREAKING News. The @WHO just updated their air quality guidelines. It's huge news. 1st major update in 15 years. We need health-protective guidelines. For many pollutants the new thresholds are HALF what they used to be. Big changes for PM2.5, NO2. SHORT-TERM exposure see here:

[Jason Abaluck @Jabaluck]

With dozens of researchers at Yale, Stanford, Berkeley and IPA and several other organizations, we ran a cluster randomized trial involving almost 350,000 people and 600 villages in Bangladesh to assess the impact of community masking on COVID.

[Dra. Mónica Feliú Mójer @moefeliu]

“It just felt like, Have you talked to any of us?”

Fabulous story by @edyong209. What stands out most is how much science needs to engage beyond disciplines & silos, flip traditional models of expertise to include patients & communities we aim to serve. https://t.co/7Iq05B3ilN

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

PROSPERED member Jay Kaufman FAQs on school COVID safety, Delta: "Less attention needs to go to disinfecting and cleaning, because transmission through surfaces or objects is unlikely... focus has shifted to air quality and ventilation in the classroom." https://t.co/t3iULRxzuS

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

PROSPERED PhD fellow (now graduated) Dr. Caroline King has published a guide to applying Random Forest, a machine learning method, to health administrative data https://t.co/ZTwLqnjgqb @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH

[McGill School of Population and Global Health @McGill_SPGH]

#McGill undergraduate & graduate students have until July 11 to apply to the @ihsp_mcgill Internship program! 7 to 11 awards worth $2K available for the Fall 2021 term + the chance to learn how social conditions affect health and well-being.

Details at https://t.co/43Cd7L9zpY

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

PROSPERED student @follyjan is the author of a systematic review protocol on the impact of abortion law reforms on women’s health services and outcomes in Systematic Reviews. Stay tuned for the review results! @EvidenceRobot #WomensHealth @Guttmacher https://t.co/HP8zQ1Ozwu

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

PROSPERED students @cmjoyce26 and Sherry Hou recently evaluated a new baby-friendly hospital accreditation system developed by @aliveandthrive and found it was associated with increases in early initiation of breastfeeding and exclusive breastfeeding https://t.co/4ZLHE8E420

[Roger Mathisen @MathisenRoger]

NEW PUBLICATION: The Association between a Novel Baby-Friendly Hospital Program and Equitable Support for Breastfeeding in Vietnam. @aliveandthrive @fhi360research @mcgillu @prosperedproj @arijitknandi @Duong95462326 @MathisenRoger @IJERPH_MDPI https://t.co/zDKSvyJYZI

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

We're looking for a graduate student with experience in quantitative methodology & fluent in French for summer RA position evaluating community programs to manage COVID-19 in #Montreal https://t.co/Mfd4tvJzUB @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH @McGillGHP @McGillEBOH

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

We're very pleased that PROSPERED was awarded a @CIHR_IRSC Project Grant for a 3-year study of the impact of a publicly-funded insurance scheme in India on use of maternal and infant health services. We'll be collaborating with some great colleagues at @IIM_Bangalore. Stay tuned!

[Kazuki Yoshida @kaz_yos]

This is what in-person #SER2020 would look like

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

Our fellow @Josec_C finds that homicide, suicide and motor vehicle deaths fell post-lockdown in Peru, although homicide is starting to trend up https://t.co/tEaWQJYUXn Homicides of women (usually IPV) also fell while calls to domestic violence hotlines increased @McGill_SPGH

[PROSPERED @prosperedproj]

Our team member Erin Strumpf asking some tough questions about COVID response in @mtlgazette https://t.co/cXrhBN5L00 @ihsp_mcgill @McGill_SPGH