Michelle Roberts, MS, MA

PhD Candidate @universityofky | NIMHD F31 Predoctoral Fellow | Medical Anthropologist & Community-Engaged Public Health Researcher | #DisabilityJustice

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

I've enjoyed working with our team on such a timely topic. Thanks to all those who contributed!

[Esther Choo, MD MPH @choo_ek]

The outcomes from COVID are not live vs die. There is a world of suffering, morbidity, and disability in between.

[Jasmyn @JasmynBeKnowing]

This woman on the news just said, imagine if there was a medication that reduced your chances of getting COVID by 5x. Everyone would want that medication.

Well, that's wearing a mask.

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

Happy Juneteenth!

[Edwin Lindo ✊🏾 @EdwinLindo]

Happy Juneteenth!

Juneteenth should be a holiday and never be forgotten.

Juneteenth means that two years after emancipation (and we’ll get into the details), White Texans held on to slavery as long as they could. That’s white supremacy.

Stop holding on to white supremacy.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Original Juneteenth order found in National Archives https://t.co/nfNI7OCZ2K

[Amanda Latimore, PhD @LatimoreAmanda]

I started blogging for Psychology Today. Here's my first post!

What Behavioral Health Can Do Now to Respond to COVID19

https://t.co/QDKZaHrOZh

[Clare Wenham @clarewenham]

I say it again. Politics drives epidemics

[Edwin Lindo ✊🏾 @EdwinLindo]

Estell Williams: Mentoring the Next Generation of Black Doctors

In the event you didn’t know, my partner and love is absolutely amazing - and that’s just by being herself. on top of that, she uplifts the future in beautiful ways. @drwooda 🤗

https://t.co/LL4gPRv1E1

[Samantha Yammine, PhD @heysciencesam]

I refuse to believe non-Black academics have no time to educate themselves on things they can do to oppose anti-Black racism.

We all dropped everything we were doing to learn about and respond to COVID-19, you can do the same for the epidemic of anti-Black violence.

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

@GYamey For what it’s worth, thanks for being my “idiot” professor at Duke. Much appreciated.

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

People need to be able to vote in order to create change. While it should be that simple, it rarely is in practice.

[Ari Berman @AriBerman]

Wisconsin was a wake up call. Georgia was a siren.

If we don’t urgently expand vote by mail AND make it easy to vote safely in person, millions will be disenfranchised in November & legitimacy of 2020 election will be questioned https://t.co/VP5vkYs4BM

[Mya Roberson, MSPH, PhD @MyaLRoberson]

For academics (especially White academics, but this goes for everyone) reading #BlackintheIvory and wondering how you can support Black students and academics here is a thread of things to consider a number which have been especially supportive of my own professional development

[Gabrielle Blair @designmom]

This is how I, a 45-year-old white woman and mother of 6, currently at her peak Karen power, went from assuming police work was a necessary part of functional communities, to becoming a passionate advocate for #abolishthepolice #defundthepolice, over the course of one week.

1/x

[NPR @NPR]

Dozens of public health and disease experts have signed an open letter in support of the nationwide anti-racism protests.

"White supremacy is a lethal public health issue that predates and contributes to COVID-19," they wrote.
https://t.co/yFjEN5VlVS

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

If you aren’t reading #BlackintheIvory, you need to.

[Michelle Roberts, MS, MA @robkmichelle]

Anyone who thinks that academics are too educated to be racist and have unconscious (and conscious) biases isn’t paying attention. But, we can’t pay attention - we have to act.

[Akilah Johnson @akjohnson1922]

1/ There’s been a lot on Twitter about how protests could spread coronavirus.

I recently talked to black protesters in DC. They KNOW about coronavirus. They especially know it’s killing black Americans at double the rate of others.

It’s part of why they’re out here (THREAD)

[Dr. Alison Bateman-House @ABatemanHouse]

#PublicHealth (& life) requires nuanced thought. If the recommendation is, “stay home,” that doesn’t mean stay inside your house if it catches on fire. As situations change, recommendations may change 1

[Edwin Lindo ✊🏾 @EdwinLindo]

Seattle, it is a national conversation. The @nytimes write about The #healthcareworkersforjustice protest today!

This is what the beginning of justice looks like. @JennyDurkan @kcexec @JayInslee - @drwooda, myself, and 10,000 healthcare workers are waiting for a response.

[Edwin Lindo ✊🏾 @EdwinLindo]

This is what revolutionary love looks like. We fight for justice together.

Love you, @drwooda. Wouldn’t want to do this without you! ✊🏾

#BlackLivesMattters
#healthcareworkers4justice
#doctorsforjustice