Sampedro

Public Health (PhD), MBBS, MPH. GP (MRCGP) and primary care researcher. (Public health is my passion, primary care is my day job 😊)

[Sampedro @samlassa]

My naija pple while we are on lock down, are you a bit confused about the reasoning behind the new lock down due to Covid-19. Here are some quick points:
@DrDelwu (co-author) @YarKafanchan @AbujaDiscourse #Nigeria #Covid_19 👇a thread. #TakeResponsibility

[Sampedro @samlassa]

😂😂😂😂😂. Already there boss

[G.K. @freyizit]

Cape Verde is going to the World Cup. @samlassa Now we can seriously buy World Cup tickets.
Abeg make we start to de prepare. 😂😂

[Sampedro @samlassa]

Very sad news

[Dr Neil Shastri-Hurst MP @DrNShastriHurst]

After 183 years, Mount St Mary’s College & Barlborough Hall School are closing their doors. Another victim of Labour’s reckless VAT raid on education. This isn’t reform - it’s educational vandalism.

Excellence punished. Choice destroyed.

[Sampedro @samlassa]

😂 omo he is oohhhh

[G.K. @freyizit]

Finally…Burna boy is who he really thinks he is. @samlassa

[Sampedro @samlassa]

Most of those passports are going to be used for japa 👀

[LEADERSHIP NEWS @LeadershipNGA]

We’ve Over 80,000 Passports Booklets In Stock – Minister https://t.co/snqPMZWXgL

[Sampedro @samlassa]

@freyizit You need a neck brace

[Amina Yonis, PhD @DrAminaYonis]

A literature review isn't a REVIEW without including critical discussion.

But, many students don't know how to add critique to their discussion.

Here's the structure for an academic critical discussion:

[Amina Yonis, PhD @DrAminaYonis]

The use of proper academic language can be the difference between a publishable paper or a rejected paper.

Here are some common terms that you can include in different parts of your research paper, to help level up your academic writing:

[G.K. @freyizit]

The ideal age to get married, with the least likelihood of divorce in the first five years, is 28 to 32,”
“Called the 'Goldilocks theory,' the idea is that people at this age are not too old and not too young.”
I talked with my mate..@samlassa

https://t.co/S9eFOx0hPY

[Rakesh Parashar @Ra_Parashar]

Excellent reflections by panellists on understanding the health workforce heterogeneity and policy requirements better. Several frontiers and opportunities for advancing the health workforce science globally as put by @JimC_HRH
@docsheikh

[UCL Global Business School for Health @ucl_GBSH]

Join us on 25 April at 1-2 PM BST for a #GBSH webinar on health workforce heterogeneity in #LMICs. Our panel will explore governance approaches to manage diverse health provider systems effectively. 🌍🩺 Register now: https://t.co/vGlq4wdqUn #UCL

[Professor Julie Balen @Ju_B81]

A fantastic event, featuring, among others, the wonderful @samlassa - who I'm very proud to say was my first PhD student (some years back!)

Definitely worth registering for... !

[Kabir Sheikh @docsheikh]

Register! @JimC_HRH @hkumed Sam Lassa @mjschleiff @harvylight #HealthSystemsatGBSH #HPSR

[G.K. @freyizit]

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@samlassa
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[Dr Kareem Carr @kareem_carr]

Four life lessons I learned while studying statistics:

1. False positives vs false negatives: Fewer false positives often come at the cost of more false negatives and vice versa.

LIFE LESSON: The less stringent your criteria, the more crap you need to deal with, but the more stringent your criteria, the more genuinely good stuff you miss out on.

Missed opportunities is the price of never wasting your time. Wasting your time is the price of never missing an opportunity.

2. Overfitting vs Underfitting: Less flexible models can't fit the data. More flexible models are prone to picking up patterns that don't generalize.

LIFE LESSON: Over-thinking makes you more vulnerable to seeing patterns that aren't there. It turns you into a misinformation machine.

3. Bias vs Variance: More complex models give less consistent answers. Less complex models give more biased answers.

LIFE LESSON: There is a natural trade-off between nuanced thought and consensus.

People get mad when experts disagree especially when non-experts don't but that's actually what you would expect.

4. Curse of Dimensionality: Given a fixed amount of scenarios to learn from, there's a point beyond which considering additional factors stops helping.

LIFE LESSON: If you haven't experienced much, keep things simple. Nuance without experience is actively harmful.

SUMMARY:
The common theme I see is these are cautionary tales for over-thinkers like me. There are hard mathematical limitations on what we can possibly know as rational beings.

There is wisdom in knowing when to think but there's also wisdom in knowing when to stop.

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

BACK-TO-BACK #AUSOPEN TITLES FOR ARYNA SABALENKA!

The World No. 2 defeats Zheng Qinwen 6-3, 6-2 in the final for her second major 🏆

[Dr. Glaucomflecken @DGlaucomflecken]

I really need people to understand the eye is an organ, like the brain, heart, and kidney. It’s a very delicate organ. Don’t do this. Don’t fuck with your organs.

[IJHPM @IJHPM]

#PowerDynamics Among Health Professionals in #Nigeria: A Case Study of the Global Fund Policy Process

https://t.co/YD18GTFKqk

https://t.co/tjwDTywij4

#GlobalHealth #SociologyofProfessions #IJHPM #GlobalFund #HealthPolicy #OriginalArticle

@samlassa
@misaddiq

[Sarah Dalglish @sarahdlish.bsky.social @Sarah_Dlish]

Thank you @samlassa et al for engaging with our commentaries!

Great the way @IJHPM is facilitating discussions amongst scholars & shedding new light on medical power, #GlobalHealth financing, professionalism, colonial legacies and other critical topics! 🙌🏻

[Sampedro @samlassa]

Excited to share our latest paper in @IJHPM on power dynamics in Global Health @misaddiq @Ju_B81. Many thanks to @veena_sriram @Ra_Parashar @Sarah_Dlish @AKapilashrami Garrett Wallace for all your insightful and engaging commentary papers on this topic.
https://t.co/31IAJqhUNC

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

🆕 @Nature
The danger of Molnupiravar: extensive evidence of specific #SARCoV2 mutations this drug has induced across the world which can be passed along from people who do not clear the virus
https://t.co/1cEDsYcoft @theosanderson @LongDesertTrain @Chris3Ruis @PeacockFlu