Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS

🦷 Oral Health Equity Advocate | @uicpublichealth DrPH candidate @JohnsHopkinsSPH & @UCDavis_PHSEDU alumna | 🦁Iranian she/her (opinions are my own)

[UCSF Dental Public Health Postgraduate Program @UCSFdphpostgrad]

We had the best lunch learning about dental public health policy with @tookatooth 🦷😁

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

When my nephew explains what “incendio” and “stupefy” mean

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In case anyone was wondering why affirmative action is important....

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@mellie_jay7 Thanks for listening!

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@Censor__This @APHAOralHealth The study in question was a meta analysis that looked at all studies that looked at optimal fluoridation levels (average 1ppm) and found no effect of optimal fluoride on IQ.

If you claim he “excluded” studies it is because those studies had too high of fluoride for CWF.

[Jasmine Hughes @Jas_Hughes]

The fact that there are multiple candidates for what this linear regression is blows my mind 🤯

(Original, of course: https://t.co/N87MPaNh3g)

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@JessyTheDentist

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Love seeing all the great research my dental colleagues are posting at the International Association for Dental Research Convention! International oral health connections are outstanding 👏🏽

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

Ask: What's a way to say "must do" without using "required" or "mandated"...
Me: "Lady MacBeth'd"

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

Juneteenth doesn’t celebrate the end of slavery when its now transformed into the prison-industrial complex with disproportionate mass incarceration of Black people
It celebrates a start of change and honors the steadfast justice-work and continued fight for freedom

[Fluoridation Society @AFS_Fluoride]

A very strong, evidence-based position statement on CWF. Well done! #prevention #publichealth

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

I miss when Instagram was less noisy

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Nobody wants to transform medical care more than the people working within it

[Tatiana Prowell, MD @tmprowell]

When a doctor tries to get an appt for a family member in the hospital where they practice & spends 36 mins on the phone only to hear the next available appt is in 2024…this system is broken. #MedTwitter

[Mark Lewis, MD, FASCO @marklewismd]

I had a medical student shadow me all day in oncology clinic and, when I asked them at the end what surprised them the most, they paused to reflect & then said “the hope”

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

I acknowledged the music of Queen in my article submission and peer reviewers asked for me to remove it for professionalism… what about Fat Bottomed Girls isn’t professional?!

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@bednarsh_helene @OSAPtweets You’re amazing! Always learning and educating 👏🏽

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@APHAOralHealth It’s the best time of the year!

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@SujayAMehta Yes it is! The history of politics influencing health systems and the persistent inequities from them are so well researched in this book.

[Tooka Zokaie, MPH, MAS @tookatooth]

The Political Determinants of Health and the role of health policy- in a society where discrimination is institutionalized, health equity will not be achieved without policy change.