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Michael D. Green
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SDOH #EpiSky | Unequal Treatment #MedSky | #CardioSky 🫀 Health Equity

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PhD Candidate, Population Health Sciences, Duke Med | 🌲Dartmouth ‘21 |

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · May 1
“Back in the day, we didn’t have all of these new health conditions like autism, asthma, and diabetes! It must be modern medicine’s fault!”

Back in the day:
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 12d
Requesting people change their grant titles b/c you disagree with them certainly does not seem like “radical transparency”, or “gold standard science”. Seems more like “censorship” to me, but who knows…

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 12d
The NIH has insisted there are no banned words

But, an analysis by @jeremymberg.bsky.social found over 700 hundred grants changed their titles from '24 to '25

Some see it as a small price to pay to keep their grant, but others are worried about what comes next

www.statnews.com/2025/10/29/n...
Scientists had to change more than 700 grant titles to receive NIH funding. Health disparities researchers fear what’s next
The titles of more than 700 multi-year NIH grants have been changed this year, according to an analysis by Jeremy Berg, a former agency official
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 18d
Thank you so much!!

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 19d
Thank you!!!

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 19d
Thank you!! Certainly a tough time to pursue this whole academic thing but I’m hopeful that good science will still matter!

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 19d
Passed my dissertation defense 👀🤭
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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 20d
Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs

- Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75%
- Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60%
- Social Sciences by 50–70%
- History by 60%
- Biology by 75%
- The German department will lose all PhD seats
- Sociology from six PhD students to zero
Harvard FAS Cuts Ph.D. Seats By More Than Half Across Next Two Admissions Cycles | News | The Harvard Crimson
The Faculty of Arts and Sciences slashed the number of Ph.D. student admissions slots for the Science division by more than 75 percent and for the Arts & Humanities division by about 60 percent for th...
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 20d
So...

I am hearing from a couple of sources about warnings that citing grants in publications may be used to target investigators for association with "DEI" or other unmentionables.

I am trying to get better information.
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 24d
“Framing this reduction of fellowships solely as a hit to the poor trainees and their career aspirations is perpetuating this mistake.

It would be far better to explain to all and sundry how the reduction in F31 support is a functional reduction in research funding.”

#MedSky

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Drug Monkey @drugmonkey.bsky.social · 24d
F this and F that drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/f...
F this and F that
In Fiscal Year 2024, NIDA funded 7 new F30 (undergraduate) fellowships, 40 new F31 (graduate level) fellowships and 16 new F32 (postdoc) fellowships. So far*, for 2025 they have funded 8 new F30s, …
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 26d
A summary of training, fellowship, and career development awards

Fiscal year 2025 (compared to fiscal year 2024)

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 27d
What I was referring to: www.science.org/content/arti...
Journals and publishers crack down on research from open health data sets
PLOS, Frontiers, and others announce policies trying to stem the tide of suspect research
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 27d
Not entirely related, but this makes me think about how some journals are deciding to auto-reject studies of NHANES data to combat the issue of paper mills. I think a lot of literature muddies the water, but I’m struck by the immense pressures on BOTH our data and the dissemination of good science

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HealthBegins @healthbegins.bsky.social · 27d
"[DEI] policies are not just about providing fair opportunities to all students. They are a matter of life and death."

Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten Americans’ lives www.bmj.com/content/391/... by @gavinyamey.bsky.social @michaeldgreen.com via @bmj.com
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · 27d
Cleansing your feed to let you know that my 1st practice dissertation defense today went well! 8 days left to shape things up and show all I know!

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Jenn Dowd @drjenndowd.bsky.social · Oct 11
Looks like a great opportunity for pop health researchers... #demography #episky
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Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
Two Postdoctoral Researchers on Health Inequalities
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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Oct 10
“The intent of all these actions is clear: to terminate policies that create a diverse medical workforce—one that looks like America—and which has doctors with lived experience that gives them insights into their patients’ lives.”

Because lived experience is critical to the delivery of care #MedSky
bmj.com The BMJ @bmj.com · Oct 10
The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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The BMJ @bmj.com · Oct 10
The Trump administration and its allies have taken several steps to ensure that medical schools in the US dismantle all diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.

It is patients who will be the victims of this, write @gavinyamey.bsky.social and @michaeldgreen.com
www.bmj.com/content/391/...

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Oct 10
@ianlmorgan.bsky.social laying out how early career researchers are particularly being harmed in this moment. I think most of us would LOVE “radical transparency” and increased innovation in research. Right now we are facing the exact opposite
We no longer have access to equipment service contracts, lab managers, technicians, and training programs due to the cancellation of $2.6 billion (35 percent) of NIH contract spending. Without equipment service contracts, we now have to choose between paying exorbitant fees or giving up on research projects entirely when our equipment inevitably breaks down. With the ongoing hiring freeze, highly trained early career researchers can no longer transition to more permanent positions at the NIH, so we are losing top talent who want to stay in the United States and contribute their unique skills to our economy but are now being forced to look elsewhere.

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Oct 10
Thank you for all you do! It gives me hope that despite attempts to make it grim, there is a future possible where we still innovate and improve the health of people!

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Oct 10
YES!

We cite evidence showing: Black patients wait longer in the ER to be seen by a clinician (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26454472/), clinicians show racial bias in their assessment of a patient's credibility (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24378807/), & there are large racial inequalities in health outcomes

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Oct 10
In a country where the race, gender, ethnicity, and SES of individuals dramatically shape their lived experience and health outcomes, claiming that medicine is blind to these factors is malpractice!

Even if it’s complicated, it’s still important to think about diversity, equity, and inclusion!

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · Oct 10
🚨In a new piece that I co-authored with @michaeldgreen.com for @bmj.com, we argue that Trump's war on DEI in medical education will damage the health of Americans

We present research evidence showing that a diverse medical workforce improves population health outcomes

www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Trump’s war on diversity in medical education could shorten Americans’ lives
Building a diverse medical workforce is a crucial step to improving population health outcomes, write Gavin Yamey and Michael D Green The Trump administration and its allies have recently taken seve...
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Sudarshan Krishnamurthy @sudkrishnamurthy.bsky.social · Oct 4
Not a typical post (🧵) on here, but just over 6 months ago, I successfully defended my dissertation alongside friends, family, my committee, and many loved ones. It was a wonderful day, and I have so many people to thank for their support over the past 3 years and more!

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Front page of Sud’s dissertation titled ‘Investigating the Relationships of Place-based Social Determinants of Health and Structural Racism with Measures of Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias”. The rest of the text on the title page reads as follows: BY SUDARSHAN KRISHNAMURTHY A Dissertation Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for the Degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Molecular Medicine and Translational Science May 2025 Winston-Salem, North Carolina Approved By: Timothy M. Hughes, PhD, MPH, Advisor James R. Bateman, MD, MPH, Chair Sarah N. Forrester, PhD, MS Da Ma, PhD Ellen Quillen, PhD Christopher Whitlow, MD, PhD Sud standing in a dark blue suit and blue shirt grinning as he wears a sash that reads “Ph.inisheD”.

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Oct 3
Initial submission of my dissertation is out the door 🫡. Clearly an easy task during these lighthearted and untroubling times.

I’m even hearing this is the best time in a while to be an expert in something!

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Michael D. Green @michaeldgreen.phd · Sep 26
Curious about the implications of this for Masters students?? A lot of people don’t go straight from undergrad…

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Max Jordan Nguemeni @maxjordan.bsky.social · Sep 26
As a physician-scientist who was recently on an H-1B, studying many things including the physician workforce, last week’s executive order hit home. I wrote about it, and what it could mean for healthcare in the US, especially in Rural America. On Adverse Reaction! open.substack.com/pub/adverser...
Killing Rural Hospitals by Executive Order
The government claims it cares about rural healthcare. Its actions say otherwise.
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Rita Hamad @ritahamad.bsky.social · Sep 25
Latest horrifying news on Trump administration erasing national data: they're ending data collection on food security by Census. Explanation of why this is a big deal: updates.dataindex.us/archive/fors... @npi.ucanr.edu @donmoyn.bsky.social @centeronbudget.bsky.social @popassocamerica.bsky.social
Forsaking Food Security
by Chris Dick and Beth Jarosz How often are Americans concerned that their food will run out before they have money to buy more? Or that they did not have...
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