Camilo Erazo Leiva, MD, MBA
@camiloerazol.bsky.social
At the intersection of Digital Health, Health Equity, NCDs
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It’s one thing to withdraw from global health
It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals
NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!
healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...
It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals
NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!
healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...
BREAKING: UN Declaration On Noncommunicable Diseases Fails To Win Approval After US Foils Consensus - Health Policy Watch
NEW YORK CITY - A painstakingly negotiated Political Declaration on Noncommunicable Diseases with overwhelming support from UN member states failed to win
healthpolicy-watch.news
September 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
It’s one thing to withdraw from global health
It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals
NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!
healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...
It’s another thing to block other nations from global initiatives and goals
NO ONE COUNTRY SHOULD HAVE SO MUCH POWER!!!
healthpolicy-watch.news/un-declarati...
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My thanks and congratulations to world leaders for showing their strong support for #UNGA political declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health: bit.ly/4mH6S2L
September 26, 2025 at 4:11 PM
My thanks and congratulations to world leaders for showing their strong support for #UNGA political declaration on noncommunicable diseases and mental health: bit.ly/4mH6S2L
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My quote of the day
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
September 26, 2025 at 11:12 AM
My quote of the day
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
Octavio Paz
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There are many smart, well-read people on this app, which is why it’s so disappointing to see people turn to misinformation/disinformation and personal attacks because they are understandably traumatized by Trump.
May 15, 2025 at 6:42 PM
There are many smart, well-read people on this app, which is why it’s so disappointing to see people turn to misinformation/disinformation and personal attacks because they are understandably traumatized by Trump.
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One of the arguments for scaling back the ACA Medicaid expansion is that enrollees are "able-bodied" and don't need health care.
44% of Medicaid expansion enrollees have a chronic condition.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
44% of Medicaid expansion enrollees have a chronic condition.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
April 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
One of the arguments for scaling back the ACA Medicaid expansion is that enrollees are "able-bodied" and don't need health care.
44% of Medicaid expansion enrollees have a chronic condition.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
44% of Medicaid expansion enrollees have a chronic condition.
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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"... less than 1/3 of studies have addressed the ethical (32.8%) and patient safety (32.1%) implications of clinical LLM integration, [...] only 16.1% have addressed the regulatory gaps..."
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"... less than 1/3 of studies have addressed the ethical (32.8%) and patient safety (32.1%) implications of clinical LLM integration, [...] only 16.1% have addressed the regulatory gaps..."
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
"... less than 1/3 of studies have addressed the ethical (32.8%) and patient safety (32.1%) implications of clinical LLM integration, [...] only 16.1% have addressed the regulatory gaps..."
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
April 28, 2025 at 8:21 PM
"... less than 1/3 of studies have addressed the ethical (32.8%) and patient safety (32.1%) implications of clinical LLM integration, [...] only 16.1% have addressed the regulatory gaps..."
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Stark contrast with explosive adoption in Chinese hospitals in early '25. 🤯
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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New post by me:
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking
I respond to the claim that the decline in cancer mortality is mostly, or almost entirely, because of the decline in smoking.
www.scientificdiscovery.dev
April 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New post by me:
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
The decline in cancer mortality is about much more than smoking. We shouldn't minimize the very real impact of many contributors — including improvements in diagnosis, medical and surgical innovation, vaccination against cancers, and more — to the reduction in cancer death rates.
Cool, but why is he wearing a mask on a telemedicine consultation??
April 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Cool, but why is he wearing a mask on a telemedicine consultation??
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April 11, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.
Hey! It's bad! arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
2/3 cut in astrophysics
2/3 cut in heliophysics
50% cut in Earth science
30% cut in planetary science
This is just such an incredible self-own, what are we doing?
2/3 cut in astrophysics
2/3 cut in heliophysics
50% cut in Earth science
30% cut in planetary science
This is just such an incredible self-own, what are we doing?
Trump White House budget proposal eviscerates science funding at NASA
“This would decimate American leadership in space.”…
arstechnica.com
April 11, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The cuts "would kill the much-anticipated Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, an observatory seen as on par with [Hubble & JWST] that is already fully assembled and on budget for a launch in two years." Would also apparently close NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Huge, HUGE loss for science.
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Universities. Maybe check how many courses you have that discuss the many successes of appeasement.
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Universities. Maybe check how many courses you have that discuss the many successes of appeasement.
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Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc... #llms #machinelearning #MLSky (not surprising but important to document)
Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models
AbstractObjectives. To determine the extent to which current large language models (LLMs) can serve as substitutes for traditional machine learning (ML) as
academic.oup.com
April 8, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Large language models are less effective at clinical prediction tasks than locally trained machine learning models academic.oup.com/jamia/advanc... #llms #machinelearning #MLSky (not surprising but important to document)
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Hm - wish someone would have told us that stock markets plummet and have a lot more volatility in the second term of a politician like Trump. Oh, wait, I wrote that last summer w/Roberto Foa in the Harvard Biz Review: hbr.org/2024/10/when...
When Populists Rise, Economies Usually Fall
Business leaders are quick to abhor left-wing populism, with its government giveaways to supporters, spending on boondoggle projects, and disregard for financial discipline and investor confidence. Th...
hbr.org
April 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Hm - wish someone would have told us that stock markets plummet and have a lot more volatility in the second term of a politician like Trump. Oh, wait, I wrote that last summer w/Roberto Foa in the Harvard Biz Review: hbr.org/2024/10/when...
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Unrelated to measles & tariffs, I am glad to see this in @nytimes.com …
Our kids are certainly suffering due to lots of systems problems that the pandemic worsened; but to blame it all on “lockdowns” is disingenuous at best
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Our kids are certainly suffering due to lots of systems problems that the pandemic worsened; but to blame it all on “lockdowns” is disingenuous at best
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
The Pandemic Is Not the Only Reason U.S. Students Are Losing Ground
For years, the country’s lowest-scoring students were steadily improving on national tests. Starting around 2013, something changed.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Unrelated to measles & tariffs, I am glad to see this in @nytimes.com …
Our kids are certainly suffering due to lots of systems problems that the pandemic worsened; but to blame it all on “lockdowns” is disingenuous at best
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
Our kids are certainly suffering due to lots of systems problems that the pandemic worsened; but to blame it all on “lockdowns” is disingenuous at best
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
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NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
April 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
NEW 🧵
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
A quick thread of charts showing how Trump’s economic agenda is going so far:
1) US consumers are reacting very very negatively.
These are the worst ratings for any US government’s economic policy since records began.
"The statements “more people have diabetes in the US than ever before” and “fewer people are getting diabetes than in the 90s” are both true and both misleading."
Great post on the complexity of diabetes in the US during the last decades gidmk.substack.com/p/diabetes-r... by @gidmk.bsky.social
Great post on the complexity of diabetes in the US during the last decades gidmk.substack.com/p/diabetes-r... by @gidmk.bsky.social
Diabetes Rates Have Been Falling For Over A Decade
The complexity of chronic disease
gidmk.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 2:22 PM
"The statements “more people have diabetes in the US than ever before” and “fewer people are getting diabetes than in the 90s” are both true and both misleading."
Great post on the complexity of diabetes in the US during the last decades gidmk.substack.com/p/diabetes-r... by @gidmk.bsky.social
Great post on the complexity of diabetes in the US during the last decades gidmk.substack.com/p/diabetes-r... by @gidmk.bsky.social
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Reposted by Camilo Erazo Leiva, MD, MBA
Proud to call the smart, compassionate and fearless @jeffstein.bsky.social a colleague and a friend.
April 3, 2025 at 3:13 AM
Proud to call the smart, compassionate and fearless @jeffstein.bsky.social a colleague and a friend.
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She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Bletchley Park code breaker Betty Webb dies aged 101
Betty Webb MBE worked at Bletchley Park during World War Two intercepting enemy messages.
www.bbc.com
April 1, 2025 at 12:05 PM
She died in binary. That’s dedication. RIP.
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to be clear, this is a major problem with the Great Man myth of science. Because Einstein is very very famous, it's easy to ignore the fact that his work was
1. based on others' work
2. built in collaboration with others and
3. tested thoroughly in a number of ways by people who weren't him
1. based on others' work
2. built in collaboration with others and
3. tested thoroughly in a number of ways by people who weren't him
"Einstein was wrong" crackpots are by far the most boring and uncreative of all (and often antisemitic to boot, 'cause they can't stand a Jew being smarter than they are). You, an uneducated crank, are not going to disprove theories that have *many* experiments and observations to back them up.
March 28, 2025 at 3:23 PM
to be clear, this is a major problem with the Great Man myth of science. Because Einstein is very very famous, it's easy to ignore the fact that his work was
1. based on others' work
2. built in collaboration with others and
3. tested thoroughly in a number of ways by people who weren't him
1. based on others' work
2. built in collaboration with others and
3. tested thoroughly in a number of ways by people who weren't him
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“Every child has the right to health. Our best defence against infectious diseases is continued investment in life-saving immunisations for all” - read @who.int’s statement on why fully-funding Gavi is a “lifeline for child survival”: bit.ly/3DYbtgI
Fully-funded Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, is a lifeline for child survival, says WHO
Safeguarding children and adolescents from deadly, yet preventable diseases, such as polio, measles, diphtheria, pertussis, human papillomavirus and tetanus, among others, is the foundation of the Exp...
bit.ly
March 28, 2025 at 2:39 PM
“Every child has the right to health. Our best defence against infectious diseases is continued investment in life-saving immunisations for all” - read @who.int’s statement on why fully-funding Gavi is a “lifeline for child survival”: bit.ly/3DYbtgI
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Every. Single. Time.
March 28, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Every. Single. Time.
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Looking for good teaching material: case study from a low or middle-income country of a healthcare innovation that was successfully adopted and transformed patient outcomes. Got some old examples, looking for a recent one. THANKS if you can suggest. #healthpolicy #digitalhealth
March 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Looking for good teaching material: case study from a low or middle-income country of a healthcare innovation that was successfully adopted and transformed patient outcomes. Got some old examples, looking for a recent one. THANKS if you can suggest. #healthpolicy #digitalhealth
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The American Diabetes Association issued a statement regarding NIH's discontinuation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study:
"Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention."
diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...
"Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention."
diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...
American Diabetes Association Statement on Canceled National Diabetes Prevention Program Funding | American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association® (ADA) is extremely concerned about the impact of canceled National Institutes of Health funding on the success of the National Diabetes Prevention Program (National ...
diabetes.org
March 19, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The American Diabetes Association issued a statement regarding NIH's discontinuation of the landmark Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study:
"Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention."
diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...
"Eliminating funding means the loss of a decade’s worth of important findings and progress toward diabetes prevention."
diabetes.org/newsroom/pre...