Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
kellymdoran.bsky.social
Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
@kellymdoran.bsky.social
Emergency physician & researcher. Health x Housing Lab Co-Director. Tweets my own / not my employer’s. RT ≠ endorse.
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Happening now! #HxHLab seminar on housing interventions for young adults. 👇
📣We’re hiring for a Research Scientist! Looking for a PhD-level candidate passionate about health and housing with expertise in qualitative research, community-engaged research, academic research processes, and excellent writing skills. emxsdohlab.mailchimpsites.com/senior-resea...
Senior Research Scientist
emxsdohlab.mailchimpsites.com
October 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The current crisis of homelessness is part of a long history of trauma. “With the Inwood shelter, the Bowery Residents’ Committee and the Department of Social Services are hoping to bring attention to how the traumas of the past continue to play out in the present.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/n...
They Were Building a Homeless Shelter. But the Land had a Grim Past.
www.nytimes.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
📣Our next Health x Housing Lab & Health & Housing Consortium Flipping the Script event, where panels of people w/lived experience share their knowledge, will focus on homelessness & substance use. Oct 1. Register now! portal.healthandhousingconsortium.org/events/Event...
portal.healthandhousingconsortium.org
September 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Urging everyone to watch and *share* this powerful video from @invisiblepeople.tv. Criminalization of homelessness does not work.
Fined. Arrested. Still Nowhere to Live.
youtu.be/yZg14Ln3hGw
July 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Reposted by Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
Bay Area friends: I’ll be joining KQED Forum live tomorrow (7/22) at 9am PST, along with @mkushel.bsky.social. The conversation will be hosted by @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social.
Working Yet Homeless in America | KQED
We talk to journalist Brian Goldstone and Dr. Margot Kushel, Director of the Benioff Homelessness and Housing Initiative, about the experience of having a job but not housing.
www.kqed.org
July 22, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Important new article led by @maxjordan.bsky.social - shows that USMLE QBanks often present patients experiencing homelessness in ways that are stereotypical & stigmatizing. This is how med students learn —> important implications for care. We need to do a lot of work / retraining here.
My latest, with @kellydoran.bsky.social: In 2 major USMLE Step 1 & 2 Qbanks, vignettes with patients experiencing homelessness overrepresented HIV, TB, & substance use, underrepresented top causes of death like CV disease & cancer, & often used stigmatizing language link.springer.com/article/10.1...
July 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Glad to be a guest on this NPR WABE podcast on homelessness and health. urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Health of the Unhoused
Podcast Episode · Health Wanted · 06/06/2025 · 51m
urldefense.com
June 6, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Homelessness is rising among older adults, driven by lack of affordable housing paired with a late Baby Boom cohort effect (entire generation coming of age amidst recession and poor job opportunities). Good deep dive in @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/u...
How a Generation’s Struggle Led to a Record Surge in Homelessness
www.nytimes.com
May 28, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Reposted by Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
I was thrilled to comment on the great work of Veronica Garrison, @cepollack.bsky.social, and others about their new nationwide measure of multiple housing challenges, including quality, affordability, and neighborhoods. ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Advancing a Research and Policy Agenda on Housing and Health | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 5
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Did you miss the webinar? The recording will be posted at our Health x Housing Lab Resource Library site. You can also sign up for our email list on the bottom of the page so you don’t miss any future events or announcements! #HxHLab mailchi.mp/7a6b40894adc...
May 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Happening now! #HxHLab seminar on housing interventions for young adults. 👇
May 27, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Reposted by Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
Many people who exp homelessness work all day--the public just doesn't see them or recognize them. (Neighbors fought against these homeless shelters for working folks, too)
Strongly recommend @brian-goldstone.bsky.social book "There is no place for us" to learn more.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/08/n...
When They Go Home After Working All Day, It’s Not to a Home (Gift Article)
Thousands of working people in New York City now live in shelters, unable to afford apartments despite holding down jobs that pay them $50,000 or more.
www.nytimes.com
April 8, 2025 at 9:46 PM
📣 Spread the word - our next Health x Housing Lab Research Seminar — “Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults” — will be May 27. Attend to learn from academic and lived experience researchers. Registration now open: urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...
Welcome! You are invited to join the Health x Housing Lab seminar, Centering Youth Voices: Community-Driven Housing Interventions for Young Adults. After registering, you will receive a confirmation e...
You are invited to a virtual research seminar highlighting community engagement in research on housing and service interventions for young adults. Sarah Narendorf, PhD, LCSW and Aryeana Straughter w...
urldefense.com
April 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Sharing this excellent commentary by my colleague Giselle Routhier (co-director of the Health x Housing Lab) on advancing a health and housing research & policy agenda, in @amjpublichealth.bsky.social ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/abs/10.2...
Advancing a Research and Policy Agenda on Housing and Health | AJPH | Vol. 115 Issue 5
American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) from the American Public Health Association (APHA)
ajph.aphapublications.org
April 23, 2025 at 7:54 PM
📖 New open access article by our team on staff views on overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing — partnered research w/Corporation for Supportive Housing. rdcu.be/eik9I
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@springernature.com
Staff views on overdose prevention in permanent supportive housing
rdcu.be
April 21, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Happening now - Flipping the Script seminar where panelists with lived experience of homelessness share about their experiences with medical respite care. Hosted by NYU School of Medicine Health x Housing Lab and the Health & Housing Consortium.
April 8, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Feeling hopeful for the next generation — amazing art+research project on mental health, community, and homelessness put together by high school students in the CUP Urban Investigations program welcometocup.org/projects/a-c...
A Call for Care
Students investigate community-led mental health crisis intervention.
welcometocup.org
April 4, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📣Registration still open for our virtual event next week:
Flipping the Script: A Teach-In for Healthcare Workers on Homelessness & Medical Respite Care
April 8 11a EST
Hosted by the Health x Housing Lab at NYU School of Medicine

nyulangone.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Flipping the Script: A Teach-In for Healthcare Workers on Homelessness and Medical Respite Care. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email ab...
Individuals experiencing homelessness often have complex medical and behavioral health needs. For those who end up hospitalized, their lack of stable housing can be a barrier to safe discharge. When t...
nyulangone.zoom.us
April 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
For any residents still looking for fellowships: NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship - 1-yr program tailored for physicians (FM, IM, EM) committed to social medicine to learn about healthcare in shelters, mobile units & outreach settings. nychomelesshealthcarefellowship.org/nyc-homeless...
NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship
NYC Homeless Healthcare Fellowship - Training physicians to provide high-quality care for our most marginalized neighbors in New York City.
nychomelesshealthcarefellowship.org
March 20, 2025 at 6:45 PM
📣 Will be presenting with @laurenevelez.bsky.social about our work on overdose prevention in supportive housing at this March 19 webinar hosted by the Canadian HF Network, HF Europe Hub, and the Evidence Exchange Network. More info & register here: kmb.camh.ca/eenet/events...
March 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
"When work no longer provides stability, when wages are too low and rents are too high, when millions of people are one medical bill, one missed paycheck, one rent hike away from losing their homes — who, exactly, is safe?"

ICYMI, a gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...
March 3, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Truly no words. 😢
(TW: child death)
This is gutting and infuriating beyond words.

A mother in Detroit, desperate for help, reached out *three times* to the city’s homeless response team—to no avail—before her two children froze to death in a van. There was shelter space available nearby.

The system failed them, as it fails so many.
February 12, 2025 at 6:20 AM
“Living in interesting times” - 0 of 10, do not recommend. 😞
January 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Violence—physical, emotional and other—toward people experiencing homelessness spans the globe. Powerful pictures — top right: “we are not invisible; we exist” (@invisiblepeople thought of you). #ijohconf25 (1/)
January 20, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Reposted by Kelly Doran, MD, MHS
“Throughout literature, sleep has been a metaphor for death. But, in real life, sleep should mean neither death nor arrest.” My piece on the murder of Debrina Kawam on a NYC subway—& the connections to Grants Pass

www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...
Opinion | Debrina Kawam's death proves even sleeping can be risky for the homeless
A brutal murder on a New York City subway made national headlines. But left unsaid was how frequently people experiencing homelessness are killed — often while asleep.
www.msnbc.com
January 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM