Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
Population health scientist and demographer. Science thrives on honesty, honor,and commitment to others. Cat dad to two girls who are vying for the record of the longest lived cats.
Mark D. Hayward is an American demographer and sociologist.
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Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Nov 20
Spaces like NASEM and #IAPHS. I have written external promotion and tenure letters for epidemiology , geoscience, health policy, and neuroscience more often in the past 3 years than my home discipline of sociology. My takeaway is that our identities are increasingly fluid as we advance in our
I’m curious what Dems think the response should be to a party that will starve Americans, destroy airlines, create bankruptcies and willingly kill thousands of Americans. It’s not your mom and pop’s GOP. The barbarians are at the gates.
I’m so sorry about your grandma. Dementia is one of the most socially malleable conditions out there. Her onset could be due to a myriad of exposures as well as genetic risk.
I didn’t mind the repeat visit. It’s the mom’s encouragement that took me aback somewhat. 😂
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My research team has published research showing that malnutrition and hunger in childhood are long-term risk factors for dementia decades later in life. Makes me think about the long-term health consequences of withholding SNAP benefits from families.
I asked one set of kids who came to our door on Halloween if theyd already been at my house. They said yes they had…but their mom said it was OK to swing by a second time. Hmmm…some parents need parenting lessons.
I love their formalism. But ignoring decades of work in other fields is not acceptable. A google scholar search will reveal this. Once an economist wrote a paper based on my work. I told him the editor wouldn’t allow him to cite me. He didn’t believe me. I was right and he was stunned. I wasn’t.
Nothing in social science is real until an economist says it. Just ask sociologists and psychologists. As a former social science journal editor, I can attest that the sin is quite common.
I never realized that Trump owned cattle ranches and soy bean farms in Argentina. Who would have guessed?
Before he left, he confessed that he was a polio survivor. It was evident as he walked out of the bar. Yes, we had a lot in common when it came to vaccines.
I gave a keynote at a conference & have been relaxing at the hotel bar. I struck up a conversation with a guy next to me. He asked what I do for a living and I hesitated. I’m a biodemographer and social epidemiologist. This led to an amazing conversation about our nation’s health.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Oct 10
My lab group met today. Grad students and postdocs engaged in cutting edge research on health and aging topics. Every meeting it seems that they have a new article accepted or fascinating results. They’re provocative and fun! The next generation in this area of science. I love it!
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Oct 9
I continue to be stunned at how poor health literacy is in the US. You’d think folks would have learned something during the worst of the pandemic. It almost seems the opposite. Perhaps the COVID “worm” ate people’s brains.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Oct 8
Today in my mortality grad seminar, we focused on what transpired in the US & comparisons with high income countries.The students were shocked by how devastating COVID was to US life expectancy compare to Europe. Then we discussed the Great Barringron Declaration. They were stunned.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Oct 4
A brilliant summary. Thanks.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 23
How Does the Risk of Dementia Change With Each Additional Year of Education? | Demography | Duke University Press
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New evidence showing that educational attainment has a dose-response association with dementia risk throughout the entire distribution of education. 🧪
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Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 19
You deserve kudos for being able to watch this train wreck. I'm low on prozac so avoiding the news media coverage of the vaccines. Got my jab yesterday, and my poor pharmacist was crazy busy giving other folks the jab yesterday too. Clearly, at least some Americans are worried as hell.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 17
Low Birth Rates Are Here To Stay | Opinion
Individuals and families need to be supported by a strong social safety net that includes paid leave and a robust child care infrastructure. There are no quick fixes.
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If you think the far rights’ proposals to raise US birth rates will work, think again. www.newsweek.com/low-birth-ra...
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 12
I so agree with you. It’s almost palpable.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 12
Finally, a UA pilot on my last flight commented about the significance of today. He lost 2 friends who were pilots of the UA flights that crashed that day. I’m really glad he said something.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 12
I was thinking about 9/11 today as I was traipsing around airports. I was surprised by the lack of government attention and the media. 9/11 was a turning point in our history and had wide consequences, e.g., the War on Terror, the establishment of Homeland Security and wars in the Middle East. 1/2
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 9
#IAPHS I’m at a population health science conference in Pittsburgh. Researchers from many disciplines have gathered to talk about ways of improving health, bringing in “cells to society” perspectives. So wonderful at a time when HHS has declared war on the health sciences. Science will triumph.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 7
I’m traveling for biz. Staying at the Westin in Pittsburgh. I’m in the bar and just watched the bartender help out a street person fill their thermos with ice water. I love this place even more. Kindness. It still exists.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 6
It’s shocking isn’t it? I suspect that people actually care more about their pets than they do about kids. A sad state of affairs. Especially for people who are pushing higher fertility.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 6
I continue to have a hard time why Evangelicals and Republicans consciously choose to harm people’s health. That makes my head spin too
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 5
My head spins when I see vaccine resistance—especially for children. Children’s lives in today’s world are at serious risk because of vaccine resistance. How do I know?Because of a real life counterfactual. Yeah, science
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 3
Breaking: RFK Jr. seeks to rush 7 new members to CDC vaccine panel.
We have breaking news that I believe we are first to report here in Inside Medicine.
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Some days I wonder whether Kennedy will start staffing CDC with witch doctors. Clearly, the germ theory of disease has been demoted within CDC.
Some days I wonder whether Kennedy will start staffing CDC with witch doctors. Clearly, the germ theory of disease has been demoted within CDC.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 1
I hear you!
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Sep 1
When the USSR was collapsing, they stopped publishing life tables because life expectancy was rapidly declining between 1974 and 1986. That’s one of the indicators the CIA used to gauge the level of internal rot in the USSR. Makes me wonder whether the US will continue publishing its life tables.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Aug 29
I’d really prefer not to go to Mexico or Canada for my Covid booster. Just saying.
Mark Hayward
@mdhayward.bsky.social
· Aug 28
It makes me wonder whether plastic sandwiches attached to DC residents’ backpacks, briefcases, cars, and bicycles might have a similar effect on the occupation of DC by the military and ICE, our own American Gestapo. Protest with a sense of humor.