Social determinants of health (SDOH) are often overlooked in policy-making, leading to individual-focused health initiatives.

In @thelancetph.bsky.social, authors call for a shift from individual accountability to systemic solutions to address SDOH: tinyurl.com/2s44vyuc

New preprint up!

Evaluation of Amyloid Removal as a Surrogate for Cognitive Decline: Pilot Analysis in Individual-Level Data from the A4 Study of Solanezumab

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Recent Innovations in Peer Programs for Socially Isolated Older Adults: Implications for Public Health Emergency Preparedness. #geriatrics #socialisolation #medsky agsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Postdoc at University of Michigan Institute for Social Research--How social environment shapes biological processes of aging :

careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... #episky #demography #publichealth

Interested in social epidemiology but don't have access to formal training, or do you want more than your current training program offers? Check out new online course from University of Toronto, including lectures from yours truly on social policy evaluation: leongcentre.utoronto.ca/social-epide...

There’s a lot of amazing work at #SER2025 but this DAG poetry art poster is the best poster I’ve seen at any research conference in a decade

@epidbydesign.bsky.social

NEW! Alzheimer’s Disease Facts & Figures 2025. This year’s special report examines attitudes towards early detection, testing and new treatments.

92% of Americans want a medication to slow progression following a diagnosis

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#AlzResearch

I like this paper: not only does it review of all the reasons standardized coefficients are bad, actually,

It also then goes on to show how test statistics can be used as measures of unique contribution/ effect size! - something that just sounds so so wrong!

#stats

doi.org/10.1080/0003...

The biggest project I've worked on for the last chunk of years was just published. It asks, how big are US Black-white lifespan differences?

This might seem like a narrow question. I hope to convince you by the end that there are answers you didn't anticipate. And I hope some of them will move you.

2/2 the foreword for the new edition is at \https://www.bristol.ac.uk/media-library/sites/integrative-epidemiology/documents/Foreword%20-%20Life%20course%20book.pdf @uob-ieu.bsky.social

Good news alert! The 2023 American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year files is now available on IPUMS USA. Join us in our data joy 🎉 usa.ipums.org

From some slides I made on #difference-in-differences:

I came up with a checklist (geared towards people seeing DID for the first time).

I know @pedrosantanna.bsky.social has a great checklist already (which I have fully adopted). This is meant to be an intro to that type of thinking.

Hearing on NIH indirect cost cuts today (2/21) at 10am (EST). Judge Angel Kelley of U.S. District Court in Boston — Courtroom 8.

Register for hearing audio here👇🏻

forms.mad.uscourts.gov/courtlist.html

First post!!

New reading material:

We explore minimal clinically important differences for function in AD/ADRD trials + consider opportunities to improve outcome measure sensitivity and attention to the priorities of those living with dementia

alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Have efforts from epidemiologists to reduce reliance on P values reduced P hacking? Probably not.

Do decreases in the fraction of P values just below 0.05 necessarily imply less P hacking? No.

#episky #metascience